1923 in radio

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The year 1923 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

Contents 1 Events 2 Debuts 3 Closings 4 Births 5 Deaths

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• January 1 – The Rose Bowl Game is broadcast for the first time, on the Los Angeles station KHJ.
• March 13 – The first speaker-containing radio is produced. Before this, radios had required headphones.
• 1 April – In Vienna the Czeija & Nissl electrical company begins test transmissions from its premises in co-operation with a technical high school, the Technisches Gewerbemusem. This marks the start of radio broadcasting in Austria.

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• March 22 - Hockey Night in Canada is first broadcast on the Toronto Star's private station CFCA.

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[edit] Births

• December 25 – Gordon Baxter (d. 2005), radio personality in Southeast Texas, author and columnist.
• Vida Jane Butler (d. 2007), radio announcer, voice-over artist. Also known as "Janie Joplin."

[edit] Deaths