1923 in radio

Events

• 1 January - In the United States the American football Rose Bowl Game is broadcast for the first time, on Los Angeles station KHJ.
• 4 January - The first network broadcast is made when WEAF in New York City and WNAC in Boston simultaneously broadcast a saxophone solo.
• 8 January - First outside broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company: a British National Opera Company production of The Magic Flute from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
• 18 January - The United Kingdom Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast.
• 20 January - Inauguration of Paris PTT, a station organized by and broadcasting from the École supérieure des postes et télégraphes.
• 8 February - Norman Albert calls the first live broadcast of an ice hockey game, the third period of an Ontario Hockey League Intermediate playoff game, on Toronto radio station CFCA.
• 13 March - Production of the first radio set incorporating a loudspeaker. All previously produced sets have required the use of headphones.
• 14 March - Pete Parker calls the play-by-play of the first ice hockey game ever broadcast on the radio in its entirety, between the Regina Capitals and the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League.
• 1 April - In Vienna the Czeija & Nissl electrical company begins test transmissions from its premises in co-operation with a technical high school, the Technisches Gewerbemusem. This marks the start of radio broadcasting in Austria.
• 18 May - The first regular radio broadcasts begin in Czechoslovakia.
• 1 June - The publicly owned Canadian National Railways establishes the CNR Radio network to supply programming on its fleet of passenger cars; it is the first national network in North America and precursor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
• 21 July - The Dutch radio manufacturing company Nederlandsche Seintoestellen Fabriek begins regular radio broadcasting in the Netherlands.
• 28 September - First publication of the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times, in Britain.
• 29 October - Regular radio broadcasting in Germany officially begins with the first evening transmission from the Sendestelle Berlin installed at the Vox-Haus in Potsdamer Platz.
• 8 November - First BBC broadcast in Welsh
• 23 November
• *Australia's first licensed radio station, 2SB, begins transmission in Sydney.
• *In Belgium, French-speaking station Radio Bruxelles begins broadcasting.
• 2 December - First BBC broadcast in Gaelic
• 31 December
• * KDKA in Pittsburgh conducts the first transcontinental voice broadcast with a station in Manchester, England.
• * The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben from London for the first time.

Debuts

• 22 March - Hockey Night in Canada is first broadcast on the Toronto Star's private station CFCA.

Births

• 26 January - Patricia Hughes, English continuity announcer
• 2 March - Jean Metcalfe, English radio broadcaster
• 9 May - Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer
• 10 October - Nicholas Parsons, British entertainer
• 21 November - Margaret Lyons, born Keiko Margaret Inouye, Canadian broadcast executive
• 22 December - John Ebdon, British radio broadcaster, Graecophile, author and director of the London Planetarium
• 25 December - Gordon Baxter, American radio personality, author and columnist