Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio write by Ed Salamon. This book was released on 2010. Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pittsburgh is the birthplace of radio, the location of many of radio's first and most influential stations and broadcast personalities, and a key market for the development of new formats. Pittsburghers' reaction to the music they heard on the radio helped to break records and create stars. Radio provided an unprecedented audience for live performances by local artists. After the big band era, radio gave voice to pop, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues. Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio celebrates the city's radio history, deejays, contests, concerts, public service, and promotions from radio's beginnings in the 1920s through the late 1970s, when listening on FM exceeded that on AM for the first time.
Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll
Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll write by Ed Salamon. This book was released on 2015-02-24. Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the numerous rock and roll artists and groups that came out of Pittsburgh, PA in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television
The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television write by Frederick V. Romano. This book was released on 2017-07-25. The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Radio and television broadcasting were as important to the growth and popularity of boxing as it was to the reshaping of our very culture. In The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television, Frederick V. Romano explores the many roles that each medium played in both the development and the depiction of the sport. Principal among the topics covered are the ever-changing role of technology during the four-decade-plus period, how it impacted the manner in which the sport was presented to its public audience, the exponential growth of those audiences, and the influence radio and television had on the financial aspects of the sport, including the selective use of radio and television and the financial boom that the mediums created. The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television also assays radio and boxing during World War II, the role of organized crime, and the monopolistic practices during the television era. Romano also presents a detailed account of announcers such as Don Dunphy and Ted Husing who brought the action to the listeners and viewers, the many appearances that boxers including Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, and Rocky Marciano made on radio and television when they were not in the ring, and the mediums’ portrayal of the sport in an array of programming from drama to comedy. This is a must-have for all serious boxing fans.
A Golden Age
A Golden Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Golden Age write by Martha Wickham. This book was released on 1996. A Golden Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Emma sees a radio like her grandmother's at the Information Age Exhibit at the National Museum of American History, Emma imagines that she is a young girl in 1945. Emma soon realizes how much radio brought to people's lives only fifty years ago. The companion audiocassette contains classic radio segments of Jack Benny, Lux Family Theater, The Shadows, and more.
Broadcasting the Local News
Broadcasting the Local News - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Broadcasting the Local News write by Lynn Boyd Hinds. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Broadcasting the Local News available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Television came to Pittsburgh in 1949 when WDTV (the forerunner of KDKA-TV) went on the air. Whereas many television stations in the United States began reading news on the air only to comply with FCC requirements, WDTV treated news seriously from day one with its first regular program, a local news show called "Pitt Parade." Today KDKA is still highly regarded among journalists for its news programming. Although television news may seem familiar to us, it was anything but familiar to the men and women of early television. Hinds shows how they borrowed liberally from newspapers, radio, motion picture newsreels, theater, and even magazines to create, by trial and error, suitable ways to present the news. Rather than instantly replacing radio, television news moved slowly from the "rip and read" radio-style format, which simply duplicated what came over the wire services and was in the newspapers, to the conventions of local newscasts we take for granted today--live remotes, lead and feature stories, sports and weather, all brought together by an in-studio anchor. Pittsburghers will recognize many familiar names in Hinds's account--Bill Burns, Paul Long, Florence Sando, Eleanor Schano, and others--veterans of Pittsburgh broadcasting whom Hinds has interviewed for this book. The story they tell is the story of dozens of other stations across the country. In the process, they tell us much about the early history of television in America. Lynn Boyd Hinds spent over twenty years in Pittsburgh television and radio before moving to Penn State University where he was an affiliate producer for WPSX-TV, the public broadcasting station in Central Pennsylvania. There he created and hosted the popular quiz show, "The Pennsylvania Game." Today he is Associate Professor of Broadcast News in the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University.
