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🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️ Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts. It’s all in our blog ⬇️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/t... 🧵1️⃣/5️⃣ #WorldRadioDay #InternetArchive

2️⃣/5️⃣ Commemorated every Feb 13 since UNESCO’s 2011 proclamation, World Radio Day 2026 spotlights “radio and artificial intelligence,” including how AI-generated transcription can unlock decades of archived broadcasts. 📻

3️⃣/5️⃣ The Internet Archive’s DLARC College Radio collection brings that to life with 1980s paper playlists, airplay reports, zines, flyers, stickers, and materials from stations across the U.S. and Canada. 🎶🌈

4️⃣/5️⃣ Newly digitized collections include playlists saved by the band Get Smart!, materials from the Cleveland College Radio Coalition and WBGU-FM, and decades of KVRX-FM history from 1986 to 2025. 🗂️

5️⃣/5️⃣ Select recordings now feature AI-generated transcripts, making interviews, oral histories, and radio shows searchable and readable. 🎧📝 Tune in for the full story ⬇️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/T...