This work examines what could be called the final decade of AM network radio and the many factors that contributed to its decline. The first chapter is an overview of AM radio in the 1950s. The second chapter covers 1950 through 1953, when radio was still a popular medium but faced a need to make changes in its programing. Chapter three covers 1954 through 1956, three years in which radio experienced losses of its primary audience and some of its most popular shows. Chapter four, 1957 through 1960, chronicles the end of AM radio in homes, the cancellation of almost all remaining programs,...
This work examines what could be called the final decade of AM network radio and the many factors that contributed to its decline. The first chapter i...
This reference work contains exhaustive histories of 31 of network radio's most durable soap operas on the air between 1930 and 1960. The soap operas covered are Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories, Backstage Wife, Big Sister, The Brighter Day, David Harum, Front Page Farrell, The Guiding Light, Hilltop House, Just Plain Bill, Life Can Be Beautiful, The Light of the World, Lora Lawton, Lorenzo Jones, Ma Perkins, One Man's Family, Our Gal Sunday, Pepper Young's Family, Perry Mason, Portia Faces Life, The Right to Happiness, Road of Life, The Romance of Helen Trent, Rosemary, The Second Mrs. Burton,...
This reference work contains exhaustive histories of 31 of network radio's most durable soap operas on the air between 1930 and 1960. The soap operas ...
Contains the histories of 17 radio audience participation shows on the air during the 1940s and 1950s. This title provides biographical sketches for 177 figures who were connected to radio audience participation shows. It also includes: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Art Linkletter's House Party, Break the Bank, and The Breakfast Club.
Contains the histories of 17 radio audience participation shows on the air during the 1940s and 1950s. This title provides biographical sketches for 1...
'Mr Keen, Tracer of the Lost Persons' sought missing and murdered individuals longer than any other fictional detective ever heard or seen on the air. This text presents a portrait of both the beloved character and the venerable dramatic series.
'Mr Keen, Tracer of the Lost Persons' sought missing and murdered individuals longer than any other fictional detective ever heard or seen on the air....
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 of this story are traced in this comprehensive compendium. The dictionary section, made up of more than 500 cross-referenced entries, provides brief vignettes of the more popular and also less well-known "soaps," among them Back Stage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Pepper Young's Family and The Guiding Light....
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 importa...
Long before the invention of talk radio, music was the heart and soul of radio programming--whether standing alone, filling in the time between features, or identifying to widespread audiences the shows coming on and signing off the air. Jim Cox's Music Radio encompasses the entire range of musical programming from the early 1920s to the early 1960s. Jazz, country, classical, gospel, pop, big band, western, and semi-classical forms are covered, as are the vocalists, instrumentalists and disc jockeys who made them available to listeners. Virtually all the major series and artists are explored...
Long before the invention of talk radio, music was the heart and soul of radio programming--whether standing alone, filling in the time between featur...
This text presents profiles of more than 1100 'radio speakers' are famous names like George Ansbro, Red Barber, H.V. Kaltenborn, Dorothy Kilgallen, Edward R. Murrow, Louella Parsons, Walter Winchell and more.
This text presents profiles of more than 1100 'radio speakers' are famous names like George Ansbro, Red Barber, H.V. Kaltenborn, Dorothy Kilgallen, Ed...
How was it that America would fund its nascent national radio services? Government control and a subscription-like model were both considered! But soon an advertising system emerged, leading radio into its golden age from the 1920s to the early 1960s.
How was it that America would fund its nascent national radio services? Government control and a subscription-like model were both considered! But soo...
LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com. To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. This book is a handy, quick reference guide for those already familiar with basic economics, and a brief, compelling primer for everyone else. Jim Cox introduces topics ranging from entrepreneurship, money, and inflation to the consequences of price controls (which are bad) to price gouging (which is good). Along the way, he defends the crucial role of advertising, speculators, and heroic insider traders. The book combines straightforward, common sense analysis with...
LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com. To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. This book is a handy, qui...
