1918 in radio

1918 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1918.

Events

 * 10 April – Alexander M. Nicholson files a patent for the radio crystal oscillator.
 * 22 September – The first radio broadcast from the United Kingdom to Australia is made by Amalgamated Wireless to the home of Ernest Fisk in Sydney.
 * 11 November – Armistice ends World War I.
 * Edwin Howard Armstrong develops the superheterodyne receiver.
 * A 200 kW alternator starts operating at Station NFF, the United States Navy station at Somerset, New Jersey, the most powerful radio transmitter at this time.

Births

 * 1 January – Wolf Mittler, German broadcaster (d. 2002)
 * 16 April – Spike Milligan, British comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright (d. 2002)
 * 26 April – William Hardcastle, British radio news presenter (d. 1975)
 * 18 June – Isobel Barnett, British broadcasting personality (suicide 1980)
 * 8 August – Salty Brine, American radio host (d. 2004)
 * 9 August – Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish broadcast dramatist (d. 1966)
 * 4 September – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
 * 22 September – Betty Wragge, American actress of the Golden Age of Radio (d. 2002)
 * 26 September – John Zacherle, American television and radio host, singer and voice actor (d. 2016)
 * 7 September – Billy Graham, American minister whose sermons were broadcast on radio (d. 2018)