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Listings for educational and informational sites relating to the history of radio.

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• Antique Radios
• Radio Personalities Tributes
• Radio Station Tributes

Resources in This Category

• 1950's British Radio Nostalgia

  http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio
  From Mrs. Dale's Diary to Take It From Here. A collection of BBC Radio programmes in the 1950's are reviewed here. Some with audio clips.

• Airheads Radio Survey Archive

  http://www.las-solanas.com/arsa/
  An historical archive of pop music radio surveys from the 50s through the 80s. The searchable singles and albums chart data are cross-referenced and include many local or regional hits.

• Bay Area Radio Museum

  http://www.bayarearadio.org/
  The history of radio broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area, including streaming audio, photographs and memorabilia dating back to the early 20th Century.

• BBC Radio classics: 1922-46

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1204729.stm
  BBC site with historic recordings from the first daily radio service in 1922 until the end of World War 2.

• Boss Radio Forever

  http://www.bossradioforever.com/
  The history of 1965 Los Angeles rock and roll radio station KHJ.

• Broadcasting Scrapbook

  http://racampbell.tripod.com/blog/
  Memories of radio stations and broadcasters of the 20th century. Contributions welcome.

• Central Florida Radio

  http://www.cflradio.net/
  History of Radio Stations in Central Florida form Orlando to Deland

• DCNYRadio Memory Bank

  http://www.dcnyradio.8m.net/
  Radio and TV memories of stations in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Boston and New York.

• Dr. Lee De Forest Radio History

  http://www.deforestradio.com/
  Chronicles the history of De Forest radios.

• George "Hound dog" Lorenz

  http://www.hounddoglorenz.com/
  History of Buffalo, New York's "Father of Rock and Roll Radio." Features pictures, sounds and articles on George "Hound dog" Lorenz.

• History of American Broadcasting

  http://jeff560.tripod.com/broadcasting.html
  AM and FM station lists from the 1920s through 1950s. Articles mostly on early history of radio and TV.

• History of Central Florida Radio Stations. WPLA, WLAK, WONN

  http://www.radioyears.com/
  History of Central Florida Radio Stations. Biographies, Memorabilia, and Audio clips of Central Florida radio stations and personalities.

• History of WDRC Radio in Hartford, Connecticut

  http://www.wdrcobg.com/
  Presents a visual and audio history of WDRC, Connecticut's oldest radio station.

• John Allen's Radio Pages

  http://johnallen.com/radio.html
  Pictures and audio from the UK's BBC Radio London, LBC Newstalk (commercial speech station) and Imperial College Radio (student station).

• Larry Matthews' Minor Career In Radio

  http://members.tripod.com/~djkuba/index-21.html
  Larry's erratic history of being a disc jockey starting in California in 1967. Also the technological changes that have occurred to change the industry.

• Marconi 100 - Marking a century of radio

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/marconi/index.shtml
  The BBC's story of Marconi's first trans-Atlantic broadcast in 1901 from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland.

• MDS975 Radio Memorabilia section

  http://www.arar93.dsl.pipex.com/mds975/
  A look at radio history in the UK from 1920 until today, paying tribute to the BBC, BBC Local Radio and Independent Local Radio.

• Radio Days: A Soundbite History

  http://www.otr.com/
  Experience the history of broadcast radio including both news and entertainment. Plus a monthly updated timeline of broadcast radio and many links to other radio-related material.

• Radio Heritage Foundation - sharing the stories of Pacific radio

  http://www.radioheritage.net/RHF_NEWS_RSS2.XML
  Radio Heritage Foundation provides an online archive collection of stories about pacific radio and a broad range of advocacy, research, education, publishing and other programs.

• Radio London in the 1960's

  http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/kneesflashes/stationprofile/hist.html
  History of the pirate Radio London, off the Essex coast in the mid-1960's. Includes useful context of why the pirate stations emerged.

• Radio Rewind - 40 years of Radio 1 & 2

  http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/
  Unofficial look back over the years of Britain's BBC Radio One and Two. Includes sound files, jingles, listings, disc jockey profiles and photographs.

• RADIOZONE

  http://ndaeuro.online.fr/gargot/index.htm
  The radio, mostly French, its history, its stories. On the radio and the Internet.

• StlRadio

  http://www.stlradio.com/
  A site which presents the history of St. Louis Broadcast Radio.

• The Broadcast Archive

  http://www.oldradio.com/
  Resources, documents, history, and trivia relating to US radio stations from 1913 onward.

• The history of the UK radio licence

  http://www.radiolicence.org.uk/
  In the United Kingdom you were required - from 1922 until 1971 - to pay for a radio licence in order to legally listen to the wireless. Illustrated history.

• United States Early Radio History

  http://earlyradiohistory.us/
  Articles and extracts about early radio and related technologies, in the United States from 1897 to 1927. By Thomas H. White.

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