Other library resource(s)
The Kumars at no. 42 by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #8202ISBN: 9781419816147Sanjeev Kumar is an aspiring chat-show host. His parents have built him a TV studio in back of their house and he has celebrity guests over to chat, but it falls apart when his family cut in on the action.
NewsRadio. The complete first and second seasons by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #3392ISBN: 9781404939394The complete first two seasons of the comedy show about a group of oddballs working at an AM news radio station.
Talk radio by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #761ISBN: 9780783249261A Dallas talk radio host subjects his ex-wife and co-workers to a darkly comic marathon bout of compulsive risk-taking with his unstable radio audience.
In the Library's collection
Books on the Radio broadcasting industry are in the call number range HE 8690 through HE 8699 on Berry Level 3.
Books about what is actually broadcast, its history and criticism are shelved in PN 1991 through PN 1991.9 on Baker Level 4.
Books on the more technical aspects of radio transmissions and broadcasting are shelved in TK 6540 through TK 6571.5 on Berry Level 4.
The following subject headings below will help you search. Note: the subject heading "radio broadcasting" applies to the industry while the subject heading "radio programs" refers to what is actually broadcast on the air.
- radio journalismThis subject heading is used rather than "radio news."
Selected book titles
Beer, babes, and balls: masculinity and sports talk radio by Call Number: Baker-Berry GV 742.3 .N95 2007ISBN: 9780791472385Looks at contemporary sports talk radio and its relations to both traditional and newer forms of masculinity.
Rushed to judgment: talk radio, persuasion, and American political behavior by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1991.8 .T35 B37 2002ISBN: 9780231118071Convenient, entertaining, and provocative, talk radio today is unapologetically ideological. Focusing on Rush Limbaugh--the medium's most influential talk show--Rushed to Judgment systematically examines the politics of persuasion at play on our nation's radio airwaves and asks a series of important questions. Does listening to talk radio change the way people think about politics, or are listeners' attitudes a function of the self-selecting nature of the audience? ...Sounds in the dark: all-night radio in American life by
Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1991 .U6 K45 2001ISBN: 9780813829814Sounds in the Dark chronicles the history and development of nighttime radio in the United States from its inception in the 1920s through to its present all-night format. Michael Keith examines and analyzes the attraction and popularization of nighttime radio in relationship to social, cultural, and industrial influences. ...
Talk fiction: literature and the talk explosion by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 3503 .K33 2001ISBN: 9780803278011Everywhere you turn today, someone (or something) is talking to you--the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone, and you're not mistaken. In this innovative, multidisciplinary work, Irene Kacandes reads contemporary fiction as a form of conversation and as part of the larger conversation that is modern culture. ...
Examples of talk radio
We interrupt this broadcast: the events that stopped our lives-- : from the Hindenburg explosion to the attacks of September 11 by Call Number: Baker-Berry Tower Room PN 4784 .T4 G36 2002 textISBN: 9781570719745Photographs and descriptive text document such world changing events as Pearl Harbor, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 2000 presidential election, and the September 11 terrorist attacks.- Radio scripts, 1936-1955Call Number: Rauner Manuscript MS 831Texts of radio plays and dramatic readings (1936-1938) as well as news broadcasts (1949-1955) by noted journalists, including Stephen Vincent Benét, Norman Lewis Corwin, Cedric Foster, Fulton Lewis, Edward R. Murrow, and William N. Robson.
Internet resource(s)
You can do internet searches for "talk radio" or "news radio" and see what you get.
- National Public Radio (NPR)
NPR is an independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public. Every day, NPR connects with millions of Americans on the air, online, and in person to explore the news, ideas, and what it means to be human. ... - Talk radio from Wikipedia
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with several different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live conversations between the host and listeners who "call in" (usually via telephone) to the show. ...
