1938 in radio

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The year 1938 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

Contents 1 Events 2 Debuts 3 Closings 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• March 13 – CBS carries the first-ever point-to-point news roundup, including Edward R. Murrow's first live report, as part of its coverage of the Anschluss in Austria.
• 15 March – The BBC begins its Portuguese and Spanish service for Latin America.
• April 14 – Fireside chat: On Economic Conditions
• June 24 – Fireside chat: On Party Primaries
• September 12 - Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn begins his famous marathon of news bulletins on the CBS network covering the intensifying Czech Crisis over the Sudetenland. The first bulletin is a summation of Hitler's closing address to the Tenth (and, as it would prove, last) Party Congress of the Nazi party in Nuremberg. Kaltenborn would eat and sleep in the studio, making periodic updates, until the signing of the Munich Agreement on September 29.
• October 30 – Orson Welles's radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds is broadcast on CBS, causing panic in various parts of the United States.
• November 10 – Kate Smith sings "God Bless America" for the first time on her radio show, a day before Armistice Day.

[edit] Debuts

• 3 January – The BBC Empire Service, begun in 1932, transmits its first programme in a foreign language: Arabic.
• January 3 – The soap opera Woman in White (1938-1948) debuts on NBC.
• January 17 – Stepmother (1938-1942) debuts on CBS.

[edit] Closings

[edit] Births

• January 1 - Clay Cole, radio disk jockey and television host, best known for his dance program, The Clay Cole Show
• January 21 - Wolfman Jack (d. 1995), famed disc jockey, television personality and film actor.
• September 8 - Adrian Cronauer, lawyer and former radio disc jockey from the United States who inspired the film Good Morning Vietnam.
• December 16 - Frank Deford, senior contributing writer for Sports Illustrated, author, and sports commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition.
• Ron Della Chiesa, Boston-area radio personality.

[edit] Deaths