Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Radio - General

Norman Corwin is regarded as the most acclaimed creative artist of radio s Golden Age (mid 1930s to late 1940s).Corwin worked as a producer for CBS at a time when radio was the centerpiece of American family life.His programs brought high moments to the medium during a period when exceptional creativity and world crisis shaped its character and conviction.Bannerman s book is more than biography: it is also social history the story of network radio, its great achievements and ultimate decline.Many of Corwin s programs are considered radio classics.During World War II his programs energized...

Broadcast News Producing is one of the first comprehensive texts in its field. While until now most broadcast journalism textbooks have been geared toward students who want careers on-camera, Broadcast News Producing goes behind the camera to teach students the hows and whys of putting together compelling news programs for television, radio, and the Internet. This text lays the groundwork for good producing, giving the reader an insider's perspective on newsroom structure and the producer's role. It takes students step-by-step through the producing process, providing a guide to putting...

The star of Vic & Sade recounts those daring World War II days when pilots flew for their lives and kicked the hell outa the enemy

Bill Idelson was a TV writer on Fish, Happy Days, The Odd Couple, The Andy Griffith Show, Get Smart, and countless others.

Their voices explode over the airwaves -- with names like Mike and the Mad Dog, the Stinkin' Genius, Hacksaw, and JT the Brick. They broadcast in drive time and downtime, from rush hour to the dead of night. And yet, millions of fans tune in around the clock to hear their favorite larger-than-life radio personalities rant, rave, critique, predict, and mix it up with callers -- the dedicated fans of sports talk radio.

Never before has this cloistered world opened its doors to a no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes, full-access look...

Over the last sixty years or so academic interest in the mass media has burgeoned. It is not, perhaps, surprising that this interest at first focused principally on the visual media of film and television, where it has remained intensive. Nevertheless, serious thinking about radio soon followed. Despite its apparent limitations, were there some advantages that radio enjoyed over the visual media? In what ways, for instance, could it mediate genres like drama and sport, which traditionally depended for their effectiveness on spectacle? Scholars have also examined radio s use of words in...