Radio category: 327 books
by Max Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Now fans need no longer wait for the CBC to re-run recordings of Max Ferguson's notorious radio shows (assuming that the tapes have not all been destroyed by court order). A full dose of his lunacy, depravity, and flagrant disregard for CBC management can now be enjoyed at any hour of the day or night...
The Voice of Newfoundland
A Social History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland,1939-1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2008
Similar to the CBC and BBC, the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland was a public broadcaster that was at the centre of a cultural and political change from 1939 to 1949, during which Newfoundland faced wartime challenges and engaged in a constitutional debate about whether to become integrated...
The Memory of Sound
Preserving the Sonic Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. Street explores our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the continuity of memory. In so doing, he analyzes how the...
Ainâ??t That a Knee-Slapper
Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks. Lum and Abner and Ma and Pa Kettle might not have toured happily under the "Redneck" marquee, but they were its precursors. In Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural...
Today Programme Puzzle Book
The puzzle book of 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
***The best intelligent puzzle book on the market***
Fiendish fun! - The Times
Can YOU solve the Puzzle for Today?
Tackle the conundrums that have been frustrating and confounding the nation, with the first official book from Radio 4's Today programme.
Put your deciphering skills and...
Human Rights and African Airwaves
Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi’s public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and...
by Phillip J. Boucher
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The Almost Complete Guide to Yaesu's VX-6R is a reference work that helps readers like you program and use your VX-6R handheld Amateur radio to get the most fun and productivity from your unit. This book expands and explains the material in the user's manual in an easier to understand format....
Radio-Frequency Digital-to-Analog Converters
Implementation in Nanoscale CMOS
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
With the proliferation of wireless networks, there is a need for more compact, low-cost, power efficient transmitters that are capable of supporting the various communication standards, including Bluetooth, WLAN, GSM/EDGE, WCDMA and 4G of 3GPP cellular. This book describes a novel idea of RF digital-to-analog...
The Original Amos 'n' Andy
Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928-1943 Radio Serial
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
This critical reexamination of Amos ’n’ Andy, the pioneering creation of Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden, presents an unapologetic but balanced view lacking in most treatments. It relies upon an untapped resource—thousands of pages of scripts from the show’s nearly forgotten earliest version,...
Ain't That a Knee-Slapper
Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks. Lum and Abner and Ma and Pa Kettle might not have toured happily under the "Redneck" marquee, but they were its precursors.
In Ain't That a Knee-Slapper:...
by Clive W. Humphris
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
An enhanced eBook published in full colour. Now including extensive interactive content enabling exploration by inserting any values that would occur in a real situation whereby the graphics are redrawn to reflect those changes.
Calculations can be also tested against any standard subject textbook...
Isles of Noise
Sonic Media in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was "wired" earlier and more widely than many other parts of the Americas. Haiti, Cuba, and Jamaica acquired radio and broadcasting in the early stages of the global expansion...
The Early Shortwave Stations
A Broadcasting History Through 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
In July 1923, less than three years after Westinghouse station KDKA signed on, company engineer Frank Conrad began regular simulcasting of its programs on a frequency in the newly-discovered shortwave range. It was an important event in a technological revolution that would make dependable worldwide...
by John C. Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
"Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" graced the airways of America from 1949 until the end of the "Golden Age of Radio" in 1962. Six Actors portrayed Johnny Dollar, supported by the best radio actors available.
Volume I contains a character profile of "America's fabulous insurance...