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Awards for radio
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NAB Awards for RadioThe National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) awards the Marconis to radio broadcasters in 22 categories.
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Peabody Awards
The George Foster Peabody Awards were first awarded in 1941. The awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service by radio and television networks, stations, producing organizations, cable television organizations and individuals. The awards program is administered by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Selection is made by the Peabody Board following review by special screening committees of faculty, students and staff.
Keeping up with the journal literature
A short definition for "radio"
1. The first electronic mass medium of communication, involving an audio signal broadcast wirelessly in the form of radio waves from a high-power transmitter to a low-power receiver (radio set). Radio shares many of its representational and institutional characteristics with television. See also live; radio genres.
2. A means of interpersonal communication over short distances which uses transmitter/receiver devices that use a low-power half-duplex radio signal.
Chandler, D., & Munday, R. (2020). Radio. In A Dictionary of Media and Communication. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 Oct. 2020
Introductory resource(s)
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The concise encyclopedia of American radio by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780415995337The average American listens to the radio three hours a day. In light of recent technological developments such as internet radio, some argue that the medium is facing a crisis, while others claim we are at the dawn of a new radio revolution. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio is an essential single-volume reference guide to this vital and evolving medium. It brings together the best and most important entries from the three-volume Museum of Broadcast Communications' Encyclopedia of Radio, edited by Christopher Sterling. ... -
Encyclopedia of American radio, 1920-1960 by Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. PN 1991.2 .S57 2000ISBN: 9780786429424Publication Date: 2nd ed.This revised, expanded and corrected edition offers even more coverage of the performers and programming on American radio from its inception to its golden age. -
Encyclopedia of radio by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781135456481Encyclopedia of Radio includes more than 600 entries covering major countries and regions of the world as well as specific programs and people, networks and organizations, regulation and policies, audience research, and radio's technology. This encyclopedic work will be the first broadly conceived reference source on a medium that is now nearly eighty years old, with essays that provide essential information on the subject as well as comment on the significance of the particular person, organization, or topic being examined. -
Radio's second century: past, present, and future perspectives by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780813598505As one of the first scholarly monographs to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio's Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio's past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a dominant mass medium with almost total listenership saturation despite rapid technological advancements that provide alternatives for consumers. ... -
Radio and sound studies from Oxford Bibliiographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resource“Radio studies” is a relatively recent term used to signal the explosive growth in scholarship on the medium that has developed as part of a larger interest in sound media and audio culture across the arts and humanities since the 2000s. However, scholarly studies of radio are by no means unique to the new millennium, extending back to the very earliest years of the medium. ... -
Radio studies from Oxford Bibliographies Online - Communication by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe field of radio studies has undergone something of a resurgence in recent years. More radio is taught at universities and colleges than ever before, and the past three decades have witnessed growing numbers of scholarly works devoted to radio research while more journals now publish articles on radio. The emergence of two journals devoted entirely to radio research, the Journal of Radio Studies in the United States in 1991 and the United Kingdom’s Radio Journal in 2003, is both an indicator and consequence of this renewal. ... -
Swingin' on the ether waves: a chronological history of African Americans in radio and television programming, 1925-1955 by Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. PN 1991.8 .A35 S36 2005 v. 1 - 2ISBN: 9780810840874This is the first book to fully document the historical contributions of African Americans to broadcasting in the United States from the beginning of commercial broadcasting in 1925 to the age of television in 1955. This work fills a void that has only been marginally covered by previous books on the history of American broadcasting. This work documents the impact of their unique and popular entertainment styles on network radio programming, describes how racial discrimination and prejudice limited the opportunities of African American performers to receive full financial compensation, unlike many others who gained radio and television fame and fortune by emulating them, ...
