Search results for “[subject: radio]”

• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General During the "golden age" of live radio and television, writers, performers, and producers created their pro...

• Author(s): Alfred Balk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism As the dominant form of electronic mass communication in the United States from the 1930s into the...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio What became of radio after its Golden Age ended about 1960? Not long ago Arbitron found that almost 93 percent of Americans age ...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General Long before the invention of "talk radio," music was the heart and soul of radio programming--whether standing alone, ...

• Author(s): Ryan Ellett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General This volume profiles about 300 African American (and a few white) performers, organizations and series broadcast d...

• Author(s): Jeanette M. Berard | Klaudia Englund • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Who were the 35 actors that performed with stars Bud Abbott and Lou Coste...

• Author(s): Robert J. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first politician to recognize the power of radio. He appealed directly to the Amer...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - Reference This is an encyclopedic reference work to 1,802 radio programs broadcast from the years 1924 through 1984. E...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism The openings and closings to radio programs of all types, from comedies (Blondie, The Jack Ben...

• Author(s): Richard H. Cummings • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty broadcast uncensored news and com...

• Author(s): George H. Douglas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Precisely how and why radio developed as it did is a fascinating story, told with authority ...

• Author(s): Jerome S. Berg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism As radio developed in the early 1920s, the focus for most people was the AM band and stations s...

• Author(s): Jim Harmon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism In 1967, Jim Harmon published the first edition of The Great Radio Heroes to great acclaim. Thirty-...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General Before television, radio was the sole source of simultaneous mass entertainment in America. The medium served as launc...

• Author(s): Francine Silverman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This book seeks to bridge the gap between show hosts and prospective guests, providing a reference gui...

• Author(s): Jack French | David S. Siegel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General This is a comprehensive encyclopedia to the more than 100 radio programs portraying the American...

• Author(s): Philip A. Lieberman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Lengthy biographies are provided for 28 of the most prominent trendsetting morning men, including Gene Rayburn, "B...

• Author(s): Allen S. Weiss • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Acoustics & SoundThis book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experime...

• Author(s): Lewis Coe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio In 1873 Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell first advanced the idea that there might be electromagnetic waves that were sim...

• Author(s): Bob Lochte • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christian Life - General Religious programming has been on the airwaves since broadcasting began, but today it is one of the fastes...

• Author(s): Richard J. Hand • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism The macabre world of monsters, killers on the loose and revenge from beyond the grave existed ...

• Author(s): Jerome S. Berg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Shortwave broadcasting originated in the 1920s, when stations used the new technology to increa...

• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism To today's radio listener, it is difficult to imagine the influence radio once held over the Am...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism This work contains the histories of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Art Linkletter's House Party, Brea...

• Author(s): Mitchell E. Shapiro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Difficult as it is for some to imagine what people relied on for home entertainment in the...

• Author(s): Jerome S. Berg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism The discovery and development of shortwave technology during the 1920s and 1930s permitted radi...

• Author(s): Jerome S. Berg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio In July 1923, less than three years after Westinghouse station KDKA signed on, company engineer Frank Conrad began regula...

• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism To today's radio listener, it is difficult to imagine the influence radio once held over the Am...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Until the late 1940s, most Americans relied heavily upon radio, the only means of mass communication t...

• Author(s): Eldon L. Ham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General There is a long-standing relationship between broadcasting and sports, and nowhere is this more evident than i...

• Author(s): Tim DeForest • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism During the first half of the 20th century, radio's hunger for captivating characters and stories ...

• Author(s): Jim Harmon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference From the 1920s to the 1950s, radio was the entertainment source for millions. Two of the primary themes of radio serials ...

• Author(s): Tony Silvia • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This narrative contains the documentation and interpretation of two imaginative pastimes (radio and baseball) a...