1940: The Year in Radio News
US networks (recorded off air)
US networks (recorded off air) · 1940–1940
Broadcasts
189
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
- Network
- US networks (recorded off air)
- Years active
- 1940–1940
- Surviving broadcasts
- 189
- Genre
- news
News from 1940. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1940 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
45 dated broadcasts across 87 years on the air, with 82 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. Signal at Midnight · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. The Last Train Out · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. Night Broadcast · 3 Dec 2024
- 01
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 56 min
- 02
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 19 min
- 03
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 34 min
- 04
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 49 min
- 05
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 4m
- 06
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 27 min
- 07
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 42 min
- 08
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 57 min
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