Partnering to Tell an Extraordinary Story
Science. Innovation. Discovery. Human Connection.
Radio is one of the most transformative technologies in human history.
It connects billions of people, supports modern medicine, enables scientific discovery, guides transportation, provides essential emergency communications, and allows humanity to explore the universe.
Yet the extraordinary science and human ingenuity behind radio remain largely invisible.
The Story of Radio is an international multimedia initiative designed to bring this remarkable story to audiences around the world.
Through a one-hour public television documentary, a 30-minute immersive planetarium production, digital storytelling, and K–16 educational resources, the project will explore the technologies and people shaping our wireless world.
The production combines experienced filmmakers, immersive production specialists, scientists, engineers, educators, and amateur radio enthusiasts.
We invite corporations, foundations, scientific institutions, educational organizations, and philanthropic supporters to help bring this extraordinary story to life.
Our Production Partners
Experienced Storytellers. A Shared Vision.
The Story of Radio brings together expertise in public media, international immersive production, scientific research, and educational storytelling.
These relationships provide the foundation for a project designed to reach audiences through complementary media platforms while maintaining scientific accuracy, editorial independence, and broad educational accessibility.
Southern Oregon PBS
Proposed Public Television Presenting Station
Southern Oregon PBS (SOPBS) is the proposed presenting station for The Story of Radio.
The documentary is being developed for national public television distribution, with the objective of reaching audiences through participating PBS stations and associated digital platforms.
Under a finalized agreement, SOPBS would provide the public media framework for the documentary, including underwriting administration, production coordination, and distribution planning.
The collaboration is intended to combine the educational mission and editorial standards of public media with cinematic storytelling and engaging scientific exploration.
Mirage3D
Immersive Full-Dome Production Partner
Mirage3D, based in the Netherlands, is the immersive production partner for The Story of Radio.
Specializing in full-dome filmmaking and immersive visual storytelling, Mirage3D brings the creative and technical expertise required to translate complex scientific concepts into compelling experiences for planetariums and science centers.
Our collaboration combines Mirage3D's immersive production capabilities with the project's documentary research, scientific storytelling, and educational objectives.
Together, we aim to create an experience that inspires curiosity and makes the invisible world of radio accessible to international audiences.
Four Connected Media Experiences
One Story. Multiple Audiences.
The Story of Radio is designed as an integrated multimedia initiative.
Each component offers a distinct way to engage audiences while reinforcing the project's central themes of science, innovation, discovery, and human connection.
Together, these experiences create opportunities for organizations to support scientific understanding and education across multiple platforms.
Public Television Documentary
A National Broadcast Experience
The centerpiece of the project is a one-hour documentary developed for public television.
The film will explore radio's history, scientific foundations, contemporary applications, and continuing technological evolution.
Through original cinematography, interviews, archival material, and scientific visualization, audiences will encounter the people and discoveries that have transformed wireless communication.
The documentary will travel from the early experiments that revealed the existence of electromagnetic waves to the remarkable technologies shaping our world today.
Stories will include amateur radio, radio astronomy, medicine, emergency communications, wireless technology, and the innovators developing new applications for radio.
The documentary is intended for national public television distribution, with additional opportunities for digital access and educational use.
Underwriting participation offers organizations an opportunity for acknowledgment in association with an ambitious science and technology documentary, subject to applicable public television underwriting standards and agreements.
Immersive Planetarium Experience
A Journey Inside the Invisible Universe
Imagine standing inside the electromagnetic spectrum, watching radio waves travel across continents, or following a faint signal from a distant galaxy.
The 30-minute full-dome presentation will take audiences on a cinematic journey through the invisible forces connecting our planet and the universe beyond.
From the wireless networks surrounding Earth to radio astronomy, medical imaging, and deep-space exploration, the experience will reveal the extraordinary scientific applications of electromagnetic energy.
Designed for planetariums, science centers, and immersive theaters, the production will combine original animation, scientific visualization, and spatial sound to create an engaging educational experience.
Worldwide distribution is planned through the international planetarium community, leveraging the International Planetarium Society's global network.
Immersive production underwriting offers an opportunity to support a distinctive international science education experience, with recognition arrangements developed in accordance with applicable venue and distribution requirements.
Digital Stories and Online Experiences
Extending Discovery Beyond the Broadcast
The project's digital platform will expand upon subjects introduced in the documentary and immersive presentation.
Short-form stories, interviews, demonstrations, and supplementary material will allow audiences to explore individual subjects in greater depth.
Potential features include amateur radio experimentation, radio astronomy, wireless medicine, emergency communications, makers and innovators, and the technologies shaping everyday life.
Digital storytelling also provides an opportunity to follow subjects and participants beyond the boundaries of a one-hour documentary.
