UN Headquarters

World Radio Day

13 February 2026

Proclaimed in 2011 by UNESCO and endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012, World Radio Day marks the day United Nations Radio was established in 1946.

Radio is a powerful medium for celebrating humanity in all its diversity and constitutes a platform for democratic discourse. At the global level, radio remains the most widely consumed medium.

A microphone and a pair of headphones in one of the studios at UN Headquarters.

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