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Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s--A Biographical Dictionary
Jim Cox
Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s--A Biographical Dictionary
Jim Cox
Profiles more than 1100 'radio speakers' from the golden-age of US network radio in the years before television. It covers announcers, newscasters, sportscasters, showbiz reporters, advice consultants, emcees and breakfast chatterboxes; and includes discussion of both the famous - such as Edward R. Murrow, Louella Parsons, and Walter Winchell - and the less well-known.
360 pages, appendix, bibliography, index
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 1, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780786460861 |
Publishers | McFarland & Co Inc |
Pages | 368 |
Dimensions | 178 × 254 × 19 mm · 630 g |