My only friend through teenage nights
And ev'rything I had to know
I heard it on my radio
The Ur-Example of broadcast media; like Television but without the pictures. You youngin's might think of it as like a podcast, but sent over the open airwaves. As a serial broadcast medium, radio shares many tropes with television. Indeed, early radio originated many of these tropes. Several television series originated on the wireless. These days, of course, television has eclipsed radio to the extent the latter is seen as mostly a format for music and live talk shows, though some stations in some countries (like BBC Radio 4 in the UK and CBC Radio One in Canada) offer drama, comedy, documentaries and more.
The name "radio" comes from the low-energy electromagnetic waves first detected by Heinrich Hertz in 1887. These waves "radiated" out from the spark-gap generator that produced them. The first radio transmitters could only broadcast Morse code, but soon the technology was developed to piggyback audio signals onto a radio-frequency carrier wave. Soon afterward, rules were established to allow for specific radio frequency bands to be allocated to different licensed broadcasters within an area. Eventually, the technology to encode video signals onto radio carrier waves was developed, but by that time radio waves had been used for audio-only broadcasts for so long that the word "radio" had become synonymous with them. (The broadcasters who used radio waves for video signals had to invent a new word for it.) Today, some things called radio, such as cable radio and internet radio stations, don't even use radio waves at all.
See also: Audio Play, Podcast, and Web Original.
Radio Tropes:
- AM/FM Characterization
- Buccaneer Broadcaster
- Broadcast Live
- Dead Air
- Dumbass DJ
- Emergency Broadcast
- Excuse Question
- Large Ham Radio
- Narrating the Obvious
- Numbers Stations
- Shock Jock
- Sound-to-Screen Adaptation
- Radio Song
- Radio Friendliness
- Talk Show
- Tokyo Rose
- WPUN
Radio Genres:
Related Stuff:
Radio Stations and Networks:
- The ABC
- The BBC
- CBC
- Clear Channel
- College Radio
- Global Radio
- Jack FM
- Joy FM
- LBC
- NHK
- NPR
- RTÉ
- SBS
- Virgin Radio
- The Brewing Network
- XL106.7
Radio Programs:
- 15 Minute Musical
- Absolute Power
- Adventures in Odyssey
- The Adventures of Harry Nile
- Alien Worlds
- All Gas and Gaiters
- American Country Countdown
- American Top 40
- The Archers (British radio soap opera of ancient provenance)
- The Armstrong and Getty Show
- As It Happens
- Ask Me Another
- Atomic Tales (tropetastic sci-fi, originally broadcast on The Patriot Network in the 1950s {now on BBC Radio 4 Extra})
- Because News
- Glenn Beck (also had a TV Show on Fox News)
- Bellingham Terror
- The Phil Benfield Show
- The Best Show
- Tony Blackburn
- Blake's 7 (two original-cast episodes and a reboot series)
- BlazBlue Radio
- Bleak Expectations
- Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40
- Bob & Ray (comedy team, heard in one format or another from about 1946-87)
- The Bob & Tom Show
- Bold Venture
- Boers and Bernstein
- Neal Boortz
- Bulldog Drummond
- The Burkiss Way一千八百昼37完整版 一千八百昼37完整版 ,娇艳解释 娇艳解释
- Cabin Pressure
- The Adam Carolla Show
- The Castle
- Car Talk
- CBS Radio Mystery Theater
- Chris and Ciara
- Chris Evans
- Chris Moyles
- Coast to Coast AM (overnight talk radio show focusing on paranormal topics - audience is in the millions!)
- Cowards
- Cuando Juan Y Tula Fueron A Siritinga
- Dad's Army (remake of the original TV show)
- Dead Ringers (later converted to TV format)
- The Debaters
- Democracy Now!
