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Year 1925.

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 Radio broadcasting starts in Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Mexico.  The Union internationale des radio-amateurs ( International Union of Radio Amateurs ) is formed in Paris.  25 March : Independent companies funded by private capital open the first Japanese radio stations in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.  3 April : The International Broadcasting Union (UIR) is formed in Geneva under the auspices of the League of Nations. Association Radio-Luxembourg is established with a 50-watt transmitter in the Grand Duchy.  20 June : The first Peruvianradio station (OAX) is founded .  August : Polskie Radio iscreated in Warsaw (Poland) as a limited liability company (40% of the shares are state-owned).  The first regular radio service in a British colony opens in Ceylon.  The United Kingdom's most powerful transmitter is opened at Daventry. It covers 85% of the population and transmits on long Wireless being used in central Africa (1924). Long wave the B...