SAN JOSE, Calif. >> Walk into a nondescript building in Alameda, Calif., — which happens to have once been the first telephone exchange on the island, circa 1900 — and you’ll find yourself plunged ...

The 2026 edition of the “Radio Historian’s” calendar is now available. This year’s calendar features fourteen photographs ...

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Radio started in Philadelphia in department stores. What better way to sell radios than to give radio buyers something to listen to. In 1922, Gimbel’s launched WIP, Lit Brothers had WLIT, Strawbridge ...

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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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — “Sharing Stories of the Crossroads” is an Ozarks-based history-themed radio show on KICK 92.3 FM & 1340 AM. This week, host John Sellars spoke with radio leaders Malcom Hukriede and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — In the summer of 1922, the war between two local department stores caused the dawn of a new era. Two radio stations — 790 AM and 920 AM — were launched as a new and exciting ...

The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester Twp. will soon celebrate the opening of a new Radio Room exhibition with a ribbon cutting ceremony. “We thought this would be ...

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, ...

Walk into a nondescript building in Alameda – which happens to have once been the first telephone exchange on the island, circa 1900 – and you’ll find yourself plunged into an electronic wonderland of ...