A CONTEXTUAL TIMELINE
1919
Britain and Spain enacted laws similar to America's Wireless Ship Act of 1910.
1920
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company engineer Frank Conrad built the first 100-watt radio station in Pittsburgh and started operating it under the call-name KDKA. This was the world’s first commercial radio broadcasting station.
14 Feb 1922
The Marconi Company was formally authorized to broadcast and, on 18 October, formed the British Broadcasting Company in collaboration with the General Electric Company and a number of other smaller wireless equipment manufacturers. Their transmissions from Marconi House in London started on 14 November 1922.
17 June 1922 David Sarnoff proposed national, rather than local, radio networks as the way forward for broadcasting in the United States. 1922
The Malta Amateur Radio Society was established; the name was changed to Malta Amateur Radio League in 1933.
18 Jan 1923
The BBC was officially granted a licence to broadcast by the Post Office.
28 Sept 1923 The first issue of the Radio Times was published. It featured listings for BBC radio programmes. 5 Oct 1924
First formal radio transmissions from Italy featured a speech by Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. The Italian Government officially established the Unione Radiofonica Italiana (URI) one week later.
1925
The British Broadcasting Company, under General Manager John Reith, received a broadcasting monopoly through the Broadcasting Committee of Inquiry, which it enjoyed for the next thirty years.
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