For more than 100 years, radio has bore witness to millions of moments of global, national, and local significance. While many of those broadcasts are lost to time, the Library of American ...

From golden-age radio scripts to rare recordings of legendary broadcasts, the American Radio Archives (ARA) hold a trove of stories that shaped the airwaves. Now, thanks to a $100,000 grant from The ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Circa 1945, a family of four gathers in their living room to listen to their home radio set Circa 1945, a family of four gathers in their living room to listen to ...

The author is professor of communication at William Paterson University. Radio World invites industry-oriented commentaries and responses. Send to Radio World. I usher an alumnus into our studio at ...

To know where you’re going you have to know where you’ve been. The history of radio broadcasting is interesting and extends beyond the work of Tesla, Marconi and Armstrong. It includes advances in ...

Thanks largely to radio, no public figure had ever seemed quite so close to so many citizens as Franklin Roosevelt. Reporting the death of the President who made his own radio history, radio, too, ...

Fans of radio history have a resource for well-written and researched articles, available at theradiohistorian.org. I discovered the site almost by accident, through an email conversation I was having ...

Dr. Katherine Rye Jewell has written a dazzling history of a fascinating and underappreciated media phenomenon: “Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio.” The historian and a former ...

Dominic Massa is the executive producer and special projects director at WWL-TV, and the author of New Orleans Television, a look at the city's broadcasting history. His new book, New Orleans Radio, ...

This year marks 100 years since radio was introduced in South Africa, through “the first experimental broadcast at the Railway Headquarters in Johannesburg” on 18 December 1923. A century on, up to 94 ...