Timeline of the introduction of radio in countries

A map showing when radio broadcasting was introduced in each country.
  1910s, 1st half, or earlier (33)
  1920s, 2nd half (53)
  1930s (56)
  1940s (35)
  1950s (27)
  1960s or later (17)
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This is a list of when the first radio broadcasts to the public occurred in the mentioned countries and territories. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not referred to; neither are license dates or dates of the official opening.

Basis for each entry is the time of introduction. Listed are independent countries, dependent territories and territories within a country only if they became independent later or if it is a large country and there is a vast time difference with the introduction in different parts.

Each entry comprises: the flag linked to the country or territory, the name of the country or territory and, in parentheses, the designation of the radio station (either by call sign or by name, linked to a main article), its city and some additional information.

History

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1910s and 1920s

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Year Countries and territories
1916  United States (2XG New York City; 8MK Detroit > WWJ & 8XK Pittsburgh > KDKA 1920)
1919  Netherlands (PCGG The Hague; HDO Hilversum 1923)
1920  Argentina (LOR Buenos Aires),  Canada (XWA Montreal > 9AM > CFCF)
1921  Australia (2CM Sydney), France (R. Tour Eiffel, Paris),  Mexico (TND Monterrey)
1922  Brazil (SPE Rio de Janeiro),[1]  Cuba (2LC Havana, followed by PWX),  New Zealand (R. Dunedin > 4AB),  Paraguay (CXZ-27 Asunción; ZP1 1926),  Philippines (KZKZ Manila),  Puerto Rico (WKAQ San Juan),  United Kingdom (2MT Writtle;[2] 2LO London),  Uruguay (CW90A R. Paradizábal, Montevideo;[3] CWOA 1927),  Victoria (R. Melbourne)
1923  Belgium (R. Bruxelles),  Chile (CBC R. Chilena Santiago),  Czechoslovakia (Radiojournal, Prague),  Germany (Funk-Stunde, Berlin),  British Raj (2FV R. Club Bombay > IBC 1927),  Shanghai (XRO Shanghai),  South Africa (JB Johannesburg),   Switzerland (2HB Lausanne)[4]
1924  Austria (RAVAG, Vienna),  Dominican Republic (HIH Santo Domingo; HIX 1928),[5]  Italy (IRO Rome URI),  Luxemburg (R. Luxembourg),  Newfoundland (8WMC St. John's > VOWR),  Singapore (1SE AWSM > ZHI 1933),[6]  Soviet Union (Moscow: RA1 Komintern, RA2 MGSPS),  Spain (EAJ2 Madrid, EAJ1 Barcelona), Kingdom of Yugoslavia YU: Serbia (R. Belgrade; Rakovica 1924),  South Australia (R. Adelaide)
1925  Afghanistan (R. Kabul),  Algeria (8DB Algiers),  Byelorussian SSR (RA18 Minsk), British Ceylon Ceylon (Colombo R.),  Denmark (Statsradiofonien, Copenhagen),  Dutch East Indies (BRX, Batavia > NIROM),[7]  Hungary (Magyar Telefonhírmondó és Rádió Rt., Budapest; wired Hírmondó 1893),  Japan (JOAK Tokyo), Kwantung (JQAK Dairen),  Latvia (Radiofon Riga),  Norway (Kringkastingsselskapet, Oslo),  Peru (OAX Lima),  Portugal (P1AA Lisbon),  Sweden (Radiotjänst, Stockholm),  Ukrainian SSR (RA21 Kharkov),  Western Australia (R. Perth)
1926  Armenian SSR (RA49 Yerevan),  Azerbaijan SSR (RA45 Baku),  Burma (2HZ R. Club Rangoon),  China (XOH Harbin; Republic of China (1912–1949) XKM Nanjing 1928; China XNCR Yan'an 1940); Czechoslovakia CZ: Slovakia (Radiojournal, Bratislava),  Danzig (Landessender Danzig),  Egypt (R. Farouk et al., Cairo),[8]  El Salvador (AQM San Salvador),  Estonia (R. Ringhääling, Tallinn),  Finland (Yle, Helsinki; 3NB Tampere 1924),  Georgian SSR (RA27 Tbilisi),  Iceland (H.f. Útvarp, Reykjavík),  Ireland (2RN Dublin),  Lithuania (Lietuvos radijas, Kaunas),  Poland (Polskie R., Warsaw),  Venezuela (AYRE Caracas), Kingdom of Yugoslavia YU: Croatia (R. Zagreb)
1927  Bolivia (CPX La Paz; CP1AA 1922),  Costa Rica (TI4NRH Heredia),  Kenya (VQ7LO Nairobi), Korea, South (JODK Keijo), Turkey (İstanbul Radyosu),  Turkmen SSR (RA6 Ashgabat),  Uzbek SSR (RA27 Tashkent)[9]
1928  Greece (Thessaloniki; YRE 1938),  Honduras (HRB La Voz del Trópico, Tegucigalpa),  Hong Kong (GOW), Morocco (R. Maroc),  Pakistan (YMCA, Lahore; Karachi 1926),[10]  Rumania (R. Bukarest),  Taiwan under Japanese rule (JFAK Taihoku),  Thailand (4PJ Bangkok), VT: Tonkin (R. Sindex, Haiphong), Kingdom of Yugoslavia YU: Slovenia (R. Ljubljana),  Tasmania (R. Hobart),  Baja California (XEY/R. Mexicali)
1929  Colombia (HJN Bogotá),[11]  Ecuador (El Prado, Riobamba), France Réunion (R. Saint-Denis),  Queensland (R. Brisbane)

