LIMITED QUANTITY! 2026 BROADCAST HISTORIAN’S CALENDAR

Description

The 2026 edition of the Radio Historian’s calendar is now available. This year’s calendar features fourteen high-resolution colorized photographs of radio broadcasting’s glorious 100+ year history. Each of the images was taken from an original black and white glossy photograph and has been digitally remastered and colorized to replicate the original scene as accurately as possible. Two pages of text at the end of the calendar describe the history of each scene. Additionally, each month’s calendar page commemorates important dates in radio history.

Here are this year’s featured photographs:

FRONT COVER: WTMJ studio orchestra, 1931
JANUARY: Hoover inauguration equipment tests, 1929
FEBRUARY: “The March of Time” on CBS, 1932
MARCH: KGEI shortwave transmitter, 1941
APRIL: Skitch Henderson, NBC musician
MAY: Listening to European radio signals, 1923
JUNE: Producing sound effects at WGY, 1942
JULY: Testing a 1920’s radio receiver
AUGUST: Studio broadcast at WMBC in Detroit, 1932
SEPTEMBER: Deejay Bob Newman at WLPH in Birmingham, 1981
OCTOBER: “The Townsend Murder Mystery” on NBC, 1933
NOVEMBER: The WGY control room in the mid- to late-1920’s
DECEMBER: Lionel Barrymore performs “A Christmas Carol” on NBC
BACK COVER: The KOA transmitter building in Denver, 1934