1927 in radio

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The year 1927 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

Events

January 1 – NBC makes the first ever coast-to-coast network radio broadcast of a Rose Bowl Game.
January 21 – A performance in Chicago, Illinois, of Faust is the first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network.
February 23 – The Federal Radio Commission (later to be replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) is created by Calvin Coolidge.
4 March – First broadcast from radio station Polskie Radio Wilno in Vilnius (then in Poland, now in Lithuania).
11 March – Station PCJ, based at the Philips Laboratories in Eindhoven, makes the first short-wave broadcasts from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies.
31 March – the Philips company scores a publicity coup when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands addresses the colonial population via its PCJ transmitter.^[1]
6 May – Türk Telsiz-Telefon Anonim Şirketi ("Turkish Wireless Telephony Ltd") begins radio broadcasting in Istanbul.
1 July – 23 Canadian radio stations combine forces to make the country's first nationwide broadcast, covering celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation.^[2]