Events
- 11 January – Fireside chat: State of the Union Message to Congress.
- 28 March – New York City radio station WQXR (now WQEW) bans singing commercials from being broadcast on its station.
- 30 April – (Six days before D-Day) The American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) is established, transmitting from the United Kingdom in English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian to resistance movements in mainland Europe.
- 5 June – Fireside chat: On the Fall of Rome.
- 12 June – Fireside chat: Opening Fifth War Loan Drive (last fireside chat).
- 25 July – The New York Times acquires the Interstate Broadcasting Company, parent of WQXR (now WQEW) and WQXQ-FM (later WQXR; frequency is now home to WXNY-FM) from John V. L. Hogan for $1 million American dollars. The Times would program the AM station until December 1998, and own the FM station until October 2009.
- 26 October – With fascism defeated in most parts of Italy, the national broadcasting organization Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche (EIAR) is overhauled and renamed Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI), the future Radiotelevisione Italiana.
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