Year 1940.
German radio broadcasts a single national programme. 24 April : The first Iranian radio station, supervised by the Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones, is inaugurated. 15 May : Belgian radio destroys its facilities in Brussels and moves to France, where broadcasts from Lille and later from Montpellier. 18 June : Broadcasting from London on the BBC , General de Gaulle calls on the French people to resist. 27 July : In occupied Belgium, a decree makes listening to British radio broadcasts an offence punishable by forced labour. 1 August: General de Gaulle launches an appeal to French Canadians from London. 28 September : Radio-Belgique is established in London. 24 October : Regular news broadcasts begin in Ewe, Fanti, Hausa, Ga, Tiv and French in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Radio Omdurman is created in Sudan to serve the Allied cause.