1949: The Year in Radio News
US networks (recorded off air)
US networks (recorded off air) · 1949–1949
Broadcasts
35
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1949
The run
- Network
- US networks (recorded off air)
- Years active
- 1949–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 35
- Genre
- news
News from 1949. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1949 news file dump. Plus some talk shows and specials. 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
9 dated broadcasts across 78 years on the air, with 76 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sign Off · 9 Dec 2025
- 2. Dead Air · 16 Dec 2025
- 3. The Long Silence · 23 Dec 2025
- 01
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 23 min
- 02
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 38 min
- 03
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 53 min
- 04
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 16 min
- 05
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 31 min
- 06
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 46 min
- 07
Signal at Midnight
23 Jun 2026 · 1h 1m
- 08
A Room Above the Street
16 Jun 2026 · 24 min
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