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In 1935, American radio commentator Walter Winchell coined the term " disc jockey " ( the combination of disc, referring to the disc records, and jockey, which is an operator of a machine ) as a description of radio announcer Martin Block, the first announcer to become a star.
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1935 and American
The issue was sufficiently potent in 1935 to spark secession from the American Federation of Labor of its industrial union members.
The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).
Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.
* 1935 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Mamas & the Papas ) ( d. 2001 )
1935 and radio
From May 1934 until October 1935, Armstrong conducted the first large scale field tests of his FM radio technology from a laboratory constructed by RCA on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building.
In 1934 the Frenchman Émile Girardeau stated he was building an obstacle-locating radio apparatus " conceived according to the principles stated by Tesla " and obtained a patent for a working system, a part of which was installed on the Normandie liner in 1935.
Obituaries of Simon Dee ( 1935 – 2009 ), the radio and television presenter, stated that his " Sixties grooviness " made him the inspiration for the character.
Despite strong newspaper industry opposition, UP started to sell news to the new and competitive radio medium in 1935, years before competitor AP, controlled by the newspaper industry, did likewise.
The original music score was composed by Albert Hay Malotte, an American composer who is best known for his musical setting of The Lord's Prayer, composed in 1935, and introduced on radio that year by John Charles Thomas.
By 1935 a hard wired cable-based radio network was later deployed throughout the country to broadcast the Rediffusion service directly from London to homes and business across Barbados.
Mysore was the location of the first private radio broadcasting station in India when Akashavani ( voice from the sky ) was established in the city on 10 September 1935 by M. V.
It premiered on NBC in 1935 and continued until its demise in 1959, long after radio had ceased to be the dominant form of entertainment in American popular culture.
The show premiered on NBC April 16, 1935, and though it took three seasons to become an irrevocable hit, it became the country's top-rated radio series.
In the spring of 1935, Long undertook a national speaking tour and regular radio appearances, attracting large crowds and increasing his stature.
The series disappeared from CBS airwaves on March 27, 1935, due to Street & Smith's insistence that the radio storyteller be completely replaced by the master crime-fighter described in Walter B. Gibson's ongoing pulps.
The Green Goddess was adapted as a one-hour radio play on the January 6, 1935 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater, starring Claude Rains.
In 1935 NHK began a shortwave radio service for listeners overseas known as ‘‘ Radio Japan ’’ until the 1940s.
Ingrid also appeared on the radio in 1935, where she read a poem, something which was also given much attention.
He returned to Ohio and played around the American midwest-Toledo, Cleveland, Detroit, Saint Louis and Chicago-in the mid-1930s and played on the Fleischman Hour radio program hosted by Rudy Vallee in 1935.
" Here's something new .... " pianist Hank Jones remembers thinking when he first heard Art Tatum on radio in 1935, " .... they have devised this trick to make people believe that one man is playing the piano, when I know at least three people are playing.
That same year it released a Beethoven bicentennial set that included the 1935 Missa Solemnis with the Philharmonic and LPs of the 1948 televised concert of the ninth symphony taken from an FM radio transcription, complete with Ben Grauer's comments.
It has also been used by broadcast programs which featured hit ( sheet music and record ) tunes such as Your Hit Parade, a show which aired on radio and television in the United States from 1935 through the 1950s.
Among the intense activity of radio broadcasting stations between 1925 and 1935, we highlight CT1AA, Rádio Clube Português, Rádio Graça and Rádio Luso-this last one quickly becoming popular for favouring fado.
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