1945: The Year in Radio News
US networks (recorded off air)
US networks (recorded off air) · 1945–1945
435 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1945
The run
- Network
- US networks (recorded off air)
- Years active
- 1945–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 435
- Genre
- news
News from 1945. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1945 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 82 years on the air, with 73 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. The Last Train Out · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. Night Broadcast · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 3 Dec 2024
Night Broadcast
4 Aug 2026 · 27 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Last Train Out
28 Jul 2026 · 42 min
The one everybody argues about.
Signal at Midnight
21 Jul 2026 · 57 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
A Room Above the Street
14 Jul 2026 · 20 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Long Silence
7 Jul 2026 · 35 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
30 Jun 2026 · 50 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
23 Jun 2026 · 1h 5m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
16 Jun 2026 · 28 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
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 1945: The Year in Radio News
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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