{"id":263713,"date":"2026-01-02T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/263713\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:55:12","slug":"broadcast-marks-historic-rugby-radio-stations-100th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/263713\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcast marks historic Rugby Radio Station&#8217;s 100th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rugby Radio Station became the UK&#8217;s base for radio telephony and made the first transatlantic voice transition in January 1927 which was sent to Houlton, in Maine, in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also sent the time signal, maritime and submarine communications and played key roles in World War Two. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It could broadcast a message so powerful that it would be picked up by almost every ship at sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After closing, part of the building that was used to house the transmitter was saved and developed into the school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby Radio Station became the UK&#8217;s base for radio telephony and made the first transatlantic voice transition in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-263713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115826558565330934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}