{"id":4266,"date":"2012-08-20T13:37:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2012-08-20T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T17:37:45","slug":"national-radio-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/national-radio-day-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"National Radio Day 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4269\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NPR-Marconi-NationalRadioDay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4269\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4269\" title=\"NPR-Marconi-NationalRadioDay\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NPR-Marconi-NationalRadioDay-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NPR-Marconi-NationalRadioDay-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NPR-Marconi-NationalRadioDay-100x47.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NPR-Marconi-NationalRadioDay.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge. (Source: NPR)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today in the US, it&#8217;s <a title=\"National Radio Day?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.holidayinsights.com\/moreholidays\/August\/radioday.htm\" target=\"_blank\">National Radio Day<\/a>&#8211;a day to acknowledge the significance of radio technology and the way it has shaped our past, shapes our present, and continues to shape our future.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NPR\" href=\"http:\/\/npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a>\u00a0and its member stations typically celebrate with some fanfare. I especially love their vintage-inspired graphic this year, featuring <a title=\"Who is Marconi?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guglielmo_Marconi\" target=\"_blank\">Guglielmo Marconi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, we should also acknowledge <a title=\"Who is Nikola Tesla?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikola_Tesla\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Tesla<\/a>, whose <a title=\"The Oatmeal\" href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\" target=\"_blank\">17 patents<\/a> may have helped Marconi win his <a title=\"Really, he won the Nobel Prize?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/1909\/marconi-bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel Prize<\/a> as the father of radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the US, it&#8217;s National Radio Day&#8211;a day to acknowledge the significance of radio technology and the way it has shaped our past, shapes our present, and continues to shape our future. National Public Radio\u00a0and its member stations typically celebrate with some fanfare. I especially love their vintage-inspired graphic this year, featuring Guglielmo Marconi. 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Note that this program has geographic restrictions and may be limited to streaming in Australia: ELETTRA from Ronin Films on Vimeo. 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