Radio category: 327 books
Elvis, Hank, and Me
Making Musical History On The Louisiana Hayride
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In 1948, Horace "Hoss" Logan, a young radio producer in Shreveport, Louisiana, started booking talent for a new weekly music show called the Louisiana Hayride. Performed for a live audience and broadcast nationally over the CBS Radio network, the show became known as the "Cradle of...
by Lee U. Dorman
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Built by a 16-year-old high school student named Jack DeWitt, the first radio station in Nashville went on the air in 1922. Three years later, DeWitt helped start WSM, arguably one of the nation�s greatest radio stations, and in 1950, he and WSM put Nashville�s first television station on the air....
The Ticket
Full Disclosure: The Completely True Story of the Marconi-winning Little Ticket, A.k.a., the Station That Got Your Mom to Say 'Stay Hard'
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Beyond the inside jokes, the fake bits and the banter, The Ticket: Full Disclosure gives you the complete low-down on how The Ticket got started. From the boys at the back of the bus to one of the most imitated sports talk radio stations on the air today, get the full story as told by the guys you...
The Shipping Forecast
A Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The rhythmic lullaby of ‘North Utsire, South Utsire’ has been lulling the nation’s insomniacs to sleep for over 90 years. It has inspired songs, poetry and imaginations across the globe – as well as providing a very real service for the nation’s seafarers who might fall prey to storms and...
Broadcasting the Civil War in El Salvador
A Memoir of Guerrilla Radio
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), the guerrilla organization that challenged the government. The broadcast provided a vital link between combatants in the mountains and the outside world,...
Broadcast Hysteria
Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison...
Waves Of Hope
The Impact of Galcom Radio Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
This is the compelling story of how God took a country boy, gave him a worldwide vision and then used him to impact the world through radio. From steamy jungles to clattering cities, from wind swept deserts to frozen tundra GALCOM solar-powered, fix-tuned radios and the accompanying radio stations are...
The RF in RFID
UHF RFID in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This book explains how UHF tags and readers communicate wirelessly. It gives an understanding of what limits the read range of a tag, how to increase it (and why that might result in breaking the law), and the practical things that need to be addressed when designing and implementing RFID technology....
by H. Ward Silver
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Discover a fun new hobby with helpful possibilities
Get directions, talk to folks overseas, or find out whether the fish are biting
Want to check out the morning news in London, help out in emergencies, or tune in to the big race? Two-way radios open up a world of possibilities - literally....
Sacramento on the Air
How the McClatchy Family Revolutionized West Coast Broadcasting
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
In 1921, a chance encounter with a radio receiver sent Sacramento Bee newspaperman Carlos McClatchy on a determined path to break into broadcasting. Ushered by the enterprising McClatchy family, the Bee became the first Pacific Coast newspaper to enter the radio business. For decades, broadcasting...
by Ed Hooper
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
WNOX was the eighth radio station to sign on the air in North America and the first in Tennessee. No station has left a bigger footprint on American popular music or the radio industry as WNOX. Its AM signal could be heard as far south as Daytona Beach and as far north as New York City in the day of...
Music in Range
The Culture of Canadian Campus Radio
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Chapter 6 Alternative Music Culture and Imagined-Community Radio
Brian Fauteux
Presents concluding arguments and questions about campus radio culture, including issues of exclusion and inclusion and the future of the sector. Reflects on the current role of campus stations in relation to Canadian media and culture and argues for the need to sustain this sector.
Broadcasting Diversity
Migrant Representation in Irish Radio
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Broadcasting Diversity explores modes of migrant representation and participation in Irish radio, focusing on the national public broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann and Dublin community stations and examining the opportunities provided for voicing migrant experience in transcultural program production....
by Brian Schell
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Dark Fantasy was an American radio supernatural thriller anthology series. It had a short run of 31 episodes, debuting on November 14, 1941, and ending on June 19, 1942. Its writer was Scott Bishop, and it originated from station WKY in Oklahoma City and was heard Friday nights on NBC stations. The...