1 October – In Denmark, Statsradiofonien begins radiating Program II, a second, alternative radio service from six new medium-wave transmitters in various locations around the country. Statsradiofonien's existing long-wave service, broadcast from the Kalundborg transmitter, is known from this date as Program I.
Debuts
1 January – The Archers production series debuts on the BBC Light Programme; it will still be broadcast 65 years later as the world's longest-running radio "soap".[1]
11 July – Alan Freed, the self-proclaimed "King of the Moondoggers," launches "The Moondog House" on WJW (AM) in Cleveland, Ohio (today WKNR). The nighttime program, dedicated to playing rhythm and blues records (of which Freed makes the first known usage of the term "rock 'n roll" to refer to the music), is sponsored by a local record shop owned by Leo Mintz.
18 August – ABC Dancing Party is first broadcast.[2]
21 August – Black Night (a musical variety show) debuts on ABC.[2]
^ abCox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN978-0786438488
^"Meet Frank Sinatra". OTRRpedia. Old Time Radio Researchers Group. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.