Monday 13 February 2012

John Oxley Library Blog ? World Radio Day 2012

World Radio Day 2012

Posted on Monday, February 13, 2012 by JOL Admin.

On November 3, 2011, the 36th General Conference of UNESCO approved the creation of the World Day of Radio to be celebrated each year on 13 February.

Radio technology, which began as ?wireless telegraphy,? owes its development to two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone. Since the end of the 19th century, when the first successful radio transmissions were achieved and to this day, radio remains as important means of communications as ever.

Group of friends gathered around a radio in Brisbane, ca. 1942. Image Number 102831 Radio announcer, Mr Dahl on 4AY in Ayr, Queensland, ca. 1937. Image Number APE-079-0001-0021 The Fisk Radiolette (mantle model) by AWA featured a., tall, stepped Bakelite cabinet containing the radio components. Queensland Museum Object No:H17519 Radio announcer, Peter Clarke from 4KQ Brisbane, 1951. Image number 204872 First Queensland School-of-the-Air broadcast from Cloncurry Base VJI, 1960. Image number 166302

With the advent of new technologies and media convergence, radio is being transformed and is moving onto new delivery platforms, such as broadband Internet, mobiles and tablets. In the digital era, radio continues to be relevant, as people digitally tune in via computers, satellite radio and mobile devices.

Despite technological change radio remains the world?s most accessible platform, a powerful communication tool and a low cost medium. It is the mass media that reaches the widest audience in the world.

At the State Library of Queensland we house records that tell the story of the important role radio has played in our society as a source of education, entertainment, and as a means of connecting to the world in remote and urban areas. These records include photographs, transcripts of radio serials, records of radio stations, radio programs and radio related publications, recordings and ephemera.

Happy World Radio Day!

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