1930s

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Year Countries and territories
1930  Bermuda (TJW Hamilton),[12]  Bulgaria (Rodno R., Sofia),  Guatemala (TGW La Voz de Guatemala, Guatemala City),  Malaysia (KLAWS, Kuala Lumpur), France Saint Pierre and Miquelon (R. Club), Tunisia (Tunis Kasbah), VT: Cochinchina (FZS Saigon),  Australia ( Australian Capital Territory (R. Canberra))
1931 Kazakh ASSR (RV60 Alma-Ata),  Madagascar (R. Tananarive),  Samoa (5ZA Apia), Tajik SSR (RV47 Stalinabad),  Vatican City (Vatican R.),  Puebla (XHTM/R. Puebla)
1932  Southern Rhodesia (ZEA Salisbury),  Nord (FBKI R. Lille)
1933 Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies Curaçao (CUROM Willemstad), Portugal Macau (CQN/CRY-9), Portugal Mozambique (LM Radio, Lourenço Marques),  Panama (HPJ5 R. Tembleque, Panama City), Spanish Morocco (EAJ-21 Melilla)
1934 French Third Republic French Polynesia (FO8AA R. Club Oceanien, Papeete),  Lebanon (R. East),  Mongolia (R. Ulaanbaatar),  Nicaragua (YNLF Managua), Tenerife (EAJ-43 R. Club Tenerife, Santa Cruz),  Australia ( Northern Territory (R. Darwin))
1935  British Guiana (VP3BG Georgetown > ZFY), Dutch East Indies Dutch Guiana (AVROS, Paramaribo),  Ethiopia (R. Addis Ababa),  Fiji (ZJV Suva), French Third Republic French Equatorial Africa [AEF]/Congo (R. Club Brazzaville),  Haiti (HHK Port-au-Prince),  Hyderabad (VUV Deccan R.),  Leeward Islands (VP2LO Caribbean Broadcasting Service, Basseterre > ZIZ), Malta (Radju Malta, Valletta),  Mysore (VU7MC Ākāśavāṇī),  Papua (4PM Port Moresby)[13]
1936  Bahamas (ZNS Nassau),  Botswana (ZNB Mafeking),  Iraq (R. Baghdad), Korea, North (JBBK Heijō), Las Palmas (EAJ-50 R. Las Palmas),  Palestine (PBS, Jerusalem/Ramallah),  Tyva (R. Kyzyl),[14]  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (R. Kingstown, Kingstown)
1937 Portugal Angola (CR6AA Lobito),[15]  Belgian Congo (OQ2AA R. Léo, Léopoldville),  British Honduras (ZIK-2 Belize), French Third Republic Guadeloupe (R. Guadeloupe),  Martinique (R. Martinique), French Third Republic New Caledonia (FK8AA Nouméa)
1938  Albania (R. Tirana),  Kirghiz SSR (RV6 Frunze; wired earlier),  Libya (ITR Tripoli),  Liechtenstein (R. Liechtenstein),  Saint Lucia (R. Castries),  Italian East Africa (R. Mogadiscio, wired and experimental 1951),  Bas-Rhin (FBGT R. Strasbourg)
1939  Andorra (R. Andorra),  Antigua and Barbuda (R. St. John's, Windward Islands),  Bangladesh (All India Radio, Dhaka),  Baroda (Baroda), French Third Republic French West Africa [AOF]/Senegal (R. AOF, Dakar),  Jamaica (VP5PZ Kingston),[16]  Rhône (FBRF R. Lyon), Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Kaliningrad Oblast (R. Kaliningrad)

