{"id":49234,"date":"2021-06-12T05:33:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T09:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49234"},"modified":"2021-06-12T05:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T09:33:05","slug":"lithuania-95th-anniversary-of-first-radio-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/lithuania-95th-anniversary-of-first-radio-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania: 95th anniversary of first radio transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_49235\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Antique-Mic-Lithuania.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49235\" class=\"wp-image-49235 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Antique-Mic-Lithuania.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Antique-Mic-Lithuania.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Antique-Mic-Lithuania-300x213.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Antique-Mic-Lithuania-624x442.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Lietuvos centrinis valstyb?s archyvas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blagnys\/status\/1403608246322089984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giedrius Blagnys<\/a>, who notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The first national radio broadcast in Lithuania started on 1926-06-12 d. Photo above: the mic used for the first broadcast.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Recording of the first transmission:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0tr205A0DjA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for sharing this interesting bit of history with us, Giedrius!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Giedrius Blagnys, who notes: The first national radio broadcast in Lithuania started on 1926-06-12 d. Photo above: the mic used for the first broadcast.\u00a0 Recording of the first transmission: Many thanks for sharing this interesting bit of history with us, Giedrius!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288],"tags":[9313,3547,4091],"class_list":["post-49234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-giedrius-blagnys","tag-lithuania","tag-radio-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cO6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12056,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-vilnius-1990-1991\/","url_meta":{"origin":49234,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Vilnius 1990-1991","author":"Thomas","date":"January 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Richard Langley, has digitized another set of historic off-air recordings--this time, documenting the independence of Lithuania through Radio Vilinus. 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