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"Radio broadcasting added a totally new dimension to modern communication by bringing the outside world into the individual home. The history of radio, however, was far more complex than the history of previous media breakthroughs. The broadcasting system tied together a bundle of technological and scientific threads that had been dangling for a generation."

-- Daniel J. Czitrom,
"The Ethereal Hearth:
American Radio from Wireless through Broadcasting,"
Media and the American Mind,
(Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press), 1982, p. 60  

 

   

The Media History Project Connections Pages
Radio
Museums & Institutions | General Broadcast History | Stations, Networks & Companies | Programs & Pioneers | International Radio | Technologies | Other Resources

Updated September 24, 2002


 Museums & Institutional Resources
  • Broadcast Pioneers Library at the University of Maryland
  • The Museum of Television and Radio
  • National Public Broadcasting Archives, University of Maryland
  • Radio Advertising Bureau Collection, with a collection of soundbites, University of Maryland
  • FCC Database Search for AM & FM, from the Airwaves site, by William Pfeiffer
    •  General Broadcast History Resources
  • Airwaves Golden Age Media Page, by William Pfeiffer
  • The Broadcast Archive, with a very useful FAQ list (including FAQs about the origins of broadcasting), by Barry Mishkind
  • FAQs for Broadcast from the Old Time Radio Page, by Louis Genco
  • Radio Days Pages -- 35 Mbs of sound clips from radio news, drama and more, by Jim Widner
     
  •  Stations, Networks & Companies
  • A History KALX Radio
  • A history of public broadcasting in the U.S.
     
  •  Programs & Pioneers
  • DC Comics Radio -- Superman
  • Radio Classics Pages, including the original 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast
  • Radio Days Pages -- 35 Mbs of sound clips from radio news, drama and more, by Jim Widner
  • Old time radio shows -- Programs from the golden age of radio are available for free downloading.
  • Science Fiction on Radio, a list of for SF over the airwaves, by Jerry Stearns
  • Where Are They Now? -- 440: Satisfaction's guide to "DJ's, news people and unsung radio heroes" from the past

     International Radio
  • The Classic CKLW Page, for CKLW, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, by Jack Decker
  • History of Canadian Broadcasting
     
     Technologies
  • Gerard's Radio Collection, by Gerard Tel
  • Phil's Old Radios, a collection of radios by Phil Nelson
  • Vintage Radio Pages
     
  • Old Time Radio (OTR) Page, by Louis Genco
  • Hammond Radio Museum
  • The National Academy of Engineering site

     Other Radio Resources
  • Radio-Locator. Links to Internet stations and audio streams
  • Radio Tower accesses Internet radio stations worldwide.
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