Why Do We Celebrate National Radio Day?

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National Radio Day is a time to honor one of the most longstanding electronic media and its role in our lives," said Now available from anywhere in the United States, we have included more than 500 vintage radio programs to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) Online Reading Room to honor National Radio Day. The Online Reading Room currently features more than 14,000 historic public radio and television programs accessible for research, educational and informative uses thanks to these latest additions.

Why Do We Celebrate National Radio Day

Online listening of the following radio shows is now possible:

Vermont Public Radio's (1978 – 1980) cross currents

Cross Currents is a set of public forums and video lectures covering Vermont civic concerns.

Hit the Dirt for WERU Community Radio (1990s).

Every episode of Hit the Dirt, an instructional program offering knowledge on a certain area of gardening.

WERU Community Radio (1990s) Herbal Update

Every episode of Herbal Update, an instructional program covering the health and nutritional advantages of a certain herb,

Originally part of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB), the following series were donated to the AAPB by the National Public Broadcasting Archives of University of Maryland. Established in 1934 from a forerunner group founded in 1925, NAEB Early networking that shaped the history of later public radio and television networks, NAEB set up a tape copying exchange system in Urbana, IL, where programs created by university radio stations around the nation were copied and sent to member stations. Produced between 1952 and 1976, the more than 5,500 NAEB radio programs housed in the AAPB comprise radio documentaries, coverage of events (hearings, meetings, conferences, and seminars), interviews, debates, and lectures on public affairs issues including civil rights, foreign affairs, health, politics, education, and broadcasting.

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