The year 1906 in radio involved some significant events.
Events
3 October – The first International Radiotelegraph Convention opens in Berlin. 24 December – Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, USA: a poetry reading, a violin solo and a speech. Lee de Forest invents the audion (triode).
Births 14 January – William Bendix, American film, radio and television actorCox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. . (died 1964) 19 January – Lanny Ross, American singer, pianist and songwriter (died 1988) 8 February – Harman Grisewood, English radio actor and administrator (died 1997) 20 February – James Jewell, American radio actor, producer and director (died 1975) 24 April – William Joyce, American-born Nazi propagandist (executed 1946) 13 May – Eileen Fowler, English fitness instructor (died 2000)
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