Overview
About the event
Radio Commercials Day was founded to commemorate the day when the very first radio commercial was broadcast on a New York radio station, WEAF. This took place on August 28, 1922 and the advertisement was for an American estate agent, Queensboro Realty.
While the US got its start with advertisements on privately held radio stations rather early on, it would take more than 50 years for this concept to spread across the ocean. In fact, it wasn�??t until 1973 that the UK had its first radio commercial, which ran on LBC and the advertisement promoted Birds Eye frozen food.
Radio Commercials Day offers a super opportunity to change that dial, turn the volume up a little bit higher, and get listening to the radio!
While the US got its start with advertisements on privately held radio stations rather early on, it would take more than 50 years for this concept to spread across the ocean. In fact, it wasn�??t until 1973 that the UK had its first radio commercial, which ran on LBC and the advertisement promoted Birds Eye frozen food.
Radio Commercials Day offers a super opportunity to change that dial, turn the volume up a little bit higher, and get listening to the radio!
