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The year 1941 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. ==Events== *1 January - Federal Communications Commission approval of commercial FM radio takes effect.〔Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8. P. 5.〕 *27 May – Fireside chat: ''Announcing Unlimited National Emergency'' (longest fireside chat). *3 July – Premier Joseph Stalin makes his first radio broadcast to the Soviet people following Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. *6 August – C. S. Lewis begins a series of BBC Radio broadcasts that will be adapted as ''Mere Christianity''. *11 September – Fireside chat: ''On Maintaining Freedom of the Seas'' following the Greer Incident. *7 December – At 2:26 p.m. EST (19:26 GMT), the Mutual Broadcasting System interrupts its play-by-play commentary on the New York Giants/Brooklyn Dodgers NFL game to announce the attack on Pearl Harbor. At around the same time, NBC Red breaks into Sammy Kaye's musical program, NBC Blue suspends ''National Vespers'', and CBS Radio interrupts a concert by the New York Philharmonic. *8 December – The President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, delivers the ''Presidential Address to Congress of December 8, 1941,'' commonly referred to as the "Infamy Speech" to a Joint Session of Congress at 12:30 p.m. EST (17:30 GMT). Transmitted live over all four major American radio networks, it attracts the largest audience ever measured for an American radio broadcast, with over 81 percent of homes tuning in.〔Robert J. Brown, ''Manipulating the Ether: The Power of Broadcast Radio in Thirties America'', pp. 117–120. McFarland & Company, 1998. ISBN 0-7864-2066-9〕 *9 December – Fireside chat: ''On the Declaration of War with Japan''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1941 in radio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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