Good morning! 
It’s Saturday, 13 February 2021 (W6/D44/321 rem)
Today is 
World Radio Day 
It’s been over 130 years since the word radio was first used to describe Hertz’s wave experiments. Now, 130 years later, the radio remains one of the most important inventions for communications on a global scale.
Radio has been recognized as having such a profound impact on the world that the Spanish Radio Academy put in a formal request to the UN to have 13 February declared “World Radio Day”. In September 2011 the proposal was ratified and UNESCO officially proclaimed that it be established the following February.
So it was that the first World Radio Day was celebrated on 13 February, 2012. UNESCO describes the radio as “a powerful medium for celebrating humanity in all its diversity and constituting a platform for democratic discourse.”
World Radio Day 2021 (WRD 2021) celebrates radio as part of humanity’s history by following the various developments in our society and adapting its services. As the world changes, so does radio. Thus, during the Covid-19 pandemic, radio made it possible, for example, to ensure continuity of learning, to fight against misinformation, and to promote barrier gestures.
“New World, New Radio” is, therefore, an ode to the resilience of radio. It is a tribute to its capacity for perpetual adaptation at the rate of societal transformations and listeners’ new needs. Accessible anywhere and anytime, radio reaches a broad audience. It presents itself as an arena where all voices can be expressed, represented, and heard hence why radio is still the most consumed medium worldwide today.
Whether you tune in on your mobile, dig out your old battery powered boom box, or turn on a good old fashioned “wireless” radio today, do it. To cross-quote Leary: Turn on, tune in, drop out!
Have a super Saturday 