{"id":27669,"date":"2017-08-20T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27669"},"modified":"2017-08-20T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T16:19:19","slug":"today-national-radio-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/today-national-radio-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: National Radio Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Tom Ally, who notes that today is National Radio Day:<\/p>\n

(Source: National Radio Day<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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About<\/h3>\n

National Radio Day is a time to honor one of the most longstanding electronic media and its role in our everyday lives. Radio delivers information, news, entertainment and company to millions of Americans every hour of every day. We invite listeners, broadcasters, producers and stations to celebrate on August 20.<\/p>\n

History<\/b><\/h3>\n

Although there is not one authoritative source on the history of National Radio Day, it has been celebrated since the early 1990s on August 20. Perhaps it was decided that August 20 would be an appropriate day because 8MK (now WWJ) in Detroit, first broadcast on August 20, 1920.<\/p>\n

According to Wikipedia, WWJ debuted as the\u00a0\u201cDetroit News Radiophone\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and was \u201cthe outgrowth of interest in radio technology by the publishers of\u00a0The Detroit News<\/i><\/a>, combined with inventor\u00a0Lee de Forest\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0longtime promotion of radio broadcasting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regular annual recognition didn\u2019t quite take off until 2011 when\u00a0NPR<\/a>\u00a0brought renewed attention to the day.<\/p>\n

Now<\/b><\/h3>\n

National Radio Day is organized by Sabrina Roach, a\u00a0Doer<\/a>\u00a0at Brown Paper Tickets, in partnership with non-commercial radio stations across the United States.<\/p>\n

In July 2015, Roach called a meeting of radio broadcasters, producers and enthusiasts to discuss initiating a project to raise the visibility of non-commercial radio across the country. That effort put fresh energy behind the celebration of National Radio Day.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also an ideal time to initiate a common project for full-power and\u00a0low-power FM (LPFM)<\/a>\u00a0stations as hundreds of new LPFMs are getting on the air made possible by the\u00a0Local Community Radio Act<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to visit the National Radio Day website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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