The radio is one of the world’s greatest inventions. National Radio Day was invented to celebrate the radio for providing information and entertainment to millions of people worldwide. It also helps improve communication for the armed forces and is a great asset for ships captains and pilots for navigation.
With the arrival of television and the internet with streaming websites, the radio’s popularity is constantly declining. To celebrate National Radio Day, you can show some support by listening to your favorite radio and get others to do so as well.
Background
The radio was invented by a joint effort from researchers all over the world. It was a long process involving scientists discovering a component such as electromagnetic induction, radio waves, and electric conduction.
Some important names that contributed to the success of this invention include Heinrich Hertz, a German inventor who discovered radio waves that enable electricity to travel wirelessly. Gugliemo Marconi, in the 1890s, also found a way for long-distance communication to happen using a radio. Lee de Forest invented the Audion vacuum in the 1900s so live broadcast could be using radio.
Enjoy some radio-related jokes.
1. My dad always says not to crank the car radio too high or I’ll go deaf. Imagine if that happened.
I would never hear the end of it.
2. One day, a blonde woman was driving her car through the countryside when she listened to the radio.
The only available station was a comedy station that kept telling blonde joke after blonde joke, which annoyed the blonde.
She turned off the radio and decided to look at the scenery to calm herself down, but then she saw something even more infuriating. Another blonde woman was sitting in a boat in the middle of a cornfield, trying to row the boat!
The first blonde pulled over, rolled down her window, and shouted at the other blonde: “Thanks to blondes like you, all we blondes have been given a bad name. If I could swim, I’d get out there and drown you!”
3. Can radio be an addiction?
Depends on the frequency.
4. Babe, why did you get these new radios? Our relationship is over.
Our relationship is what? Over.
5. My dad gave up his job of being a late-night radio DJ.
He took up a new job as a railway construction worker. Talk about a career change, but I guess he just couldn’t give up his love for laying tracks.
6. The metal strip in paper currency is sensitive to microwave and radio waves.
Because it apparently tends to burn a hole in the pocket.
7. If turning down the radio while driving improves eyesight…
Then blind people shouldn’t drive with the radio on.
8. I heard over the radio there was a maniac on the loose!
I got so scared I almost missed the pedestrians!
9. Today, I saw a car parked with a bumper sticker that said, “I miss New York.”
So I smashed his window in and stole his radio.
10. A guy walks into a radio store.
He then says, “god, there are so many stereotypes.”
Enjoy some more jokes here.
