Examines the external pressures and organizational problems within the Pacifica Foundation that led, in early 1999, to the police shutdown of network stations KPFA. This title calls it the worst crisis in the history of community radio. It is the story of Lewis Hill and the small band of pacifists who in 1946, set out to launch KPFA.
Examines the external pressures and organizational problems within the Pacifica Foundation that led, in early 1999, to the police shutdown of network ...
Uneasy Listening tells the story of the epic battle over five listener-supported radio stations that rocked the American Left and raised difficult questions about public broadcasting in the United States that have yet to be answered. Praise for Matthew Lasars first book on community broadcasting, Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network: "Pacifica Radio outstrips anything that has ever been produced not only about the Pacifica experience, but about American cultural radio," Lorenzo Milam, author of Sex and Broadcasting "A tremendous book, combining superb scholarship with...
Uneasy Listening tells the story of the epic battle over five listener-supported radio stations that rocked the American Left and raised diffi...
How did popular radio in past decades from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" in the 1930s through Top 40 music and Rush Limbaugh's talk radio empire shape American society? How did devices and systems like the iPhone, Pandora, and YouTube turn the radio industry upside-down? Does radio still have a future, and if so, what will we want it to look like?
Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium covers the history and evolution of Internet radio, explaining what came before, where Internet radio came from, and where it is likely headed. It also gives...
How did popular radio in past decades from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" in the 1930s through Top 40 music and Rush Limbaugh's...
