The Los Angeles Archive and Network
The Foundation of Our Network: Los Angeles
The Los Angeles hub is the flagship of our expanding collector network, which includes Birmingham and New York City. All live, real-time demonstrations of our collectors in action. The LA site alone has been capturing continuous 24/7 over-the-air broadcast recordings for all of Los Angeles since 2020.
By the Numbers
- Scale: Over 1 million hours of indexed audio (as of 6/1/26) and growing by hundreds of hours per day
- Coverage: 30+ AM and FM stations across news, talk, music, sports, religious, Spanish-language, and other formats
- Depth: Continuous recordings dating back to 2020
- Content: Demodulated audio, time-encoded transcripts, station metadata, and full capture provenance
This archive captures the full diversity of real-world broadcast audio: spontaneous speech, professional production, multiple languages, varying signal quality, and natural acoustic conditions.
Access available for training and analysis. Email us at admin [at] radio-archive [dot] org to get started.