The Radio Conference 2009: a Transnational Forum will be hosted by the Communication Studies Program at York University,  by the York-Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. The conference will take place at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in July 2009 and the Radio Studies Network.

The Radio Studies Network has been holding international conferences since 2001. This will be its fifth. Previous conferences include:

• The Radio Conference, the Fourth Transnational Forum, 16-19 July 2007, Lincoln, UK.
  Following Sussex, Madison and Melbourne (see below) the Radio Studies Network organised the fourth Transnational Forum.
• The Radio Conference, Melbourne
  11-14 July 2005. Following the 2001: aRadiodyssey conference in the UK and the Madison conference in 2003, the RSN supported this transnational forum in Melbourne.
• Together with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the network organised The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, between July 28-31, 2003.
• The network organised the international conferences 2001: a Radiodyssey?, University of Sussex, Brighton, 19-20 July, 2001.