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McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"Early chapters chronicle development of broadcasting, advertising and entertainment industries, with an explanation of ratings system and its evolution. Each subsequent chapter focuses on a specific year of radio's golden age, with industry statistics, daily ratings and a chart of the year's 50 top programs. A summary lists the era's most successful programs within the five major formats"--Provided by publisher.
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Jones Media Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
"Ray Odom was the voice and face of sports and country music in Arizona for almost 30 years! He put Arizona's first all-country music radio stations on the air in the 1950s and produced weekly concerts at Madison Square Garden and the Riverside Ballroom featuring Grand Ole Opry stars like Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jim Reeves, and Hank Snow. Newcomers like Duane Eddy, Marty Robbins and Waylon Jennings took their first steps toward stardom opening...
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H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
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A beautiful hardcover edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. The full-color jacket features art by three time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Wiesner, and interior black-and-white illustrations by Pauline Baynes, the original illustrator of Narnia. Four adventurous siblings?Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie?step through a wardrobe door and into the...
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Here are the best stories about our avian friends from the public radio show BirdNote, each brief essay illuminating the life, habits, or songs of a particular bird. Why do geese fly in a V-formation? Why are worms so good for you--if you're a robin? Which bird calls, "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?" From wrens that nest in cactuses to gulls that have a strange red dot on their bills--these digestible and fascinating bird stories are a...
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New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
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