1940s

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Year Countries and territories
1940  Bahrain (R. Bahrain > Arabic 1955),  Gold Coast (ZOY Accra; wired 1935),  Iran (R. Tehran),  Aden South Yemen (ZNR Aden R. > 1954), Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Sudan (R. Omdurman)
1941 France AEF: French Cameroons (R. Douala),  Northern Rhodesia (R. Lusaka), Palau (JRAK Koror), East Turkestan Xinjiang (R. Dihua; wired 1935),[17] Kingdom of Yugoslavia YU: Macedonia (R. Skoplje), Cape Verde Cape Verde (R. Praia),  Gironde (FBXE R. Bordeaux),  Veneto (R. Veneto)
1942  American Samoa (WVUV Leone),  Falkland Islands (Falklands R.),  Greenland (Grønlands R., Godthåb),  Syria (R. Damas)
1943  British Somaliland (R. Hargeisa),  French Somaliland (R. Djibouti),  Monaco (R. Monte Carlo),  Travancore (Thiruvananthapuram),  Tatar ASSR (R. Kazan),  Crimean ASSR (R. Simfeopol)
1944  Gilbert and Ellice Islands (WXLF Tarawa),  Guam (WXLI Agana),  New Hebrides (WVUR Espiritu Santo), Solomon Islands (WVUQ Guadalcanal),  Northern Mariana Islands (WXLD Saipan), Democratic Federal Yugoslavia YU: Montenegro (R. Cetinje),  Sardinia (R. Sardinia)
1945 Democratic Federal Yugoslavia YU: Bosnia and Herzegovina (R. Sarajevo), Democratic Federal Yugoslavia YU: Kosovo (R. Pristina), North Vietnam YU: Vietnam (Voice of Vietnam),  Haute-Garonne (FBGJ R. Toulouse)
1946 Cambodia (R. Cambodge), Spanish Guinea (R. Atlántica, Fernando Póo),  Yemen (Sana'a R. > 1955),  Marshall Islands (R. Majuro),  Puy-de-Dôme (FBKU R. Clermont-Ferrand),  Umbria (R. Umbria)
1947  Portuguese Guinea (CMQ Bissau),  Trinidad and Tobago (R. Trinidad, Port of Spain),  Federated States of Micronesia (R. Palikir; wired 1939),  Ille-et-Vilaine (FBWP R. Rennes),  Tuscany (R. Tuscany)
1948  Portuguese India (R. Goa),  Nigeria (R. Nigeria; wired 1935),[18]  Cher (FBTF R. Bourges)
1949 France AOF: Ivory Coast (R. Abidjan),  South West Africa (SABC via sw),  Saudi Arabia (R. Mecca, Jeddah),  Karakalpak ASSR Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (R. Nukus),  Calvados (FBGQ R. Caen)

