1929 in British radio
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1929.
Events[]
- 6 November – Week in Westminster debuts on the BBC Home Service; it will still be running more than 90 years later.
- Tatsfield Receiving Station – formally the BBC Engineering Measurement and Receiving Station[1] – begins operation on the North Downs in Surrey.[2]
- Welsh language radio begins to be broadcast from the BBC's Daventry transmitter.[3]
Births[]
- 27 April – Derek Chinnery (died 2015), British radio controller.
- 25 September – Ronnie Barker (died 2015), English comic actor.
- 25 November – Tim Gudgin (died 2017), English sports results announcer.
- 29 November – Derek Jameson (died 2012), English newspaper editor and broadcaster.
- 28 December – Brian Redhead (died 1994), English radio news presenter.
References[]
- ^ "The BBC Engineering Measurement and Receiving Station at Tatsfield" (PDF). BBC Engineering Information Department. 1961.
- ^ Pawley, Edward (1972). BBC Engineering 1922–1972. BBC Publications. ISBN 0563121270.
- ^ Briggs, Asa (1995). The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume II: The Golden Age of Wireless. Oxford University Press. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-19-212930-7.
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