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On Wednesday, December 31, as part of Last Night Belfast 2025, I will be appearing at The Abbott Room, Belfast Free Library starting at 6:00 pm.My program: Megan Pinette, Belfast Historical Society & Museum president, will present, “Hello America, The Experimental Radio Corporation Station in Belfast Makes Global History.”
On the evening of March 14th 1925, New York City residents who tuned their radio dials to station WJZ (455 khz) were surprised to hear “Hello, America. This is the Hotel Savoy broadcasting from 5 Savoy Court, London, England, and station 2LO.” Then the music came on from 3000 miles away; a dance band at the Savoy Hotel and a studio program featuring a violin and piano concert. The program was the first ever live trans-Atlantic long-wave wireless broadcast. The transmission was received and then relayed to New York and the rest of the country by the experimental Radio Corporation of America station at Belfast, Maine. For the next two hours, New York announcer Milton Cross repeatedly interrupted the broadcast with excited commentary about its historic nature.
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Belfast Free Library, 106 High St,Belfast, Maine, United States
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