1950s

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Year Countries and territories
1950  Liberia (ELBC Monrovia),  Tibet (R. Lhasa),[19]  U.S. Virgin Islands (WSTA Charlotte Amalie),  Loire-Atlantique (FBJL R. Nantes), Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Sakhalin Oblast (R. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
1951 France French Guiana (R. Cayenne),  Italian Somaliland (R. Mogadishu; wired 1938),  Kuwait (R. Kuwait), Laos (RNL, Vientiane),    Nepal (R. Nepal, Kathmandu),  Tanganyika (Sauti ya Dar es Salaam),  Zanzibar (Sauti ya Unguja)[20]
1952  Sarthe (FBYF R. Le Mans)
1953  Cyprus (CyBS, Nicosia; BBC 1948), France AOF: French Dahomey (R. Cotonou), France AOF: French Guinea (R. Conakry), AOF: French Togoland (R. Lomé),  Friuli-Venezia Giulia (R. Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
1954  Sarawak (R. Sarawak, Kuching),  Windward Islands (WIBS, St. George's, Grenada),[21]  Calabria (R. Calabria)
1955 France AEF: Chad (R. Tchad, Fort Lamy),  North Borneo (R. Sabah, Jesselton), Sierra Leone (SLBS, Freetown; wired 1934),  Alpes-Maritimes (FBVZ R. Nice)
1956  Jordan (Radio Jordan),  Côte-d'Or (FBDO R. Dijon),  Aruba (R. Oranjestad; wired 1937)
1957  Brunei (RTB), France AOF: French West Africa (R. Soudan, Bamako), France AOF: Mauritania (R. Mauritanie, Saint-Louis, Senegal),  Chile ( Easter Island (R. Hanga Roa)),  Meurthe-et-Moselle (FBNH R. Nancy)
1958 France AEF: Ubangi-Shari (R. Bangui),  Gibraltar (R. Gibraltar), AOF: Niger (R. Niger, Niamey),  Uganda (UBS, Kampala),  Haute-Vienne (FBTG R. Limoges)
1959 AOF: Upper Volta (R. Haute Volta, Ouagadougou), AEF: Gabon (R. Gabon, Libreville), South Korea Jeju Island (R. Jeju, Jeju-si),  Somme (FBSP R. Amiens)

1960s

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Year Countries and territories
1960  New Guinea (VL9BR Rabaul), Ruanda-Urundi (R. Usumbura)
1961 France Comoros (R. Comores, Moroni),  Spanish Sahara (EAJ-202/203 R. Sahara, El Aaiún),[22]  Tonga (ZCO Nukuʻalofa),  Antarctica (United States McMurdo Station (R. McMurdo))
1962  Gambia (R. Gambia, Bakau), Maldives (Malé R.)
1963  Barbados (R. Barbados; wired 1935),  Tristan da Cunha (R. Edinburgh of the Seven Seas)
1964  Lesotho (R. Lesotho, Maseru),  Malawi (MBC, Blantyre),  Pohnpei (R. Kolonia)
1965 United Kingdom Swaziland (SBS, Mbabane), Trucial States (Voice of the Coast, Sharjah)
1966  Kosovo (R. Pristina; wired 1945)
1967 United Kingdom Saint Helena (Radio Saint Helena),  Sabah (R. Kota Kinabalu)
1968  Nauru (NBS), Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Abkhaz ASSR (Radio Sokhumi)
1969  Anguilla (R. Anguilla, The Valley), Turkey Northern Cyprus (North Nicosia Radio)

1970s

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Year Countries and territories
1970  Oman (R. Sultanate of Oman, Muscat), Portugal Azores (R. Ponta Delgada)
1971  Corsica (R. Corsica, Corsica),  Venda (R. Thohoyandou)
1972  Saint Barthélemy (R. Gustavia),  Nakhichevan ASSR (R. Nakhchivan)
1973  Bhutan (Radio NYAB, Thimphu),  Chuuk (Radio Weno)
1974  Niue (R. Alofi),  Transkei (R. Umtata)
1975  Tuvalu (Radio Tuvalu),[23]  KwaZulu (R. Pietermaritzburg)
1976  Bophuthatswana (R. Mamabatho, shutdown 1993)
1977  Yap (R. Colonia)
1978 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia YU: Republika Srpska (R. Sarajevo, wired 1945)
1979  German-speaking Community (German Speaking Radio),  Ciskei (R. Bisho)

