The History of World Radio Day
WORLD RADIO DAY
SUNDAY 13TH FEBRUARY 2022

Proclaimed in 2011 by the Member States of UNESCO and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 as an International Day, February 13 became World Radio Day (WRD).
Radio is a powerful medium for celebrating humanity in all its diversity and constitutes a platform for democratic discourse. At the global level, radio remains the most widely consumed medium. This unique ability to reach out the widest audience means radio can shape a society’s experience of diversity, stand as an arena for all voices to speak out, be represented and heard. Radio stations should serve diverse communities, offering a wide variety of programs, viewpoints and content, and reflect the diversity of audiences in their organisations and operations.
Radio is a low-cost medium specifically suited to reaching remote communities and vulnerable people, offering a platform to intervene in the public debate, irrespective of people’s educational level. It also plays a crucial role in emergency communication and disaster relief.
Radio is uniquely positioned to bring communities together and foster positive dialogue for change. By listening to its audiences and responding to their needs, radio services provide the diversity of views and voices needed to address the challenges we all face
The physical radio design has changed immensely since it’s invention and from a cumbersome large chunk of Bakelite to tiny earbuds! There’s even solar powered wind up radios for people in countries without electricity so every one can listen to broadcasts.
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OUR MISSION
This month our mission is to find Jive Bunny who is hiding in one of the pics that we will tweet, so make a note of which pic you see him in. In each pic there will be a photo of a radio from the first to the latest earbuds, it’s amazing how it’s changed over the decades.
At the end of the pics we’ll ask you 3 simple questions, the answers are in the above intel article so make sure you read it all!
Then finally our fabby photo caption competition. Think up something funny it’s that easy.
When you’ve done all that just put all your answers in a tweet using our hashtag #XPSHQ and we, the XPets admin team (posh name for pen pushers and button pressers) will pick the overall winner and a runner up if the captions are so brilliant we can’t decide on just one winner.

So see you there, erm… on Twitter at 7pm UK time pals!
Over and out!