The year 1932 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

Contents Events Debuts Closings Births Deaths

Events

• March 1 ? Both NBC and CBS go to Hopewell, New Jersey to provide live coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
• March 24 ? A radio variety show is broadcast from a moving train for the first time, when Belle Baker hosts a show on a train traveling around the New York area. It was broadcast on the New York City station WABC. She talked first about the weather then, about local news regarding home-towns or stations of the train with the radio.
• 14 May ? The BBC moves into its new headquarters, Broadcasting House in London.
• 26 May ? The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act is passed, providing for the establishment of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission.
• 19 December ? The BBC Empire Service (ancestor of the BBC World Service) begins transmissions.

Debuts

• January 4 ? The Carnation Contented Hour debuts on NBC Red Network.
• January 12 ? Ed Sullivan joins CBS.
• February 15 ? George Burns and Gracie Allen become regulars on The Guy Lombardo Show on CBS.
• March 29 ? Jack Benny is heard on the radio for the first time on Ed Sullivan's show.
• May 2 ? The Jack Benny Program debuts on the NBC Blue Network.
• June 29 ? The comedy serial Vic and Sade debuts on NBC Blue Network.
• October 23 ? Fred Allen's first radio program, the Linit Bath Club Revue, debuts on CBS.

Closings

Births

• September 13 - Dick Biondi, Radio Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Top 40 and Oldies disc jockey.
• December 9 - Morton Downey, Jr. (d. 2001), controversial and influential American radio and television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the "trash talk show" format.

Deaths

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