1939: The Year in Radio News
US networks (recorded off air)
US networks (recorded off air) · 1939–1939
Broadcasts
94
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1939
The run
- Network
- US networks (recorded off air)
- Years active
- 1939–1939
- Surviving broadcasts
- 94
- Genre
- news
News from 1939. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1939 news file dump. Any typo or error is mine. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
23 dated broadcasts across 88 years on the air, with 85 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sign Off · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. Dead Air · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. The Long Silence · 3 Dec 2024
- 01
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 16 min
- 02
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 31 min
- 03
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 46 min
- 04
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 1m
- 05
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 24 min
- 06
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 39 min
- 07
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 54 min
- 08
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 17 min
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