14 January – In Spain, radio station EAJ-24 Radio Córdoba begins transmission, its first broadcast coming from the Conservatorio Superior de Música in the city.
7 May – Fireside chat: "Outlining the New Deal Program".
31 May – As the first step towards removing advertising from public radio, the French government introduces a broadcast receiving licence fee payable by owners of radio sets (15 francs per crystal set, 50 francs per valve radio).[2]
1 July – In Norway, NRK becomes the national broadcaster.[3]
24 July – Fireside chat: "On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program". Roosevelt introduces the concept of the "first 100 days".
28 July – Sheila Borrett becomes the first female BBC Radio broadcaster.[4]
18 August – In Germany, the Volksempfänger ("people's receiver"), a readily affordable radio set designed to be capable, as far as possible, of picking up only the transmissions of government-controlled stations, is presented at the 10th International Radio Show, Berlin.
22 October – Fireside chat: "On the Currency Situation"'.
3 December – Les Crane (died 2008), San Francisco-based radio announcer and television talk show host who wins a Grammy for his recording of the poem Desiderata.
19 November – Larry King (died 2021), American radio and television host (WIOD).
^"NRK fyller 80 år" (in Norwegian Bokmål). nrk.no. 29 June 2013. Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
^Seatter, Robert; Robinson, Nick (2022). Broadcasting Britain: 100 years of the BBC. London: DK. p. 38. ISBN978-0-2415-6754-8.
^Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN978-0-7864-3848-8.
^ abcdefghijDunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-507678-3.