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A map showing when radio broadcasting was introduced in each country. 1920s, 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.
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)
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 ), YU: Serbia (R. Belgrade ; Rakovica 1924)
1925
Afghanistan (R. Kabul ), Algeria (8DB Algiers), Byelorussian SSR (RA18 Minsk ), 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)
1926
Armenian SSR (RA49 Yerevan), Azerbaijan SSR (RA45 Baku), Burma (2HZ R. Club Rangoon), China (XOH Harbin ; XKM Nanjing 1928; XNCR Yan'an 1940); 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), 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 (JFAK Taihoku ), Thailand (4PJ Bangkok), VT: Tonkin (R. Sindex, Haiphong ), YU: Slovenia (R. Ljubljana )
1929
Colombia (HJN Bogotá),[ 11] Ecuador (El Prado, Riobamba), Réunion (R. Saint-Denis )
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), Saint Pierre and Miquelon (R. Club ), Tunisia (Tunis Kasbah ), VT: Cochinchina (FZS Saigon)
1931
Kazakh ASSR (RV60 Alma-Ata), Madagascar (R. Tananarive ), Samoa (5ZA Apia), Tajik SSR (RV47 Stalinabad), Vatican City (Vatican R. )
1932
Southern Rhodesia (ZEA Salisbury)
1933
Curaçao (CUROM Willemstad), Macau (CQN/CRY-9), Mozambique (LM Radio , Lourenço Marques), Panama (HPJ5 R. Tembleque, Panama City), Spanish Morocco (EAJ-21 Melilla )
1934
French Polynesia (FO8AA R. Club Oceanien, Papeete ), Mongolia (R. Ulaanbaatar ), Nicaragua (YNLF Managua), Tenerife (EAJ-43 R. Club Tenerife, Santa Cruz)
1935
British Guiana (VP3BG Georgetown > ZFY), Dutch Guiana (AVROS, Paramaribo ), Ethiopia (R. Addis Ababa ), Fiji (ZJV Suva), 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]
1937
Angola (CR6AA Lobito),[ 15] Belgian Congo (OQ2AA R. Léo, Léopoldville), British Honduras (ZIK-2 Belize), Guadeloupe (R. Guadeloupe ), Martinique (R. Martinique ), New Caledonia (FK8AA Nouméa)
1938
Albania (R. Tirana ), Kirghiz SSR (RV6 Frunze; wired earlier), Greater Lebanon (R. Levant ), Libya (ITR Tripoli), Liechtenstein (R. Liechtenstein ), Italian Somaliland (R. Mogadiscio )
1939
Andorra (R. Andorra ), Bangladesh (All India Radio , Dhaka), Baroda (Baroda ), French West Africa [AOF]/Senegal (R. AOF, Dakar), Jamaica (VP5PZ Kingston)[ 16]
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), Sudan (R. Omdurman )
1941
AEF: French Cameroons (R. Douala ), Northern Rhodesia (R. Lusaka ), Palau (JRAK Koror), Xinjiang (R. Dihua ; wired 1935),[ 17] YU: Macedonia (R. Skoplje )
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 )
1944
Gilbert and Ellice Islands (WXLF Tarawa), Guam (WXLI Agana ), New Hebrides (WVUR Espiritu Santo ), Solomon Islands (WVUQ Guadalcanal ), Northern Mariana Islands (WXLD Saipan ), YU: Montenegro (R. Cetinje )
1945
YU: Bosnia and Herzegovina (R. Sarajevo ), YU: Kosovo (R. Pristina ), YU: Vietnam (Voice of Vietnam )
1946
Cambodia (R. Cambodge ), Spanish Guinea (R. Atlántica, Fernando Póo ), Yemen (Sana'a R. > 1955)
1947
Portuguese Guinea (CMQ Bissau), Trinidad and Tobago (R. Trinidad , Port of Spain)
1948
Portuguese India (R. Goa), Nigeria (R. Nigeria ; wired 1935)[ 18]
1949
AOF: Ivory Coast (R. Abidjan ), South West Africa (SABC via sw ), Saudi Arabia (R. Mecca , Jeddah)
Year
Countries and territories
1950
Liberia (ELBC Monrovia), Tibet (R. Lhasa ),[ 19] U.S. Virgin Islands (WSTA Charlotte Amalie)
1951
French Guiana (R. Cayenne ), Kuwait (R. Kuwait ), Laos (RNL , Vientiane), Nepal (R. Nepal , Kathmandu), Tanganyika (Sauti ya Dar es Salaam ), Zanzibar (Sauti ya Unguja)[ 20]
1953
Cyprus (CyBS , Nicosia; BBC 1948), AOF: Dahomey (R. Cotonou ), AOF: French Guinea (R. Conakry ), AOF: French Togoland (R. Lomé )
1954
Sarawak (R. Sarawak, Kuching ), Windward Islands (WIBS, St. George's, Grenada )[ 21]
1955
AEF: Chad (R. Tchad , Fort Lamy), North Borneo (R. Sabah, Jesselton ), Sierra Leone (SLBS , Freetown; wired 1934)
1956
Jordan (Radio Jordan)
1957
Brunei (RTB ), AOF: French Sudan (R. Soudan , Bamako), AOF: Mauritania (R. Mauritanie , Saint-Louis, Senegal )
1958
AEF: Ubangi-Shari (R. Bangui ), Gibraltar (R. Gibraltar ), AOF: Niger (R. Niger , Niamey), Uganda (UBS , Kampala)
1959
AOF: Upper Volta (R. Haute Volta , Ouagadougou), AEF: Gabon (R. Gabon , Libreville), Jeju Island (R. Jeju, Jeju-si )
1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s[ edit ]
Year
Countries and territories
1960
New Guinea (VL9BR Rabaul ), Ruanda-Urundi (R. Usumbura )
1961
Comoros (R. Comores , Moroni ), Spanish Sahara (EAJ-202/203 R. Sahara, El Aaiún ),[ 22] Tonga (ZCO Nukuʻalofa)
1962
Gambia (R. Gambia , Bakau ), Maldives (Malé R. )
1963
Barbados (R. Barbados ; wired 1935)
1964
Lesotho (R. Lesotho , Maseru ), Malawi (MBC , Blantyre )
1965
Swaziland (SBS , Mbabane ), Trucial States (Voice of the Coast , Sharjah )
1966
Kosovo (R. Pristina ; wired 1945)
1967
Saint Helena (Radio Saint Helena )
1968
Nauru (NBS )
1969
Anguilla (R. Anguilla , The Valley)
1970
Oman (R. Sultanate of Oman, Muscat )
1971
Corsica (R. Corsica, Corsica )
1973
Bhutan (Radio NYAB , Thimphu )
1975
Tuvalu (Radio Tuvalu )[ 23]
1983
Eritrea (Radio Asmara , Asmara)
1984
Norfolk Island (Radio Norfolk Island , Kingston)
1993
San Marino (R. San Marino )
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