The year 1926 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.
Events
1 January – 2RN, the first radio broadcasting station in the Irish Free State, goes on air.[1]
16 January – A British Broadcasting Companyradio play by Ronald Knox about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.[2]
VPRO (the Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep) is established in the Netherlands.
12 June – Radio Kaunas begins regular broadcasting in Lithuania.
1 July – American Telephone & Telegraph exits the station ownership realm, selling off WEAF, WCAP, and their mini-network, to RCA. The latter station is merged into time-share WRC (AM) and takes the latter stations' callsign.
13 September – Formation of the National Broadcasting Company by RCA is announced in newspaper advertisements around the country.
^ abCox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN978-0-7864-3848-8.