Year 1936.

Number of radio receivers per 1,000 population: 

  • Algeria: 7 
  • Australia: 131 
  • United States: 189 
  • France: 62 
  • Hungary: 40 
  • Italy: 15 
  • Kenya: 77 
  • New Zealand: 146 
  • Poland: 20 
  • Romania: 8 Czechoslovakia: 63 
  • U.S. S.R. 22 

A new radio centre broadcasting on short wave is set up at the olympic stadium in Zeesen (Germany) on the occasion of the Berlin Olympic Games. 

April: A Radio-Club station is set up in Congo Brazzaville. 

11 July: In Spain a Falangist group seizes the Union-Radio station in Valencia and announces that revolution is imminent. There is widespread fighting for control of Spain's radio stations.

23 September: The International Convention on the use of Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace is signed at Geneva (Switzerland). Hong Kong starts short-wave broadcasting to China and Europe. 

The BBC's first big scoop: a report on the fire at the Crystal Palace (London), with on-the-spot commentary and background noise.







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