General Reference and Links

Library of American Broadcasting at the University of Maryland is one of the better academic archives of all types of material on radio and television.

Michael Keith’s Broadcast Links, an extensive list, heavily focused on radio both here and abroad, including domestic and international stations, services, periodicals, and radio personalities and programs.

Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, The sponsor of this encyclopedia, the Museum has extensive displays and listening areas, and houses the Radio Hall of Fame.

BRS Web Radio, allows user search by station call letters, format, city, state (or Canadian province), or nation. Including more than 5,000 stations and adding more weekly, this claims to be the most comprehensive such site available. 

History of Radio Technology

These are some of the technology-emphasis sites–there are many more for different inventors (e.g., Marconi, Tesla).

Antique Radio Page by D.J. Adamson, designed for those who collect old radios this includes books, articles, links, classified ads and more.

The Broadcast Archive by Barry Mishkind, includes equipment and programming sections and links, plus information about the FCC, old stations, and links to other archives and organizations.

United States Early Radio History by Thomas H. White, a wonderfully useful site which offers full copy of a variety of pre-1920 articles and documents plus the author’s valuable own research on early radio station list publications, call-letter policies, and the like.

“Old Radio” Programs

Virtually any radio entertainment or news program is now the subject of a site or sites of its own–listed here are some more general “master” sites that link to a host of others.

Old Time Radio, includes many logs of program series, links to other sites, information on collecting programs.

Olde Time Radio, allows one to listen to episodes of about a dozen old radio dramatic programs.

Radio Days, Information on many old network radio programs (including some complete logs), OTR (old time radio) chat room and FAQs and more.

Foreign and International Radio

This is but a sample of useful English-language sites concerning radio broadcasting in nations other than the United States.

Asian-Pacific Broadcasting Union, useful gateway to a variety of Asian broadcasting networks and systems, as well as regional broadcast information of all kinds.

British Broadcasting Corporation, includes all aspects of the London-based but world-famous broadcaster, including the World Service.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the English-language home-page for the Canadian CBC services, including history and other information.

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, organization of public service radio and television broadcasters in the British Commonwealth, useful for a number of African nations especially.

The Offshore Radio Guide, sub-titled “watery wireless websites,” this includes all types of information on past and present pirate (offshore ship-based or artificial-island based) radio stations, with links to many of them.

Virgin Radio, one of the many local commercial radio service providers in Britain.                        

United States Government International Radio Broadcasting, The opening page for the International Broadcasting Bureau which is the controlling body for the VOA, RFE, RL. Radio Free Asia, and Radio Marti. Provides gateways to each of the individual services.