Texas Signs on: The Early Days of Radio and Television: 75 (CENTENNIAL SERIES OF THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS, TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY) - Hardcover

Schroeder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890968136 ISBN 13: 9780890968130

Verlag: Texas A & M University Press, 2006

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For some eighty years the airwaves of Texas have buzzed. Richard Schroeder traces the first fifty years of the development of broadcasting in the state from its inception through the formation of commercial stations, to the regulation of the airwaves by the federal government beginning in 1928, and beyond. He describes programming, financing, network development, and anti-regulation protest broadcasts. Throughout, the story is spiced with anecdotes and the colorful personalities that have filled the state's airwaves (and business boardrooms) for seven decades: Dizzy Dean, Cactus Pryor, Amon Carter, Harold Hough's inception of ringing a cowbell on WBAP, sportscaster Bud Sherman, Gordon McLendon, Bob Wills, the Light Crust Doughboys, pirate radio stations, and many others. Schroeder even explains the absence of channel 1 from the old rotary VHF dials. In his engaging narrative, Schroeder offers an insight into the challenges both radio and television faced along the way and how they were overcome.

Biografía del autor:

Richard Schroeder is an independent historian with a doctorate in education from Texas A&M University at Commerce. He has spent three years conducting the oral history research for this book. He lives in Greenville, Texas.

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• Verlag: Texas A & M University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0890968136
• ISBN 13: 9780890968130
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288