PCGG
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PCGG was the call sign
of a privately owned Dutch
radio station which was on air from 6 November 1919 until 11 November 1924. Broadcast from the home of its owner, the engineer Hanso Schotanus à Steringa Idzerda, in The Hague
, the station is accounted one of the world's oldest radio stations and arguably the first commercial broadcaster.
Idzerda was granted his broadcasting licence, which officially limited him to making experimental radio communications between The Hague and Eindhoven, on 14 August 1919. On 6 November he initiated the first official broadcast of his show "Radio Soirée-musicale", the details of which were advertised in a local newspaper. The main goal of his earliest broadcasts was to sell the radio receiver equipment produced by his company, NV Nederlandsche Radioindustrie. It is believed that the microphone and transmitter set-up employed by Idzerda would have been the same or similar to those used in the technique he patented on 24 February 1924.
From 1919 to 1924 the station made regular evening broadcasts several times a week. Because of the popularity of his broadcasts, proved by the amount of listener correspondence, he managed to secure sponsorship, some from as far afield as the United Kingdom
. Idzerda's licence was revoked on 11 November 1924 after he got into financial difficulties and his company was declared bankrupt a month later.
Call sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...
of a privately owned Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
radio station which was on air from 6 November 1919 until 11 November 1924. Broadcast from the home of its owner, the engineer Hanso Schotanus à Steringa Idzerda, in The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, the station is accounted one of the world's oldest radio stations and arguably the first commercial broadcaster.
Idzerda was granted his broadcasting licence, which officially limited him to making experimental radio communications between The Hague and Eindhoven, on 14 August 1919. On 6 November he initiated the first official broadcast of his show "Radio Soirée-musicale", the details of which were advertised in a local newspaper. The main goal of his earliest broadcasts was to sell the radio receiver equipment produced by his company, NV Nederlandsche Radioindustrie. It is believed that the microphone and transmitter set-up employed by Idzerda would have been the same or similar to those used in the technique he patented on 24 February 1924.
From 1919 to 1924 the station made regular evening broadcasts several times a week. Because of the popularity of his broadcasts, proved by the amount of listener correspondence, he managed to secure sponsorship, some from as far afield as the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. Idzerda's licence was revoked on 11 November 1924 after he got into financial difficulties and his company was declared bankrupt a month later.
External links
- Hanso Schotanus à Steringa Idzerda Biography of Idzerda. (In Dutch)
See also
- History of radioHistory of radioThe early history of radio is the history of technology that produced radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy"...
- List of the world's oldest radio stations
- Timeline of radioTimeline of radioThe timeline of radio lists within the history of radio, the technology and events that produced instruments that use radio waves and activities that people undertook...