The 2025 edition of The Radio Historian’s calendar, which celebrates the Golden Age of American radio broadcasting, is now available for purchase.
According to creator John Schneider, the collector’s calendar features fourteen “high-resolution, colorized photographs of radio broadcasting’s glorious 105-year history.”
Schneider says 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 month’s featured photo. Additionally, each month’s calendar page commemorates important dates in radio history.
Here are this year’s featured photos listed month by month:
- COVER: An NBC network remote truck in San Francisco, late 1920’s
- JANUARY: An NBC remote broadcast from a Navy submarine, 1930
- FEBRUARY: The WIOD transmitter building and towers in Miami 1947
- MARCH: Commentator H.V. Kaltenborn broadcasts over NBC during World War II
- APRIL: “Music Man” Meredith Willson conducts the “Shell Ship of Joy” orchestra, 1930
- MAY: A live broadcast of NBC daytime soap opera “Pepper Young’s Family”, 1938
- JUNE: KIRO morning man Jim French broadcasts from his studio in Seattle’s Space Needle, 1966
- JULY: Three NBC engineers operate a remote broadcast mixer, early 1940’s
- AUGUST: A Broadway theatrical group broadcasts over WJZ in Newark, NJ, 1923
- SEPTEMBER: Live sound effects are created for a radio drama at WBBM in Chicago, 1947
- OCTOBER: The master control room of General Electric’s station WGY in Schenectady, 1925
- NOVEMBER: Transmitter building and towers of WBCM in Bay City, Michigan, 1938
- DECEMBER: The inaugural broadcast of WQAN, The Scranton Times newspaper station in Pennsylvania, 1923
- BACK COVER: The transmitter building and tower of KSFO in San Francisco, 1937
The price of the calendar is $22.95 and includes postage to anywhere in the United States. Additional mailing costs will incur for shipments to other countries.
For more information, contact John Schneider at [email protected].
