Sent off when they were playing so well: Rivals copied it and listeners...

The Independent - London;  March 16, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Radio 5 finally goes off the air a week next Monday, sacrificed...bring people on to the streets. On three of these counts, Radio 5 is still the equal of any of the BBC's networks. What it...BBC 1 to be judged solely by market share in years to come. Radio 5's job was to cobble together what audience it ...

The show must go on (radio)

The Independent - London;  January 25, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Radio has come to be seen as the nursery of television, where talent...words and pictures is inherently superior, there is little radio can do to halt the one-way traffic that has given a face...All Over, Room 101 and On the Hour. Now, though, it seems, radio has begun refurbishing itself as a retirement ...

CELEBRATING THE HEYDAY OF RADIO DESIGN

The Boston Globe;  February 14, 1992 ;     700+ words ...LEXINGTON -- Radio has been a part of our lives for so long that we probably never think about a problem faced by the early radio manufacturers: What should a radio look like? Here was this marvelous invention joining the family...

Radio 2 oldies help pep up charts

The Independent - London;  February 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ...RADIO 2, the station that for three decades was associated with...singles and albums charts are showing the influence of the Radio 2 playlist. The arrival of Blondie this week at the top of...53-year-old singer Debbie Harry. It is confirmation that Radio 2 can now make hits. It also means that those in the ...

RADIO ENJOYING A BOOM DECADE OF GROWTH MAY HERALD MORE DRAMATIC...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Radio? That's the stuff of nostalgia, like people gathered around their Atwater Kents listening to ``Little Orphan Annie'' or tuning a tinny transistor radio to a Top 40 disc jockey playing the latest 45s. Who possibly would care about radio? People with serious money, that's who. The National Association ...

Radio 3 'ditching classical music for rock and chat' Listeners complain...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ...RADIO 3, the BBC's classical music station, has been accused of...committee for culture, wrote to Roger Wright, the controller of Radio 3, complaining that its presenters devoted too much airtime...Beethoven. "I'm sure they're trying to be accessible but Radio 1 and 2 are accessible. Radio 3 is there ...

Radio.

Video Store;  January 11, 2004 ;     501 words ...Radio Street 1/27 Columbia TriStar, Drama, B.O. $51.4 million...Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard, Debra Winger. Radio is an inspirational drama about self-discovery and tolerance...in his best role since Jerry Maguire), better known as Radio for his collection of radios and love of music, but ...

ARTHURIAN LEGENDS VISIT LIBRARY.(Local)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  June 18, 1998 ;     60 words ...ARAPAHOE COUNTY -- ``The Many Realms of King Arthur,'' a traveling exhibit tracing the Arthurian legends through the centuries, can be viewed through Aug. 2 at the Koelbel Public Library, 5955 S. Holly St. The exhibition, one of only...

Radio One Says Joyner Deal Aids Urban Market Strategy

The Washington Post;  November 23, 2004 ;     692 words ...Radio One Inc. chief executive Alfred C. Liggins III said yesterday his $56 million acquisition of popular radio personality Tom Joyner's morning show will help stave off the threat of Internet and satellite radio in the urban radio market. "As we start to look to grow our...

Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture

The Journal of American Culture;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture Bruce Lenthall. Chicago: University of...individuals respond with strategies to minimize or overcome those constraints is at the core of Bruce Lenthall's Radio's America (only 1930s' radio in the United States is considered). The ...

The Burning Question; Will Home-Downloaded CDs Be the Ruin of Radio?

The Washington Post;  April 3, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Radio is doing fine, but the record industry might be in big trouble. That is, according to a dozen...Mike Freedman's Journalism 190 class at George Washington University. Freedman is a veteran radio newsman who most recently was general manager of CBS Radio News in New York. He came to Washington and ...

From Humphrys to Peel: who's the best radio broadcaster? ; HOME

The Independent - London;  March 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Radio performers living and dead will be entered next month in an event to find "the broadcasters' broadcaster" as a way of marking 25 years of the Sony radio awards. One hundred prominent people in British radio are being asked to vote, from a shortlist of 25 names, for who they think provided, or ...

Radio 1 audience further hit by frequency switch

The Independent - London;  October 25, 1994 ;     469 words ...Radio 1's surrender of its medium-wave frequency in July has cost the station about a million listeners and allowed commercial radio to edge ahead of the BBC in overall share of listening for...21-year history. According to figures released by Rajar (Radio Audience Joint Research) yesterday, Radio ...

Radio One to Sell Its L.A. Station; $137.5 Million Deal Would Take Md....

The Washington Post;  March 25, 2008 ;     542 words ...Radio One yesterday announced that it is selling its Los Angeles station to Bonneville International for about $137.5 million, a decision that means the Lanham urban radio giant will no longer have a presence in the nation's largest radio market by revenue. Radio One's chief executive and president, ...

An ear for the CBS eye; radio is entering a new golden age - at least of...

Newsweek;  December 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Radio is entering a new golden age at--least of revenues I LOVE...flow going up. This is a standard line for the reclusive radio mogul, and he relishes how hardnosed it sounds. Karmazin likes to play a business-suited version of a radio shock jock, and indeed Howard Stern and Don Imus work for...