As 2025 draws to a close, we pause with full hearts to thank you—our readers, supporters, collectors, broadcasters, families, and friends—who have mad
As 2025 draws to a close, we pause with full hearts to thank you—our readers, supporters, collectors, broadcasters, families, and friends—who have made the USA Radio Museum far more than an archive. Because of you, it is a living, breathing celebration of the voices that shaped our culture, connected communities, and defined how America listened.
Throughout this year, you helped us honor broadcast legends, preserve rare recordings, uncover forgotten stories, and shine a light on the men and women in front of and behind the microphone who changed radio—and in doing so, changed us. Every tribute you read, every memory you shared, and every message you sent reinforced the importance of this work and reminded us that radio’s impact lives well beyond the moment a broadcast ends.
Many of you may not know that the USA Radio Museum grew out of the long-running Motor City Radio Flashbacks project. In November 2024, we began the transition from a Detroit-focused archive to a national museum dedicated to preserving America’s radio heritage. When we officially launched our new website on March 4, 2025, it marked a turning point. Thanks to your engagement, encouragement, and enthusiasm, this site now has more than 190 published features, tributes, and historical posts. What began as a regional labor of love has become a nationwide home for radio history, memory, and storytelling.
Radio has always been about connection. And in 2025, you proved once again that this connection endures—not only in the static of an old aircheck or the glow of a studio light, but in the community of broadcasters and fans that gather to remember, reflect, and keep these stories alive. The USA Radio Museum exists because people still care deeply about radio’s history, where the voices came from and why they mattered.
Looking ahead, we’re excited to share that 2026 will be a landmark year for the USA Radio Museum. Together, co-publishers Jim Hampton and Jim Feliciano are shaping an ambitious slate of new features, restorations, tributes, and interactive experiences that are bigger, richer, and more immersive than anything we’ve done before—and we look forward to bringing you along for every moment.
Thank you for standing with us.
Thank you for caring about history.
Thank you for helping us preserve the magic.
From all of us at the USA Radio Museum, we wish you a peaceful, joyful, and inspiring New Year. Here’s to the voices we’ve honored, the memories we’ve shared, and the stories still waiting to be told in 2026. May the stories we cherish continue to guide us, inspire us, and bring us together in the year ahead.
USA Radio Museum. Honoring the voices, preserving the memories, and telling the stories that shaped how America listened.
