Talking Radio

Front Cover
M.E. Sharpe
 

Contents

Radios Victory and Short Peace 30
3
Television Takes Over the Living Room
10
When the Two Worked as One
17
The Substance of Sound
23
The Way It Was Radio
32
A Winning Formula Is Found
38
Going to the Top 40
55
New Legends of the Ol Airwaves
64
A White Mans Medium
115
AMs Fall from Grace
129
FMs Rise to Power
135
Polluting the Air
144
Into the New Millennium
151
Impressions Count
153
Noncommercial Radio
161
Tubes and Wires in a Box
170

And Now the News
70
Words Without Music
77
As a Public Trustee
87
Those Tuneout Factors
94
The Times and Bands Are AChangin
101
A Medium for Everyone
103
Behind Every Set
109
Stations in the Fold
178
The Future of Radio
186
A Play for Broadcast
195
Further Reading
209
Index
211
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