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The year 1932 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

Contents 1 Events 2 Debuts 3 Closings 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• March 1 – Both NBC and CBS go to Hopewell, New Jersey to provide live coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
• March 24 – A radio variety show is broadcast from a moving train for the first time, when Belle Baker hosts a show on a train traveling around the New York area. It was broadcast on the New York City station WABC. She talked first about the weather then, about local news regarding home-towns or stations of the train with the radio.
• 14 May – The BBC moves into its new headquarters, Broadcasting House in London.
• 26 May – The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act is passed, providing for the establishment of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission.
• 1 July – Following nationalization of the Australian Broadcasting Company, the Australian Prime Minister, Joseph Lyons, officially inaugurates transmissions from the twelve stations of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, forerunner of today's Australian Broadcasting Corporation.^[1]
• 19 December – The BBC Empire Service (ancestor of the BBC World Service) begins transmissions.

[edit] Debuts

• January 4 – The Carnation Contented Hour debuts on NBC Red Network.
• January 12 – Ed Sullivan joins CBS.
• February 15 – George Burns and Gracie Allen become regulars on The Guy Lombardo Show on CBS.
• March 29 – Jack Benny is heard on the radio for the first time on Ed Sullivan's show.
• May 2 – The Jack Benny Program debuts on the NBC Blue Network.
• June 29 – The comedy serial Vic and Sade debuts on NBC Blue Network.
• October 23 – Fred Allen's first radio program, the Linit Bath Club Revue, debuts on CBS.

[edit] Closings

[edit] Births

• September 13 - Dick Biondi, Radio Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Top 40 and Oldies disc jockey.
• December 9 - Morton Downey, Jr. (d. 2001), controversial and influential American radio and television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the "trash talk show" format.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References

1. ^ abc.net - History of ABC Radio

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