radio broadcasting

Frank and Joe investigate the electrocution of an obnoxious radio personality, and the main suspects are a gang of skinhead thugs known as the Bootstompers.

Describes more than seventy careers in radio, including disc jockey, news writer, sports director, sales manager, bookkeeper, publicist, engineer, and others; and provides information on salaries, special requirements, advancement outlook, schools, and related topics.

In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, an African American family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" broadcast.

In 1938, fourteen-year-old Cece, an aspiring radio actress, encounters lies, secrets, and hoaxes both at home and in the studio where she is transcribing the script for Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds" broadcast.

Traces the process by which a radio show is put together, discussing the role of the different people involved and the skills they need to do their jobs, and looking at how radio stations are financed, how programs are planned, and what happens while a show is being broadcast.

Joe's part-time job as a disc jockey brings him into a fight for survival against a pirate broadcaster. The Hardys trace the illegal operation to a ship anchored offshore.

Explores the history of radio broadcasting and how it has changed since the invention of the television, discussing the top forty concept, notable disc jockeys, famous singers and musicians, different types of programs, and other related topics.

Text and accompanying photographs present the history of radio's effects on American society in the 1930s and 1940s.

Frannie Miller, who cannot wait to grow up and work in an office with a swivel chair and her own assistant, causes havoc when she tries to help out while on a school field trip to the local radio station.