{"id":4816,"date":"2015-08-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:52:06","slug":"national-radio-day-august-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4816","title":{"rendered":"National Radio Day, August 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Radio Day is Thursday, August 20th.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate\u00a0the radio and its role in mass communication by tuning into your favorite radio station today!\u00a0While you&#8217;re at it, we hope that you enjoy\u00a0a\u00a0few photographs, available in the DLG, \u00a0that show\u00a0radio broadcasters working and radio listeners engaged with\u00a0radio\u00a0programming.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4817\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/atlanta\/id\/328\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4817 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Family-listening-to-radio-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white. Lennox family listening to the radio at home, Atlanta, Georgia, circa late 1930s or early 1940s. David A. Lennox, Jr. Photographs, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Family-listening-to-radio-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Family-listening-to-radio.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lennox family listening to the radio at home, Atlanta, Georgia, circa late 1930s or early 1940s. David A. Lennox, Jr. Photographs, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4818\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ajc\/id\/310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4818 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Student-radio-station-1966-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white. Students Steve Iscoe and Jan Childs operating radio station at Georgia State College, Atlanta, Georgia, February 16, 1966. AJCP551-55q, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Student-radio-station-1966-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Student-radio-station-1966.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students Steve Iscoe and Jan Childs operating radio station at Georgia State College, Atlanta, Georgia, February 16, 1966. AJCP551-55q, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4819\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/atlanta\/id\/382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4819 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Radio-announcer-WATL.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white. Radio announcer introducing a high school glee club on WATL, Atlanta, Georgia, circa late 1930s or early 1940s. David A. Lennox, Jr. Photographs, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.\" width=\"184\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radio announcer introducing a high school glee club on WATL, Atlanta, Georgia, circa late 1930s or early 1940s. David A. Lennox, Jr. Photographs, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4820\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/atlanta\/id\/316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4820 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Teenagers-climbing-radio-broadcast-tower-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white. Teen-agers climbing the inside of a radio broadcast tower, Atlanta, Georgia, circa late 1930s or early 1940s. David A. Lennox, Jr. Photographs, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Teenagers-climbing-radio-broadcast-tower-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Teenagers-climbing-radio-broadcast-tower.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teen-agers climbing the inside of a radio broadcast tower, Atlanta, Georgia, circa late 1930s or early 1940s. David A. Lennox, Jr. Photographs, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Radio Day is Thursday, August 20th. Celebrate\u00a0the radio and its role in mass communication by tuning into your favorite radio station today!\u00a0While you&#8217;re at it, we hope that you enjoy\u00a0a\u00a0few photographs, available in the DLG, \u00a0that show\u00a0radio broadcasters working and radio listeners engaged with\u00a0radio\u00a0programming. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorative-events","category-dlg-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9070,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/9070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}