1918 in radio
1918 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1918.
Events
- 10 April - Alexander M. Nicolson files a patent for the radio crystal oscillator.
- 22 September - The first radio broadcast from the United Kingdom to Australia is made by AWA to the home of Ernest Fisk in Sydney.
- 11 November - Armistice ends World War I.
- Edwin Howard Armstrong develops the superheterodyne receiver.
- A 200 kW alternator starts operating at Station NFF, the United States Navy station at Somerset, New Jersey, the most powerful radio transmitter at this time.
Births
- 1 January - Wolf Mittler, German broadcaster
- 16 April - Spike Milligan, British comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright
- 26 April - William Hardcastle, British radio news presenter
- 18 June - Isobel Barnett, British broadcasting personality
- 8 August - Salty Brine, American radio host
- 9 August - Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish broadcast dramatist
- 4 September - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster
- 22 September - Betty Wragge, American actress of the Golden Age of Radio
- 26 September - John Zacherle, American television and radio host, singer and voice actor
- 7 September - Billy Graham, American minister whose sermons were broadcast on radio