About

A listening guide to radio history

RadioTime Machine is a free, non-commercial guide to original radio broadcasts from the 1960s, 70s and early 80s: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, the British pirate ships and Radio Luxembourg, the way they actually went out.

Where the tapes come from

• No audio is hosted here. Every broadcast plays directly from the Internet Archive, where collectors and archivists uploaded their off-air recordings. This site does not copy, store, re-encode or sell any recording.
• Every tape links to its original Internet Archive page, with the uploader’s own notes and rights information.
• The recordings, and the music in them, belong to their owners: the stations and their successors, the record labels, artists and songwriters. Nothing here claims otherwise.
• If you own the rights to a recording and want it removed, see Rights & takedown. Removal is quick and permanent.

The stories

• Station histories are written for this site, with a link to the Wikipedia article they draw on.
• DJ biographies are either loaded live from Wikipedia (shown as “From Wikipedia”, text available under CC BY-SA 4.0), or short summaries written for this site, with their sources linked under each one.
• Spotted a mistake? Corrections are welcome: rights@radiotimemachine.org.

No money changes hands

No ads, no subscriptions, nothing for sale, and no paid access to any recording. RadioTime Machine is not affiliated with the Internet Archive, Wikipedia, or any radio station, record label or broadcaster named on the site. Station names and call letters belong to their owners and are used only to describe the recordings.

Last updated 15 November 2026