D&D General Radio Broadcasts in a D&D Setting?

[Mistwell]

I am curious to hear people's imaginative ideas on how to introduce radios into a D&D setting.

I don't want it to use radio waves. It should involve magic. If it can be seen as a natural expansion on some existing magic, like spells, all the better.

What kinds of radio programs would air? How else might they be used in a setting?

How could it be made to be affordable-enough in a larger city like Waterdeep that a decent number of people would have one and listen to shows?

 

[Leatherhead]

Someone took that idea and turned it into a program:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS10fbIqcTgkcqBE9XSrjZQ

Granted it's in Eberron, where it's a bit more workable due to the industrialized magic, but same idea basically.

 

[Zardnaar]

Fallout 4 radio.

Familiar with FO4?

 

[loverdrive]

In Mulmaster it would be anti-magic propaganda, hypocriticaly transmitted through magical means.

 

[BookTenTiger]

I think a variation on Magic Mouth and Sending would be neat. I especially like how Magic Mouth, when cast on an object with a mouth (such as a statue or a painting), produces the illusion of that object talking. There could be little radio statues that actually speak the broadcast!

 

[Zardnaar]

Bio engineered via magic critters that are linked and can speak.

 

[BookTenTiger]

What about a group of Warlocks who all worship The Voice, a mysterious force that can transmit ideas, sounds, and even music through its thrall?

 

[J-H]

The Wandering Inn, a fairly long web serial, has fairly-recently introduced this. Wistram, the wizard college (and a global power broker) has begun broadcasting programming receivable by anyone with a scrying orb, or any mirror enchanted to work as a scrying orb. This includes rebroadcast "live footage" from someone at a battle/event with a scrying orb, as well as commentary and entertainment programming.
Their global audience is probably a solid 5-figure number, composed primarily of the wealthier and more powerful set.

Scrying or variants thereof are, if anything, easier to adapt than Message, with its character limit.

 

[Mistwell]

Fallout 4 radio.

Familiar with FO4?

No but I am given to understand a radio comes tuned to just one station and you need different radios to listen to different stations?

 

[Tonguez]

Why radio when you can use a Magic Mirror to broadcast TV?