A classroom balloon experiment might be tracked across the globe.
An amateur radio operator might demonstrate communication using only a few watts of power.
Scientists might explain how radio telescopes reveal distant galaxies or how wireless technologies support medical research.
These stories will create opportunities for continued discovery and engagement.
Digital distribution can reach specialized communities, educators, students, and international audiences.
Partnership opportunities may include digital underwriting acknowledgments, website recognition, and support for individual educational or editorial content initiatives, consistent with applicable editorial and underwriting policies.
Education and STEM Engagement
Inspiring the Next Generation
The educational component of The Story of Radio will introduce K–16 students to the science and technology of wireless communication.
Planned resources include classroom materials, scientific visualizations, demonstrations, and hands-on learning activities.
Students may explore the electromagnetic spectrum, build simple receivers and antennas, learn Morse code, receive satellite transmissions, or participate in classroom balloon-tracking projects.
A small balloon equipped with a miniature radio transmitter can become an international scientific experiment as students follow its journey through telemetry received by radio enthusiasts around the world.
These experiences connect physics, engineering, mathematics, geography, meteorology, and computing with real-world applications.
The project's educational approach emphasizes curiosity, experimentation, and discovery.
Educational partnerships may involve schools, universities, scientific institutions, amateur radio organizations, and corporations committed to advancing STEM learning.
Opportunities for Partnership
Supporting Science, Innovation, and Public Understanding
The project offers several potential avenues for participation.
Public Television Underwriting
Support for the one-hour documentary, with appropriate underwriting acknowledgments developed in accordance with public television requirements.
Underwriting can help support original cinematography, scientific visualization, research, interviews, travel, editing, and post-production.
Immersive Production Support
Participation in the development of the 30-minute full-dome presentation.
This component is designed for international distribution to planetariums, science centers, and immersive educational venues.
Digital Media Underwriting
Support for short-form documentary stories, online educational experiences, and the project's digital platform.
Digital content will extend the documentary's reach and provide opportunities to explore individual subjects in greater depth.
Educational Partnerships
Collaboration on K–16 educational resources, classroom activities, scientific demonstrations, and STEM engagement.
Potential initiatives include amateur radio demonstrations, classroom balloon experiments, satellite tracking, and hands-on electronics projects.
Institutional and Scientific Collaboration
Opportunities for research institutions, museums, universities, and technical organizations to contribute expertise, access, scientific resources, and educational collaboration.
Partnership arrangements will be developed individually to align organizational interests with the project's educational objectives and editorial standards.
Why Partner with The Story of Radio?
A Subject That Touches Nearly Every Industry
Few scientific subjects connect such a wide range of disciplines and industries.
Radio is fundamental to telecommunications, aerospace, medicine, transportation, manufacturing, computing, scientific research, emergency preparedness, and education.
It is equally important to the communities of amateur experimenters, engineers, makers, and innovators who continue to explore new applications of wireless technology.
This breadth creates opportunities for organizations to support a project that connects their fields of expertise with larger stories of scientific progress and human achievement.
The project's multiple media formats offer different ways to engage audiences, from public television viewers to planetarium visitors, students, educators, and online communities.
The international nature of radio science also creates opportunities to connect organizations and audiences across national boundaries.
Experienced Documentary Leadership
A Record of Science and Educational Storytelling
The Story of Radio is being developed by filmmaker and producer Kris Koenig, whose work includes public television documentaries, immersive science productions, and educational media.
His credits include 400 Years of the Telescope, Sight: The Story of Vision, Seeing: A Photon's Journey Through Space and Mind, and Two Small Pieces of Glass.
His experience includes projects supported by the National Science Foundation and national public television underwriting.
The National Science Foundation supported 400 Years of the Telescope through a $3.1 million grant.
His documentary Sight: The Story of Vision secured more than $900,000 in public television underwriting.
His production work has received two Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards and numerous Telly Awards.
The project builds upon this experience in combining scientific accuracy, compelling visual storytelling, international production, and educational outreach.
Join the Story
Help Make the Invisible Visible
The Story of Radio offers an opportunity to participate in a multimedia project exploring one of humanity's most consequential scientific achievements.
From the signals connecting our everyday devices to the radio emissions arriving from distant galaxies, the story reaches across disciplines, cultures, and generations.
Through public television, immersive science experiences, digital storytelling, and education, the project will introduce audiences to the extraordinary invisible forces shaping our world.
We welcome conversations with corporations, foundations, scientific institutions, educational organizations, and philanthropic supporters interested in advancing science education, technological innovation, public media, and the exploration of our connected world.
Together, we can make the invisible world of radio visible to audiences around the globe.