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Did you know ...

• in 1899 the Russian battleship Tri Sviatitelia became the first ship in the world to be fitted with a radio – an installation designed by A. S. Popov that had a range of about 3 miles (4.8 km)?
• during World War II, Jan Dahm, Leif Utne and Bjarne Thorsen helped operate an illegal radio transmitter in Bergen codenamed "Theta"?
• as a state legislator Ron Gomez, previously the radio voice of the ULL Ragin' Cajuns, worked to build the team's arena, the Cajundome, in Lafayette, Louisiana?
• a crystal set is the simplest kind of radio receiver?
• the Bhutan Broadcasting Service had transmitted radio broadcasts for many years, but only commenced with television broadcasts in 1999?
• the fictional radio listeners Dave and Sue exemplify the target audience for BBC Local Radio?
• while they were part of the hit television war sitcom Dad's Army, Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender were also acting in the radio series Parsley Sidings?
• the sinking of the Nantucket Lightship LV58 on December 10, 1905 was the first time that an American ship transmitted a distress signal by radio?
• the first series of British radio stand-up comedy show Mark Steel's in Town was recorded in Skipton, Boston, Lewes, Walsall, Merthyr Tydfil and the Isle of Portland?
• You Bet Your Life was a radio and television quiz show hosted by Groucho Marx?
• Science Service used to broadcast information from its Science News magazine on the radio?
• Hereford, Texas, broadcaster Clint Formby's daily commentary is the longest-running program by a single host in radio history?
• conservative radio talk show host Moon Griffon, who broadcasts statewide from Monroe, is sometimes known as the Rush Limbaugh of Louisiana?
• actor and broadcaster Dean Miller, who played the son-in-law on CBS's December Bride, later bought what became WMVR-FM radio in his native Ohio?
• radio broadcaster Scruff Connors hosted a continuous 36-hour program to raise funds for cancer research in 1980?
• BASICODE programs were broadcast by radio for recording onto compact audio cassettes, and could run on nearly all 8-bit home computers of the 1980s?
• Ladipo Solanke, long the Secretary-General of the West African Students' Union, was the first person to broadcast on the radio in the Yoruba language?
• broadcasting in the Soviet Union was so secretive that they didn't disclose the frequencies the domestic radio stations operated on, thus leaving SWLs wanting to tune into Soviet radio to memorize the frequencies and remember where the sites were?
• Binaca Geetmala was a Radio Ceylon countdown program of hit Indian film songs that was the most listened to radio program in India for portions of its 42-year run?
• "The fate of the language", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13, 1962, was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society?