1921 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1921. Events 2 January – Dr E. J. Van Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church makes one of the first religious broadcast on the Pittsburgh station KDKA. 3 January – Station 9XM (now WHA), at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, transmits the first spoken weather forecast. The station had been broadcasting weather bulletins in Morse code since 1916. 18 February – Warren G. Harding becomes the first U.S. president-elect to be heard on radio when he speaks on KDKA. 4 March – The first Presidential inauguration is broadcast from Washington, D.C., by KDKA. 10 March – From Pittsburgh's Davis Theater KDKA makes the first broadcast in history of a live opera/theater performance. 11 April – The world's first ever sports broadcast is made on KDKA by Florent Gibson of the Pittsburgh Post newspaper. The commentary is of a fight between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee at Motor Square Garden in Pittsburgh. 2 July – From Jersey City, New Jersey, KDKA transmits the first ever broadcast of a world heavyweight boxing bout. 5 August – The first broadcast of a baseball game is on the air from KDKA as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 8–5 at Forbes Field. 20 September – KDKA and the Pittsburgh Post create the first "news room" and "news department" in broadcast history. 25 September – The wireless telegraph station in Sofia makes the first public radio broadcast in Bulgaria: the retransmission of a concert from the German station at Nauen. 8 October – The first broadcast of American football is on the air via KDKA as the University of Pittsburgh defeats West Virginia University at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field. 17 November – The first radio broadcast in New Zealand is made by University of Otago physics professor Robert Jack. 26 November – First public radio broadcast in France, from the Compagnie générale de la télégraphie sans fil (CSF) Sainte-Assise transmitter. 27 November – U.S. bandleader Vincent Lopez and his group begin making a series of weekly 90-minute music broadcasts on Westinghouse-owned station WJZ in Newark, New Jersey (later WABC New York). 24 December – First public radio broadcast from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Debuts February – WQAM is launched in Miami, Florida by the W.W. Luce of the Electrical Equipment Company. 26 July – Experimental station 8ACS (later WHK) is launched