A map showing when radio broadcasting was introduced in each country.
1920s, 1st half, or earlier (33)
1920s, 2nd half (53)
1930s (56)
1940s (35)
1950s (27)
1960s or later (17)
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This is a list of when the first radio broadcasts to the public occurred in the mentioned countries and territories. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not referred to; neither are license dates or dates of the official opening.
Basis for each entry is the time of introduction. Listed are independent countries, dependent territories and territories within a country only if they became independent later or if it is a large country and there is a vast time difference with the introduction in different parts.
Each entry comprises: the flag linked to the country or territory, the name of the country or territory and, in parentheses, the designation of the radio station (either by call sign or by name, linked to a main article), its city and some additional information.
Armenian SSR (RA49 Yerevan), Azerbaijan SSR (RA45 Baku), Burma (2HZ R. Club Rangoon), China (XOH Harbin; XKM Nanjing 1928; XNCR Yan'an 1940); CZ: Slovakia (Radiojournal, Bratislava), Danzig (Landessender Danzig), Egypt (R. Farouk et al., Cairo),[8] El Salvador (AQM San Salvador), Estonia (R. Ringhääling, Tallinn), Finland (Yle, Helsinki; 3NB Tampere 1924), Georgian SSR (RA27 Tbilisi), Iceland (H.f. Útvarp, Reykjavík), Ireland (2RN Dublin), Lithuania (Lietuvos radijas, Kaunas), Poland (Polskie R., Warsaw), Venezuela (AYRE Caracas), Yugoslavia: Croatia (R. Zagreb)
Bermuda (TJW Hamilton),[12] Bulgaria (Rodno R., Sofia), Guatemala (TGW La Voz de Guatemala, Guatemala City), Malaysia (KLAWS, Kuala Lumpur), Saint Pierre and Miquelon (R. Club), Tunisia (Tunis Kasbah), Vietnam: Cochinchina (FZS Saigon)
Curaçao (CUROM Willemstad), Macau (CQN/CRY-9), Mozambique (LM Radio, Lourenço Marques), Panama (HPJ5 R. Tembleque, Panama City), Spanish Morocco (EAJ-21 Melilla)
1934
French Polynesia (FO8AA R. Club Oceanien, Papeete), Mongolia (R. Ulaanbaatar), Nicaragua (YNLF Managua), Tenerife (EAJ-43 R. Club Tenerife, Santa Cruz)
1935
British Guiana (VP3BG Georgetown > ZFY), Dutch Guiana (AVROS, Paramaribo), Ethiopia (R. Addis Ababa), Fiji (ZJV Suva), French Equatorial Africa [AEF]/Congo (R. Club Brazzaville), Haiti (HHK Port-au-Prince), Hyderabad (VUV Deccan R.), Leeward Islands (VP2LO Caribbean Broadcasting Service, Basseterre > ZIZ), Malta (Radju Malta, Valletta), Mysore (VU7MC Ākāśavāṇī), Papua (4PM Port Moresby)[13]
1936
Bahamas (ZNS Nassau), Botswana (ZNB Mafeking), Iraq (R. Baghdad), Korea, North (JBBKHeijō), Las Palmas (EAJ-50 R. Las Palmas), Palestine (PBS, Jerusalem/Ramallah), Tyva (R. Kyzyl)[14]
1937
Angola (CR6AA Lobito),[15] Belgian Congo (OQ2AA R. Léo, Léopoldville), British Honduras (ZIK-2 Belize), Guadeloupe (R. Guadeloupe), Martinique (R. Martinique), New Caledonia (FK8AA Nouméa)