- Desert Island Discs
- Les 2 Minutes du Peuple
- Dimension X
- The D-Pad
- Dragnet
- Dr. Demento
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Earthsearch
- Ectoplasm
- Ed Reardon's Week
- The Jason Ellis Show
- ElvenQuest
- Elvis Duran Morning Show
- Father Knows Best
- John Finnemores Double Acts
- John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
- The Firesign Theatre (very briefly)
- Foul Play
- The Foundation Trilogy
- The Frantics
- The Ricky Gervais Show
- Get This
- Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
- GTA Radio (technically)
- The Goon Show
- Gunsmoke
- Hamish and Dougal
- Hancock's Half Hour
- Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
- Paul Harvey
- Hello Cheeky
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- How Green Was My Cactus
- Hudson and Landry
- Hut 33
- I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
- I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
- In and Out of the Kitchen
- The Infinite Monkey Cage
- It's a White Tomorrow, Team Rocket!
- Jack Flanders
- Janet and John
- Jungle Jam And Friends The Radio Show
- Just a Minute
- Kevin In The Morning
- Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge
- The Last Chance Detectives
- Mark Levin
- Rush Limbaugh (also had a TV show for a couple of years in the mid-90s, and a successful series of children's novels in the 2010s)
- The Lives of Harry Lime
- Lo Zoo Di 105
- Loveline
- Martin/Molloy
- The Masterson Inheritance
- The Men from the Ministry
- The Stephanie Miller Show
- Monitor
- The Museum of Everything
- My Friend Irma
- Nardwuar the Human Serviette
- The Navy Lark (British radio's longest running sitcom {1959-77})
- Nebulous
- New Dynamic English
- The News Quiz
- The Now Show
- Old Harry's Game
- The Mike O'Meara Show
- Opie & Anthony 一千八百昼37完整版 一千八百昼37完整版 ,娇艳解释 娇艳解释
- Our Miss Brooks
- Parties & Parodies
- Party
- Patch the Pirate
- The Penny Dreadfuls Present
- Pokémon: The Birth of Mewtwo
- Political Animals
- A Prairie Home Companion
- Preston & Steve
- Pumuckl (a German kids' series)
- Quiet, Please
- Revolting People
- Riders Radio Theater
- Round the Horne
- Roy D. Mercer
- Royal Canadian Air Farce
- Safety Catch
- Sarah Kennedy
- Says You!
- Michael Savage
- The Scarifyers
- Seymour the Fractal Cat
- So Wrong It's Right
- Son of Cliché
- The Space Gypsy Adventures
- Star Wars Radio Dramas
- The Howard Stern Show
- The Strombo Show
- Stus Show
- Tales from the Afternow
- That Gosh Darn Hippie Show
- Think the Unthinkable
- Third Doctor Radio Dramas
- This American Life
- This Is That
- Throwin Chat
- The Tremendous Court
- The Trials of Marshall Hall
- Time Spanner
- Troll Cops
- True Capitalist
- The Unbelievable Truth
- Tim Fitzhigham: The Gambler
- Undone
- The Very World of Milton Jones
- The Vinyl Cafe
- The Vodafone Big Top 40
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- Warhorses of Letters
- Terry Wogan
- Whose Line Is It Anyway?
- Wiretap
- Wolfman Jack
- X Minus One
- You Bet Your Life
- The Young Turks
Older Than Television Radio Programs:
- The Adventures of Archie Andrews
- The Adventures of Jungle Jim
- The Adventures of Superman 一千八百昼37完整版 一千八百昼37完整版 ,娇艳解释 娇艳解释
- The Aldrich Family
- The Jack Benny Program
- Blondie
- Buck Rogers
- The Burns and Allen Show
- Dick Tracy
- The Adventures of Ellery Queen
- Fibber McGee and Molly
- The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon
- The Great Gildersleeve
- The Green Hornet
- The Guiding Light
- The Bob Hope Show
- Little Orphan Annie
- The Lone Ranger
- Lum and Abner
- Orson Welles's The Mercury Theatre on the Air (famous for its The War of the Worlds adaptation)
- Moon Over Africa
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- The Shadow
- Shipping Forecast
- Terry and the Pirates
- Truth or Consequences