1918 in radio

1918 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1918.

Events

10 April – Alexander M. Nicolson files a patent for the radio crystal oscillator.
22 September – The first radio broadcast from the United Kingdom to Australia is made by AWA to the home of Ernest Fisk in Sydney.
11 November – Armistice ends World War I.
Edwin Howard Armstrong develops the superheterodyne receiver.
A 200 kW alternator starts operating at Station NFF, the United States Navy station at Somerset, New Jersey, the most powerful radio transmitter at this time.

1 January – Wolf Mittler, German broadcaster (d. 2002)
16 April – Spike Milligan, British comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright (d. 2002)
26 April – William Hardcastle, British radio news presenter (d. 1975)
18 June – Isobel Barnett, British broadcasting personality (suicide 1980)
8 August – Salty Brine, American radio host (d. 2004)
9 August – Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish broadcast dramatist (d. 1966)
4 September – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
22 September – Betty Wragge, American actress of the Golden Age of Radio (d. 2002)
26 September – John Zacherle, American television and radio host, singer and voice actor (d. 2016)
7 September – Billy Graham, American minister whose sermons were broadcast on radio (d. 2018)