radio talk shows

The march to the Trump presidency began in 1988, when Rush Limbaugh went national. Brian Rosenwald charts the transformation of AM radio entertainers into political kingmakers. By giving voice to the conservative base, they reshaped the Republican Party and fostered demand for a president who sounded as combative and hyperbolic as a talk show host.--.

Public radio show producer Shay Goldstein constantly clashes with her new colleague, Dominic Yun, who thinks he knows everything about public radio. To help the station's ratings, Shay suggests a new show called "The Ex Talk" to give relationship advice. Since Shay and Dominic already despise each other, they are chosen as co-hosts. As they pretend to be each other's ex, the ratings grow and so does the deception. Then Shay and Dominic start to fall for one another, and their relationship threatens their reputations and careers.

When high school senior Gabby learns that men are drugging girls and forcing them into prostitution, she fights back using the popular radio show she hosts and captures the attention of X, a mysterious gang member determined to get pimps off the streets of Miami, who, in turn, captures her heart.

A beautiful twenty-five-year-old ex-escort is the in-studio guest on a radio call-in show. But when a caller warns of a plot to kill prostitutes across the country, the race to find the killer begins.

"Ghosts Know is a fascinating exploration of the twists and turns of reality-media personalities, the line between the dead and the living...and how the truth can be twisted to serve all manner of reality. Graham Wilde is a contentious, bombastic host of the talk radio program Wilde Card. His job, as he sees it, is to stir the pot, and he is quite good at it, provoking many a heated call with his eccentric and often irrational audience. He invites Frank Jasper, a purported psychic, to come on the program. He firmly believes that the man is a charlatan, albeit a talented one. When Jasper appears on his show, Wilde draws upon personal knowledge about the man to embarrass him on air, using patter similar to that which Jasper utilizes in his act. Wilde's attack on Jasper earns him the enmity of his guest and some of the members of his audience. He next encounters Jasper when the psychic is hired by the family of a missing adolescent girl to help them find her. Wilde is stunned and then horrified when Jasper seems to suggest that he might be behind the girl's disappearance. Thus begins a nightmarish journey as circumstantial evidence against Wilde begins to mount, alienating his listeners, the radio station, and eventually, his lover. As Wilde descends into a pit of despair, reality and fantasy begin to blur in a kaleidoscope of terror..."--.

"Ryan James' promising baseball career was derailed before it even got started--when a hit-and-run driver killed his wife, Chelsea, leaving Ryan alone to care for their beautiful little girl. Now, three years later, he's a popular sports radio host in Boston, still haunted by a tragic crime that was never solved. Then, on the anniversary of Chelsea's death, Ryan receives a chilling message from an anonymous tipster: 'I know who did it.' The shocking revelation that it may have come from Chelsea's autistic younger brother sets Ryan on a twisted path toward a shattering truth that threatens Ryan, his daughter, and everyone around them."--back cover.

Radio talk show host Shauna Bogart is used to dealing with the controversial, the contentious, the cranky, and the crazed as the host of a popular radio show, but nothing prepares her for the day a fellow DJ turns up with a bullet in his head, and she soon finds herself trying to solve the murder before she becomes a target herself.

Joaquin, the host of Ghost Radio, a call-in show based in Mexico, finds himself slowly being drawn into the horror stories he hears from his listeners and soon loses control over his own reality.

Argues that plans to once again enforce the Federal Communications Commission's Fairness Doctrine is an ill-disguised attempt by Democrats to silence conservative talk radio, and contends that the move is an attack on free speech.

Examines the popularity and influence of television and radio talk shows with American society and includes discussion of some of the more noted personalities.