1941: The Year in Radio News
US networks (recorded off air)
US networks (recorded off air) · 1941–1941
202 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1941
The run
- Network
- US networks (recorded off air)
- Years active
- 1941–1941
- Surviving broadcasts
- 202
- Genre
- news
News from 1941. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1941 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
48 dated broadcasts across 86 years on the air, with 81 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. Dead Air · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. The Long Silence · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. A Room Above the Street · 3 Dec 2024
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 31 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 46 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 1m
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 24 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 39 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 54 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Signal at Midnight
23 Jun 2026 · 17 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
A Room Above the Street
16 Jun 2026 · 32 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Same seasons
news on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The broadcast desk
Wartime correspondence and Cavalcade of America established the daily explainer and the narrated history hour long before either had a feed.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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