Radio category: 327 books
by Jan Ake Dellenbrant
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Incorporating an oral history approach, this history of radio covers the impact of the arrival of television, the rise of transistor radios, the popularity of rock n' roll, FM stereo stations, underground radio of the sixties, talk radio, public radio, and how technology will affect its future.
by Various Anonymous Naval Personnel, Timothy Moses
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This volume primarily deals, in simple language, with function and behavior of radio waves, and construction and function of antennas. It is a must have for the bookshekf of any science or electronics enthiusiast.
PROPAGATION means "movement through a medium." In this case, ...
by Ian Hickman, EUR.ING, BSc Hons
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Radio Frequency (RF) is the fundamental technology behind a huge range of modern consumer electronics and wireless communication devices, and this book provides a comprehensive and methodical guide to RF for engineers, technicians, enthusiasts and hobbyists with an interest in the electronics behind...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Self-Organization and Green Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks provides recent research on the developments of efficient cognitive network topology. The most current procedures and results are presented to demonstrate how developments in this area can reduce complications, confusion, and even...
by Jim Cox
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
The period from 1925 to 1960 was the heyday of the American Radio Soap Opera. In addition to being part of popular culture, the soap opera had important commercial aspects as well that were not only related to their production, but also to the desperate need to sell products or perish. Both sides...
Sounds of Change
A History of FM Broadcasting in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. In Sounds of Change, Christopher Sterling and Michael Keith...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This publication, ATP 6-02.72, MCRP 3-40.3A, NTTP 6-02.2, AFTTP 3-2.18, provides a single-source, consolidated reference for tactics, techniques, and procedures in the employment, configuration, and creation of radio nets consisting of voice and data tactical radios. It describes multi-Service...
Paul Harvey's America
The Life, Art, and Faith of a Man Who Transformed Radio and Inspired a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
New York Times best selling biographer Stephen Mansfield and coauthor David A. Holland present a fascinating look at America’s most popular radio host. You’ll discover how the brutal murder of his father shaped Paul Harvey’s life and career; how a high school teacher helped launch him in radio;...
Radio On
A Listener's Diary
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Sarah Vowell turned hers on and listened--closely, critically, creatively--for an entire year.
As a series of impressions and reflections regarding contemporary American...
Damas con antifaz
Mujeres en la radio 1920-1960
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 25, 2019
La fascinante historia que hay detrás del antifaz que llevan las voces femeninas que escuchó el país a través del radio revela el rostro de damas que desde diferentes profesiones fueron abriéndose paso en un medio dominado por la masculinidad y una moralidad estricta. Un verdadero homenaje a la radio y a sus mujeres.
Joan Davis
America's Queen of Film, Radio and Television Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The Emmy–nominated star of the classic 1950s sitcom I Married Joan, Joan Davis (1912–1961) was also radio’s highest paid comedienne in the 1940s—and she displayed her unique brand of knockabout comedy in more than forty films. This book provides a complete account of her career, including...
"This Is Jerusalem Calling"
State Radio in Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Modeled after the BBC, the Palestine Broadcasting Service was launched in 1936 to serve as the national radio station of Mandate Palestine, playing a pivotal role in shaping the culture of the emerging middle class in the region. Despite its significance, the PBS has become nearly forgotten by scholars...
The Complete Kay Francis Career Record
All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book is the definitive guide to the film, stage, radio and television career of Kay Francis, one of the most glamorous stars from the golden age of Hollywood. For each film, the authors provide a thorough synopsis plus cast and crew information (including biographies), opening dates, production...
Music, Sound, and Technology in America
A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War, by which time the technologies were...