Known for Radio pioneer Name Ernest Fisk | Died 1965 | |
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Full Name Ernest Thomas Fisk Born 8 August 1886 Sunbury, Middlesex, England | ||
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Sir Ernest Thomas Fisk (8 August 1886 – 8 July 1965) was an English Australian businessman and entrepreneur who was the founder (1913) and later Managing Director (1916) and Chairman (1932) of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) (AWA). In 1944 was appointed Managing Director of the EMI music empire.
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On 22 September 1918 he proved the possibility of direct radio broadcasts from the UK to Australia by receiving the first such message at his Sydney home.
Fiskville, Victoria, about 10 kilometres south of Ballan, is named after him. From 1927 to 1969 it was the location of shortwave wireless transmitting complex operated by AWA as part of the Imperial Wireless Chain.
Honours
Fisk was knighted on 11 May 1937.
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