Radio category: 327 books

JOHN MYERS is the most influential man in British commercial radio since Marconi, according to broadcaster Jeremy Vine, who has written the foreword to this hilarious autobiography.During 30 years in the radio business radio, Myers rose from local radio DJ to become boss of one of Britain’s biggest...

'The distilled wisdom and passion of top practitioners makes this an invaluable guide to making radio in Australia.' - Siobhan McHugh, award-winning radio feature producer and lecturer, University of Wollongong 'a very useful hands-on guide to radio production in Australia' - Gail Phillips,...

Do you want to discover everything there is to know about Ham Radio? Well, then this book is what you are looking for! In "Ham Radio: from Beginner to Badass", you will learn how to start your very own radio station, what licence you need and everything there is to know about...

A Practical, What-You-Need-to-Know Guide to Getting on D-Star D-Star is a powerful system for linking the worlds of amateur radio and the Internet. You can link your handheld radio to repeaters, individuals, or reflectors located anywhere in the world, quickly and easily. And because it’s all digital,...

"Back in my day, radios came with a CW key and a frequency knob, and that was all we needed." --Every Old Ham Curmudgeon OK, that's probably a slight exaggeration, but radios were a lot simpler in the "distant" past, when everything was station-to-station, and most communications...

RADIO AND THE JEWS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW RADIO INFLUENCED AMERICA'S IMAGE OF JEWS, 1920s-1950s by David S. Siegel and Susan Siegel  From stereotypes to role models, the first comprehensive look at how Jews were portrayed on radio from the 1920s to the 1950s. -- From struggling...

The average American listens to the radio three hours a day. In light of recent technological developments such as internet radio, some argue that the medium is facing a crisis, while others claim we are at the dawn of a new radio revolution. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio is an essential...

This new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. With a new foreword and five new essays, this book...

Cleveland has long enjoyed its reputation as one of the hottest music centers in the country and as the Rock 'n' Roll Capital of the World. Trends started or gained major recognition in Cleveland and were fueled by local radio stations and their disc jockeys, who connected with their audience and...

'Jim Beaman’s Interviewing for Radio is a classic and seminal practice text, brilliantly written and masterful in its content. Nobody working in professional radio can do without it. It is a must for all radio courses and I could not recommend it more highly' - Tim Crook, Head of Radio, Goldsmiths...

An inside look at the hosts, hot spots, and history of sports-talk radio Sports-Talk Radio in America looks at major-, medium-, and small-market stations across the United States that feature an all-sports format, with a focus on the unique personalities and programming strategies that make...

Your how-to guide to become a ham Ham radio, or amateur radio, is a way to talk with people around the world in real-time, or to send email without any sort of internet connection. It provides a way to keep in touch with friends and family, whether they are across town or across the country....

Despite the all-pervading influence of television ninety per cent of people in Britain still listen to the radio, clocking up over a billion hours of listening between us every week. It's a background to all our lives: we wake up to our clock radios, we have the radio on in the kitchen as we make...

Cognitive Radio Communications and Networks gives comprehensive and balanced coverage of the principles of cognitive radio communications, cognitive networks, and details of their implementation, including the latest developments in the standards and spectrum policy. Case studies, end-of-chapter...