During most of its history as a news agency audio service. UPI
produced a program at the end of the year .. summarizing the
previous year's major developments.
It included the sounds of newsmakers and events and in most
years, the voices of UPI reporters.
In the early 1960's UPI had a competitor in
the audio field. Despite the similarity in names, Radio Press
International was not originally related to United Press
International ... it had been formed from a couple of smaller
services for radio stations, combining parts of their names. It
also produced yearend highlight programs.
On January 1, 1966, UPI aquired RPI and merged
it with its existing Audio service, with staff members from both.
The "yearenders" below include three
of RPI's programs and UPI's from 1959 to 1994.
The formats changed somewhat through the years
... with reporters highlighted in some years and not in others.
Two other yearenders were produced in 1995 and 1996 but are not
currently available.
These files are highly compressed in the mp3 format. The longer
ones might take a little time to download.
The current UPI has posted excerpts
from these programs, with transcripts and pictures.
Click HERE to go to the UPI website for those excerpts.