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Radio Canada International
Radio Canada International (RCI) is CBC/Radio-Canada's multilingual international service, founded as the CBC International Service in 1942, first broadcast February 25, 1945 from Montreal and Sackville, renamed RCI in 1970, web-only since 2012.
Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline, founded by Ronan O'Rahilly, is the British offshore "pirate" radio station that first broadcast 28 March 1964 from a ship off Essex, broke the BBC monopoly, survived the 1967 Marine Offences Act, and since 2017 broadcasts legally on 648 AM.
Radio Central (Rocky Point)
Radio Central was a major RCA transoceanic radio facility in Rocky Point, New York. It utilized 200 kW Alexanderson alternators and a 5 km flat-top antenna system.
Radio Ceylon announcers of the Sinhala service
The Radio Ceylon announcers of the Sinhala service were the Sinhala-language broadcasting staff of Ceylon's state radio from 1950 to 1967, whose voices, including Karunaratne Abeysekera's, reached listeners across Asia.
Radio Citizen
Radio Citizen, also known as Radio Citizen FM, is an all-Kiswahili FM station in Nairobi, Kenya, owned by Royal Media Services and often ranked Kenya's most listened-to station.
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall, at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, opened December 27, 1932 as an Art Deco theater designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey. It remains the world's largest indoor theater, home of the Rockettes and the Christmas Spectacular, with a landmarked 1932 hydraulic stage.
Radio clock
A radio clock, also called a radio-controlled clock, is a quartz clock that keeps exact time by decoding a broadcast radio time signal, adjusting itself for daylight saving time.
Radio Data System
The Radio Data System (RDS), also called Radio Broadcast Data System, is a standard for sending digital data alongside FM radio to display station names and traffic announcements.
Radio Disney
Radio Disney was a Walt Disney Company children's radio network launched November 18, 1996 by ABC Radio Networks, airing Top 40-style music for kids under 12; it peaked at 97% U.S. coverage, then shut down in 2021, with the Latin American operation continuing.
Radio Disney Music Awards
The Radio Disney Music Awards (RDMAs, later ARDYs) were annual listener-voted music awards from Radio Disney: audio-only from about 2001–2002, televised Disney Channel ceremonies 2013–2019, ending with Radio Disney's 2021 shutdown.
Radio drama
Radio drama, also called audio drama or audio theater, is a purely acoustic performance telling stories through dialogue, music, and sound effects alone, peaking in popularity from 1929 through World War II.
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), Portugal's state-owned public broadcaster, distinct from the RTP payments network and Research Triangle Park. Radio from 1935, television from 7 March 1957, merged single company since 2004, funded mainly by the CAV electricity-bill fee.
Radio environment map
A radio environment map (REM) is a database combining spectrum use, terrain, regulations, and radio locations to support cognitive radio networks, proposed at Virginia Tech in 2006.
Radio Farda
Radio Farda, meaning "Radio Tomorrow" in Persian, is a US-funded Persian-language radio service for Iran, launched in 2002, mixing news with pop music for young Iranians.
Radio feature
A radio feature is a long-form documentary radio program combining original sound recordings, narration, music, and noise into artistically shaped treatments of real subjects, established in Germany after World War II.
Radio Flyer (film)
Radio Flyer is a 1992 American fantasy-drama directed by Richard Donner, written by David Mickey Evans, starring Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Lorraine Bracco, and narrated by Tom Hanks; two brothers build a flying machine from a red wagon to escape an abusive stepfather. Box office flop, 35% Tomatometer.
Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale (RFI) is the French public international news radio, created in 1975, part of France Médias Monde since 2008, broadcasting in French and 16 other languages with 59.5 million weekly listeners in 2022.
Radio Free Albemuth
Radio Free Albemuth (originally VALISYSTEM A) is Philip K. Dick's posthumously published 1985 dystopian novel, written in 1976, about Nicholas Brady, President Ferris F. Fremont, and the Valis satellite, later reworked into VALIS.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a Prague-headquartered, US Congress-funded nonprofit broadcaster providing uncensored news in local languages; founded 1950 as RFE and 1953 as RL, CIA-funded until 1971, merged 1976, now facing US funding cuts and service closures.
Radio frequency
Radio frequency (RF) is the range of electromagnetic wave frequencies from 8.3 kHz to 3000 GHz, divided into bands for radio, television, mobile telephony, radar, and satellites.
Radio Ga Ga
Radio Ga Ga: 1984 Queen single written by Roger Taylor for The Works, inspired by his son's "radio ca ca"; UK number 2, hit in 19 countries, famous for its Live Aid double handclap and Lady Gaga's stage name.
Radio galaxy
A radio galaxy is a galaxy whose active nucleus, powered by a supermassive black hole, launches twin jets inflating vast magnetized lobes that emit strongly at radio wavelengths.
Radio Garden
Radio Garden is a free web and mobile app, launched December 2016 by Jonathan Puckey and Moniker for the HERA-funded Transnational Radio Encounters project, letting users stream 40,000+ live radio stations by rotating a 3D globe.
Radio halo
A radio halo is a diffuse region of synchrotron radio emission at the center of a galaxy cluster, produced by relativistic electrons in magnetic fields.
Radio Havana Cuba
Radio Havana Cuba (Radio Habana Cuba) is Cuba's state-run international shortwave station, announced by Fidel Castro in 1961 and broadcasting continuously from Havana since then.
Radio interferometry
Radio interferometry is a radio astronomy technique that combines signals from separated antennas to synthesize high-resolution sky images, developed by Martin Ryle, who won the 1974 Nobel Prize in physics.
Radio jamming
Radio jamming is deliberate transmission on another service's frequencies to block reception. Covers ITU definitions, Soviet Cold War jamming from 1948 to 1988, countermeasures, and modern cases in China, Iran, and GNSS.
Radio K.A.O.S.
Radio K.A.O.S. is Roger Waters' second solo album, a June 1987 EMI/Columbia concept record about Billy, a Welsh boy who hears radio waves, contacts an L.A. station, and fakes a nuclear attack; it peaked at No. 50.
Radio Man
Radio Man (Radioman), Craig Castaldo, born 1950, American background actor with 300+ film and TV extra appearances, known for a radio worn around his neck on New York sets; subject of the 2012 documentary Radioman and The Real Radioman series.
Radio masts and towers
Radio masts and towers are elevated structures supporting antennas for broadcasting, wireless communication, and microwave links; a tower is self-supporting, while a mast is held upright by guy wires.