Picture this:
You’re in your twilight years – many years from now! 🙂
You’re talking to your grandchildren about what they missed from this great “old” mass medium called radio – circa the early 2000s and dating back to the 1990s, the 1980s, the 1970s, and to even more ancient times during the Twentieth Century.
Your young audience looks at you glassy-eyed. They’re confused. They’ve never heard this “radio” thing you’re so excited about. But one brave youngster finally asks if there’s anyway they let hear what you’re describing.
Well, thanks to an organization formed about two years ago by the Library of Congress (LOC), you’ll be able to positively respond to that request.
During the end of February 2016, the LOC’s Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF) Conference – Saving America’s Radio Heritage: Radio Preservation, Access, and Education – brought together scholars, archivists and all manner of radio lovers from throughout America and beyond, to talk about ways to find and preserve radio programs, documents and history.
Denison University Associate Professor Bill Kirkpatrick was one of the conference attendees, and he spoke with the RPTF ‘s National Research Director Josh Sheppard, National Recording Preservation Foundation Executive Director Gerald Seligman, the Archives Center’s Audiovisual Archivist Wendy Shay and myself.
So check out the feature Prof. Kirkpatrick produced using those interviews, along with archival tape, for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ 
ACA-MEDIA podcast.
Happy listening!