{"id":31223,"date":"2018-03-17T07:59:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T11:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31223"},"modified":"2018-03-17T07:59:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T11:59:21","slug":"video-history-of-radio-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/video-history-of-radio-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: History of radio documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Atwater-Kent-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12446\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Atwater-Kent-Dial-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Atwater-Kent-Dial-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Atwater-Kent-Dial-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Atwater-Kent-Dial.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), who shares the following <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/myVGKUui55M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Modern Marvels&#8221; documentary on the history of radio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/myVGKUui55M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/myVGKUui55M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), who shares the following &#8220;Modern Marvels&#8221; documentary on the history of radio: Click here to view on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,304,4796],"tags":[3079,3422,6895,465,4091],"class_list":["post-31223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-videos","category-vintage-radio","tag-documentaries","tag-mike-k8rat","tag-modern-marvels","tag-radio-documentaries","tag-radio-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-87B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31261,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/generation-radio-a-short-documentary-about-the-evolution-of-broadcasting\/","url_meta":{"origin":31223,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Generation Radio&#8221;: A short documentary about the evolution of broadcasting","author":"Thomas","date":"March 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen, who shares the following documentary film about the evolution of broadcast radio. 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