From the Smithsonian, the invention of the car radio. Paul Galvin started a radio parts manufacturing company in Chicago along with his brother, Joseph, in 1928. A year later, the Depression hit and ...

The Triumph and Tumult of NPR," stops well short of the Donald Trump Era but offers a character-rich media story.

For the radio, the 1930s was a golden age. At the start of the decade 12 million American households owned a radio, and by 1939 this total had exploded to more than 28 million. But why was this ...

In 1938, the director of the Signal Corps Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Col. Roger B. Colton, transformed ...

The ARA, one of the nation’s largest collections documenting the history of radio broadcasting, comprises over 50 collections, including the papers of radio legends Norman Corwin and Rudy Vallée, the ...

"What it did was to annihilate borders," states Norman Corwin, the author and producer of many of the greatest broadcasts in the history of radio. Corwin's career evolved into a smorgasbord of media.

Hattie “Chatty Hatty” Leeper, one of the Southeast’s first black female disc jockeys, turned an after-school job organizing ...

It is a day to recognise the importance of radio in promoting information, education, and entertainment across diverse communities. Let's dive deeper into the history, significance, and role of ...