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The Wendy Williams Experienceby Wendy Williams
Penguin Group Inc. 2005; US$ 12.99In the dishiest book of the year, the top-rated and controversial radio host delivers the good, the bad, and the ugly on the industry's biggest stars. But we'll let her speak for herself: Whitney Houston: "We have watched her go from our princess...to what looks like one step above a crackhead." Lil' Kim: "[She] started out as a black girl from the hood and now she's posing as a white girl from Hollywood." Mariah Carey: "Mariah will deny all day that she has ever had any plastic surgery...Check the before-and-after photos." Star Jones and Al Reynolds: "I give it three years." more...
Interviewing for Radioby Jim Beaman
Routledge 2000; US$ 30.95Interviewing for Radio critically analyses previously broadcast interviews and together with advice from radio professionals explains the preparation, organisation and communication required to produce a successful radio broadcast. more...
Inside Broadcastingby Freelance producer and journalist J Newby
Routledge 1997; US$ 37.95A comprehensive introduction to a highly rewarding yet competitive industry. The skills, experience and qualifications that are required for entry into the profession are explained together with how each job fits into the industry as a whole. more...
Radio Dramaby Tim Crook
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drama, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory. more...
International Radio Journalismby Tim Crook
Routledge 1997; US$ 45.95International Radio Journalism is both a theoretical textbook and a practical guide for students of radio journalism, reporters, editors and producers. The book explores the way radio has covered the most important stories this century. more...
Paying for Broadcastingby Tim Congdon; Andrew Graham; Gavyn Davies; Brian Sturgess; William B. Shew
Routledge 1992; US$ 80.00With British broadcasting standing on the threshold of immense change, this handbook leads a wide-ranging discussion of funding options open to broadcasters. more...
Researching for Television and Radioby Adele Emm
Routledge 2001; US$ 30.95Researching for Television and Radio is an essential guide to the skills necessary for working as a researcher in the television and radio industries. more...
FMby Richard Neer
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 15.99"It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty thousand magical watts of crystal clear power . . . before the days of trashy, hedonistic dumbspeak and disposable three-minute ditties . . . in the days where rock lived at many addresses in many cities." –from FM As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New York–one of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio by rejecting strict formatting and letting disc jockeys play whatever they... more...
Radio Goes to Warby Gerd Horten
University of California Press 2002; US$ 22.00Radio Goes to War is the first comprehensive and in-depth look at the role of domestic radio in the United States during the Second World War. As this study convincingly demonstrates, radio broadcasting played a crucial role both in government propaganda and within the context of the broader cultural and political transformations of wartime America. Gerd Horten's absorbing narrative argues that no medium merged entertainment, propaganda, and advertising more effectively than radio. As a result, America's wartime radio propaganda emphasized an increasingly corporate and privatized vision of America's future, with important repercussions for the war years and the postwar era. Examining radio news programs, government propaganda shows, advertising,... more...