1944: The Year in Radio News
US networks (recorded off air)
US networks (recorded off air) · 1944–1944
484 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1944
The run
- Network
- US networks (recorded off air)
- Years active
- 1944–1944
- Surviving broadcasts
- 484
- Genre
- news
News from 1944. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1944 news file dump. Plus some V-Discs. Any typo or error is mine....if you like my uploads / Demonoid torrents please consider donating to a veteran's charity of your choice, thank you. Especially if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files. :D 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
93 dated broadcasts across 83 years on the air, with 74 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. Sign Off · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. Dead Air · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. The Long Silence · 3 Dec 2024
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 52 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 15 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 30 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 45 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 23 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 38 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 53 min
The one everybody argues about.
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
Working in the tradition of 1944: The Year in Radio News
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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