1980s

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Year Countries and territories
1980  Ceuta (R. Ceuta),  Lebowa (R. Lebowa)
1981  Transnistria (R. Tiraspol),  KaNgwane (R. Louieville)
1982  Melilla (R. Melilla),  Gazankulu (R. Giyani),  Kosrae (R. Tofol)
1983  Eritrea (Radio Asmara, Asmara),  Gagauzia (R. Comrat)
1984  Norfolk Island (Radio Norfolk Island, Kingston),  QwaQwa (R. Phuthaditjhaba)
1985 Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (R. Stepanakert)
1986  South Ossetia (R. Tskhinvali)
1987  Akrotiri and Dhekelia (R. Akrotiri and R. Dhekelia),  Sint Maarten (R. Philipsburg)
1988  Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (R. Sarajevo, wired 1945)
1989  Montserrat (R. Plymouth)

1990s

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Year Countries and territories
1992  Tokelau (R. Nukunonu)
1993  San Marino (R. San Marino)
1994  Collectivity of Saint Martin (R. Marigot)
1995  Somaliland (R. Hargeisa; wired 1944)
1996  Saba Department (R. The Bottom)
1997 Morocco Southern Provinces (R. Laayoune)
1999  Pitcairn Islands (R. Adamstown)

2000s

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Year Countries and territories
2000  Netherlands ( Bonaire (R. Kralendijk))
2002  Cocos (Keeling) Islands (R. West Island)
2004  South Sudan (R. Juba)
2006  Donetsk People's Republic (R. Donetsk)
2007  Luhansk People's Republic (R. Luhansk)
2008  Sint Eustatius (R. Oranjestad)

2010s

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Year Countries and territories
2012  Chinland (R. Chinland)
2015  Puntland (R. Puntland)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Ferraretto, Luiz Artur. De 1919 a 1923, os primeiros momentos do rádio no Brasil (2014)
  2. ^ Marconi Books - 2MT Writtle
  3. ^ CW90A - 90th Anniversary of the Uruguayan Radio Broadcasting
  4. ^ Radio-Geschichte Schweiz
  5. ^ Roorda, Eric Paul. Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic, p. 187, at Google Books (2016)
  6. ^ Lin, Chua Ai. The Story of Singapore Radio (1924-41) (2016)
  7. ^ Eighty Years of Radio in Indonesia (Wavescan, 2003)
  8. ^ Abdel Rahman, Haidi M. K. Women, Regional Radio and Development p. 30 (2010)
  9. ^ "Радио в Узбекистане". Archived from the original on 2016-03-29. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  10. ^ Karachi in Pakistan (Wavescan update, 2010)
  11. ^ "Radio Nacional, 80 años registrando la historia de Colombia". Señal Memoria (in Spanish). Bogotá: RTVC. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  12. ^ Mediumwave broadcasting in Bermuda (Wavescan, 2009)
  13. ^ Port Moresby on Shortwave (Wavescan, 2009)
  14. ^ Тувинскому радио - 70 лет
  15. ^ Radio em Angola
  16. ^ History of Radio Jamaica Ltd.
  17. ^ 胡少红. 民国时期不同治疆思想下的新闻事业 (2014)
  18. ^ Adejunmobi, Jonathan Adegoke. The development of radio broadcasting in Nigeria, West Africa p. 45 (1974)
  19. ^ Richardson, Irene. History of Tibetan and exile radio (2009)
  20. ^ Sturmer, Martin. The media history of Tanzania (2008)
  21. ^ The Grenada Revolution Online: Radio
  22. ^ Montes Fernández, Francisco José. Breve historia de Radio Sahara (2013)
  23. ^ Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (1988). Handbook - Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.

Bibliography

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