But, why does the radio deserve an International Day? According to the ONU, an international day gets proclaimed by different things, like for example: To sensitize or raise awareness of a situation or a problem, as a termometer of interest, to remember an event of a story and so on. In this case, the radio finally owes an International Day to awareness of their importance and to improve the cooperation between issuers on an international level.
To start, it was Nicola Tesla, the one who invented a system to transmit voice messages wireless in 1895. Later on, it evolved and ended in what we know about radio today. Its existence is so important worldly that in 2012 it was adopted as an International Day.
The major concern nowadays is derived from the fact that the vast majority of the population uses television more than radio. Because, using the radio for listening to the news or to political discussions, we only require the sense of hearing. Additionally, those senders which only consist of music, are listened to less frequently, because nowadays, music can be listened to in a large number of online applications like Spotify, Apple music, or Youtube Music.
In contrast, the psychological effect of listening to the radio for a long time has absolutely nothing to do with watching many hours of television. This is, among other reasons, due to the fact that the radio is the medium that adapts better to our daily rhythm. For example, listening while we are moving to a place is not possible with television. So, why is the radio more important than we think?:
Listening daily to the radio helps us to obtain a stronger general culture. We are entertained. It keeps us company, since it makes us feel as if we are among friends (especially in social gatherings). It awakens our imagination: Radio plays an important role from a cognitive and emotional point of view in a more natural way. For example, it tells us about places or situations which we cannot see and therefore we imagine them.
And finally, a point which puts the radio as a medium that should deserve more popularity, the radio reliable, ahead of television and the written press, making it the most credible media.
According to SER (a Spanish broadcaster), among the Europeans, the level of trust in the radio rises almost to 60%, ahead of the 47% in the written press, and the 51% in the television.
The radio is reliable ahead of the written press principally because their broadcasters are not anonymous, unlike on the Internet, where any user can publish any news - fake or true.
In conclusion, the radio is a safe medium, with which you can spend seconds, minutes and hours listening to people talking about very interesting things, debates of any kind, songs you didn't know. You can learn new things and, above all, you can enjoy it in confidence because everything you hear here will be reliable and without any lies or deception.