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Overview of the events of 1955 in radio
The year 1955 saw a number of significant events in
radio broadcasting
history.
Events
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- 2 May ? Opening at
Wrotham
,
Kent
, of the
United Kingdom
's first
VHF
/
FM
transmitters.
- September (
Labor Day
weekend) ? First
Sig Alert
broadcast in California.
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- 22 September ? The character
Grace Archer
dies in the
BBC
radio serial
The Archers
; a spoiler for the launch of
ITV
in the UK on the same day.
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- 20 October ?
Disc jockey
Bill Randle
of
WERE
(
Cleveland
) is the key presenter of a concert at
Brooklyn High School (Ohio)
, featuring
Pat Boone
and
Bill Haley & His Comets
and opening with
Elvis Presley
, not only Elvis's first performance north of the
Mason?Dixon line
, but also his first filmed performance, for a documentary on Randle titled
The Pied Piper of Cleveland
.
- 17 November ? Creation of the
Communaute des radios publiques de langue francaise
(CRPLF) - an association of the French-language public broadcasters of
France
,
Switzerland
,
Belgium
, and
Canada
, later to become, in 2002, the
Radios francophones publiques
(RFP).
- 26 November ? In
Sweden
, the national public broadcaster Radiotjanst (modern-day
Sveriges Radio
) begins transmission, via
FM
, of its
second radio channel
in
Stockholm
,
Gothenburg
,
Malmo
, and
Orebro
.
Debuts
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Closings
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Births
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- January ?
Dirk Maggs
,
English
radio producer.
- February 10 ?
Jim Cramer
,
American
television personality,
hedge fund
manager and bestselling author.
- February 23 ?
Tom Bodett
, American author, voice actor, radio host and spokesman for hotel chain
Motel 6
.
- April 5 ?
Janice Long
, born Janice Chegwin, English disc jockey (died
2021
)
- May 22 ?
Dale Winton
, English broadcast presenter (died
2018
).
- June 1 ?
Tony Snow
, American journalist, political commentator and anchor (
NPR
,
The Rush Limbaugh Show
,
Fox News Radio
) (died
2008
).
- July 9 ?
Fred Norris
, American radio personality.
- July 19 ? Karen Cheryl, French singer, actress and broadcast presenter.
- October 4 ?
Dale Connelly
, American co-host (with
Tom Keith
, a.k.a. Jim Ed Poole) of
The Morning Show
on
Minnesota Public Radio
.
- Approximate date ?
Christopher Douglas
, English comedy actor-writer.
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