1943 in Radio - Events

Events

  • 2 May: Fireside chat: On the Coal Crisis.
  • 10 May: National Broadcasting Co. v. United States is decided, allowing the FCC broad power to regulate the operations of broadcast networks, which results in NBC being forced to sell off their secondary NBC Blue Network. Gradually, any and all references to "NBC" would be removed from all Blue Network programming or promotions, and "NBC Red" would become known just as NBC Radio.
  • 13 May: In the Netherlands, an ordinance issued by the German occupiers requires the surrender to the authorities of all radio sets.
  • 28 July: Fireside chat: On Progress of War and Plans for Peace.
  • 8 September: Fireside chat: Opening Third War Loan Drive.
  • 12 October: Edward Noble's American Broadcasting System offer to purchase the Blue Network and its O&Os from NBC gets approval from the FCC; Noble's lone station prior to the purchase, WMCA in New York, is sold off.
  • 4 November: Abbott and Costello resume their NBC Radio programme after a six-month hiatus for health reasons (Lou Costello had battled a severe case of rheumatic fever). While rehearsing, Costello learned that his youngest son accidentally drowned in the family pool, just two days before his first birthday. The show went on as scheduled, with no one in the audience having any knowledge of what happened until the end, when Costello abruptly rushed from the stage in tears. Partner Bud Abbott delivered the tragic news live over the entire network to the shocked studio audience.
  • 3 December: Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over CBS describing a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid on Berlin.
  • 24 December: Fireside chat: On Tehran and Cairo Conferences.

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