1922 in radio

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The year 1922 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

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February 8 – President of the United States, Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
February 19 – Ed Wynn becomes the first big vaudeville star to join radio. The first broadcast is Wynn's The Perfect Fool and the station is WJZ, New York. This is also the first time in the world that a radio show is broadcast before a studio audience.^[1].
February 27 – The first National Radio Conference, led by Herbert Hoover, is held in Washington, D.C.
February – The first symphony concert broadcast is made of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra by station WWJ.^[1]
March 22 – Variety magazine prints as its front-page headline "Radio Sweeping Country - 1,000,000 Sets in Use".
May 11 – The first radio sports commentary in Great Britain is made on Station 2LO. Arthur Burrows describes a fight between Ted Kid Lewis and Georges Carpentier at Olympia. No further sports broadcasts are made in Britain until 1927 due to pressure from newspapers.^[2].
May 11 – KGU goes on the air.
June 14 – Warren G. Harding becomes the first United States president heard live on radio, when he dedicates the Francis Scott Key Memorial over the Baltimore radio station WEAR. He was also the first president to own a radio.
July 21 – A limited commercial license is issued for operating radio station WIAE, in Vinton, Iowa, to station manager Marie Zimmerman, making WIAE the first radio station owned and operated by a woman.

14 November – The British Broadcasting Company transmits its first two news bulletins, each read twice ("once quickly and once slowly" – to determine listener reaction).^[3]