Subjects covered in the volume include the digital revolution, curriculum
revisions, online
learning,
gender considerations, learning beyond the classroom, and international
models of
broadcasting curricula.
At the same time that emphasis is placed on the challenges posed by
new technologies,
careful attention is given to the importance of educators' continuing to
emphasize
the traditional academic skills of writing, interpersonal communication,
and analysis.
In this
way, editors Jerry Donnelly and Joseph R. Blaney offer offers a unique roadmap
to educators
charged with shaping broadcasting programs in light of new technology.
"AM station descent," pp. 131-32, 133-34; "FM station
ascent," pp. 136-37; "Radio future," p. 192
In Michael C. Keith (2000).
Talking Radio: An
Oral History of Radio in the Television Age.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Publishing.
ISBN: 0-7656-0398-5 $29.95
240 pp. Bibliography, index.
Description: Incorporating a lively oral history approach, this
fascinating history of
radio covers the impact of the arrival of television, the rise of transistor
radios, the
popularity of rock 'n' roll, FM stereo stations, underground radio of
the Sixties, the
relaxing of regulation in the Reagan era, talk radio, public radio, and
how technology
and the internet will affect its future. Keith interweaves his informative
narrative with
reminiscences of some of the primary participants in one of the most dynamic
and
influential communication mediums of the the last half of this century.
Among those interviewed are such well known personalities as Walter Cronkite,
Dick
Clark, Ray Bradbury, Steve Allen, Art Linkletter, Larry Gelbart, Paul
Harvey, Howard
K. Smith, Richard C. Hottelet, Casey Kasem, Ed McMahon, Daniel Schorr,
Susan
Stamberg, Bruce Morrow, and Studs Terkel, as well as more than fifty other
individuals who were or continue to be actively involved in radio.
Academic contributions are made by Frank Chorba, W.A. Kelly Huff, Bruce
Mims,
Chris Sterling, and others.
Comment(s): "It is important to have records such as this
one because of the
uniqueness of the enterprise known as radio. It is well that we hear from
those who
played a special role in the making of its history. Together, the first-person
commentaries add up to a valid written account of an extraordinary story."
-- Walter
Cronkite
Review(s): "Keith lets us "listen in" on more than one hundred
broadcasting executives
and personalities as they trace radio's history from its sharp decline
in the early fifties to
the influential and profitable position it enjoys today. ... Merits a
place on the
bookshelves of anyone who is or has been a part of the broadcast industry,
and should
also be of almost equal interest to the members of its audience." -- Foreword
Selected Contents:
I. The War Ends and the Picture Begins
1. The Quiet After and Before: Radio's Victory and Short Peace
2. Assault of the Infant: Television Takes Over the Livingroom
3. Together . . . but Separate: When the Two Worked as One
4. The Word Is the Thing: The Substance of Sound
5. In Mourning and Evening: The ``Way It Was'' Radio
6. Reinventing Itself: A Winning Formula Is Found
II. The Second Coming of Radio
7. Home of the Hits: Going to the Top 40
8. Airy Personas: New Legends of the Ol' Airwaves
9. At the Top of the Hour: And Now the News
10. Talking Radio: Words Without Music
11. Good Air: As a Public Trustee
12. Bad Air: Those Tuneout Factors
III. The Times and Band Are a Changin'
13. People's Radio: A Medium for Everyone
14. Under Suspicion: Behind Every Set
15. Equality for Some: A White Man's Medium
16. Descent from Dominance: AM's Fall from Grace
17. Ascent of Fidelity: FM's Rise to Power
18. Shock Waves: Polluting the Air
IV. Into the New Millennium
19. Business by the Book: Impressions Count
20. Going Public: Noncommercial Stations
21. Turn of the Screw: Tubes and Wires in a Box
22. Hoarding the Air: Stations in the Fold
23. In the Air Ahead: The Future of Radio
24. "Seems Radio Is Here to Stay," by Norman Corwin: A Play for Broadcast