70 Years of 2ZA
2ZA ‘The Voice of the Manawatu’ broadcasting from Palmerston North in 1938. An ambitious social history exhibition was mounted by the regional museum Te Manawa to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the local radio station that had such an impact on community life.
History of Rádio Muda
Martin Butera reports on one of the oldest university and free radio stations in Brazil, “Rádio Muda”, which broadcast since the mid-1980s inside the water tower of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
South Australian Radio Memories
Enjoy these two CDs from our archives looking back at radio in South Australia in the 1950s…
Radio Brings Audiences Together
The many challenges faced by artistic programming and performances during the past 18 months are well documented but cannot be overstated. It has quite simply been a devastating time for the creative sector and the subsidiary industries that work within or closely with it.
Warren Fahey Presents Yesterday’s Australia
A Collection of Early Australian Radio & Musical Hall Nostalgia This collection of CDs was donated to the Radio Heritage Foundation by Warren Fahey. Click…
Radio Weddings – Part 1
In this feature we present Part 1 in an interesting series of wedding events under the title, Radio Weddings. We begin our first story way back more than one hundred years ago, at the time when the coastal steamer SS Princess Anne was commuting the Atlantic coast of the United States.
Radio and Gender Equality
“She enters the radio field feeling that there is a great chance for her to show the world at large that no science or business…
Unsung Heroes – D-Day and After
A Documentary by Broadcaster Keith Richardson Sixty years ago, a well-planned military operation codenamed ‘Overlord’, took place on the beaches of Normandy. It was the…
The Women Who Overcame Radio’s Earliest Glass Ceilings
Here are some of the women who excelled in U.S. radio in the first half of the 20th century By John Schneider ⋅ RadioWorldPublished: August…
The JAM Song
1985 was a very busy year for JAM. There were several CHR and A-C formatted stations competing in almost every city, and JAM did the jingles for most of them. Countdown shows abounded, and you could hear JAM on one after another. To take a “snapshot in time” of that moment, we wrote and recorded The JAM Song.
Lure of the Trail – Programme 12 – Lewis Pass
In the late 1930s the New Zealand Department of Tourist and Publicity produced a series of radio programmes to encourage New Zealanders to holiday within…
Falling in Love Over the Airwaves
The couple who fell in love over the ABC’s Radio Australia more than 50 years ago Michael Vincent Dec 15 2019 They were from two…
Shortwave Penpals
Timaru and German penpals still click after more than 50 years Al Williams – Jan 13 2020 Penpals John Watson and Rainer Bradtke have met…
Lure of the Trail – Programme 11 – Lake Waikaremoana
NZ Department of Tourist & Publicity, 1939 In the late 1930s the New Zealand Department of Tourist and Publicity produced a series of radio programmes…
Self Help are Cheaper! Cheaper! Cheaper! – Classic NZ Supermarket Commercials from the 1960s
If you were growing up in New Zealand in the 1960s, and listened to any commercial radio at all, chances are you will remember the…
MAF’s Metric Moments : 14 Tales for Radio by Bill White
The lighter side of farm metrics with MAF’s Bill White. In 1972 New Zealand was changing to using the metric system of measurements. To aid…
Tuning in Radio Sarawak – Historic Film from 1961
The website of the Imperial War Museums contains this rare 1961 film about Radio Sarawak in Malaya. The film description reads: Information film about the…
Lure of the Trail – Programme 10 – Auckland
NZ Department of Tourist & Publicity, 1939 Posters for early air services to Auckland. Images from pinterest.com In the late 1930s the New Zealand Department…
Auntie: The Inside Story of the BBC
A four part documentary to commemorate 75 years of broadcasting history showing the BBC, Auntie as it is affectionately known, from its humble beginnings in…
CKLW and other Jingles from the Past
CKLW and other Jingles from the Past. Published by fansofjingles on YouTube.