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McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Early chapters chronicle development of broadcasting, advertising and entertainment industries, with an explanation of ratings system and its evolution. Each subsequent chapter focuses on a specific year of radio's golden age, with industry statistics, daily ratings and a chart of the year's 50 top programs. A summary lists the era's most successful programs within the five major formats"--Provided by publisher.
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English
Description
H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...