AIBD Supports World Radio Day

Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) has committed to support the Spanish Radio Academy’s proposal to UNESCO to establish a “World Radio Day” as part of the UN calendar.

AIBD Director Yang Binyuan says this initiative will reinforce radio’s critical role as one of humanity’s useful inventions for decades and the most universal media, free and accessible to the majority of the world’s populatio

Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) has committed to support the Spanish Radio Academy’s proposal to UNESCO to establish a “World Radio Day” as part of the UN calendar.

AIBD Director Yang Binyuan says this initiative will reinforce radio’s critical role as one of humanity’s useful inventions for decades and the most universal media, free and accessible to the majority of the world’s population.

Radio, more than any other media, deserves a “World Radio Day,” to be celebrated by radio professionals and millions of radio listeners around the world.

AIBD considers it appropriate to have 30th October as the annual “World Radio Day.” This is the date of the first broadcasting of one of the most relevant and well-known programs in radio’s history, “The War of the Worlds”. This radio drama was directed by Orson Welles and broadcast by CBS on the 30th of October 1938 and since then radio stations all over the world have produced countless versions of it in their own languages.

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