First Radio Emission in South America

1920

First Radio Transmission in Argentina- Primera transmisión radial en Argentina
"Los Locos de la Azotea" ("The crazy ones on the Roof" ) are going to do the first transmission in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The night of  the 27th of August of 1920 , the doctor  Enrique Susini had everything installed: radio equipment and an antenna  on the rothe theater named Coliseo de Buenos Aires. At  21 hours, Susini announced the beginning of the inauguration of the transmission which was organized together with Miguel Mujica, Luis Romero Carranza and César Guerrico from  Theater Coliseo, where the Society of the Argentinian Radio presented the opera  “Parsifal” of Richard Wagner. After that followed under the direction of  Félix von Wingartner,began the Overture of the historic  transmission that lasted almost three hours.  The next day, the newspaper La Razón headline was (the audition that fell from the heavens  "audición llovida del cielo".

In Argentina, the new era began in 1897 the physicist and Italian engineer Teobaldo J. Ricaldoni, began to transmit radio electric transmissions as the ones occurring in different parts of the world. But, because of the security risks during WWI stopped all radio transmissions in Argentina.But, in 1919, fifteen Argentinians radio enthusiasts reinstalled their antennas and retake their receivers.

It was those "crazy ones on the roof", as they were called by some, who-with the name of the Argentinian Radio Society- began global broadcasting on the 27th of August of 1920, with an antenna  antenna placed on the old  Coliseo theater. For the few twenty equipment existing in the city, it was possible to listen to the opera Parsifal, of Richard Wagner. In few months, the emissions were realized alternating between the theaters of Coliseo, Colón and Odeón. Also, they broadcasted music, records, news, recitals, advertising and live shows.