Non-stop radio. The end of broadcasting night closure and the beginning of continuous programming in Spain

Abstract

The fading of the end of daily broadcast and the 24-hour broadcasting constitute one of the key factors to determine the evolution of radio broadcasting in each country. In the case of Spain, the end of the nocturnal rest didn't happen definitively until the very late seventies. However, as it happens in every process, before this milestone happened, different initiatives took place that grounded the basis for continuous broadcasting. More specifically, the first 24 hour broadcasting dates back to 1965, and was launched by Radio Nacional de España. This study deepens in this phenomenon, describing and analyzing, not only the information about the programming schedules of the different stations during the first fifty years of history of Spanish radio, but collecting the impressions of some of the people that witnessed this transformation of the programming schedules in first hand.