regular radio broadcasting in the Netherlands. 26 September – In Cleveland, Ohio, S. E. Lawrence and Theodore Willard launch WTAM in the name of the Willard Storage Battery Company. 28 September – First publication of the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times, in Britain. 10 October – First BBC broadcast from Aberdeen in the north of Scotland (station 2BD). 17 October – first BBC broadcast from Bournemouth in the south of England (station 6BM). 29 October – Regular radio broadcasting in Germany officially begins with the first evening transmission from the Sendestelle Berlin installed at the Vox-Haus in Potsdamer Platz. 13 November – Australia's first licensed radio station, 2SB, begins transmission in Sydney. 23 November – In Belgium, French-speaking station Radio Bruxelles begins broadcasting (it will change its name to Radio Belgique on 1 January 1924). 31 December KDKA in Pittsburgh conducts the first transcontinental voice broadcast with a station in Manchester, England. The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben from London for the first time. Debuts 22 March – Hockey Night in Canada is first broadcast on the Toronto Star's private station CFCA. Births 26 January – Patricia Hughes, English continuity announcer (died 2013) 2 March – Jean Metcalfe, English radio broadcaster (died 2000) 9 May – Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (died 2008) 10 October – Nicholas Parsons, British entertainer (died 2020) 21 November – Margaret Lyons, born Keiko Margaret Inouye, Canadian broadcast executive (died 2019) 22 December – John Ebdon, British radio broadcaster, Graecophile, author and director of the London Planetarium (died 2005) 25 December – Gordon Baxter, American radio personality, author and columnist (died 2005) References Radio by year