I am convinced that "National Days" are a last ditch effort to save dying industries. Not sure who listens to actual radio these days. Marketing professional aside, I hate listening to radio commercials so I spring for Satellite Radio. And I am aware that you can stream in most modern automobiles.
My grandmother lived next door to us growing up. She didn't have a television. She had an old radio from the 30s or 40s and would listen to it every day. I couldn't image how she survived without television. It would be like not having a phone or the Internet today.
Granted, I listened to the radio back then. We didn't have much choice when it came to listening to music. I had several old transistor radios. It was mainly AM (Amplitude Modulation) that was later replaced by FM (Frequency Modulation) that was theoretically better sound quality. But we still had shit speakers.
When I worked at the public library we'd listen to radio in the work room where we'd check in books and make library cards. I listened to this rock station that had a movie trivia quiz contest every Friday. You could win tickets to local theaters (mainly drive ins). I was really good at movie trivia and we had multiple line phones so I was good at dialing the station when they had the contest. I pretty much won tickets every weekend and won tickets for everyone else who worked at the library. That downside was you had to go to the radio station to pick up the tickets. The DJ got to know me by name and then by face when I would go into the station to get the tickets. He sounded like this big guy with a super boom voice. But when I met him, he was a skinny little guy with long hair and a porn star mustache. It taught me why video did kill the radio star. I've never met anyone who worked in radio who was very good looking.
Anyway, as I was saying, the "National Days" thing does seem to celebrate things that are obsolete or on the road there. Tomorrow is National Senior Citizen Day.
Need I say more?
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