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Passport to World Band Radio, 2008 Edition (Passport to World Band Radio)
by Lawrence Magne
from International Broadcasting Services
As events unfold, those wanting answers go beyond everyday sources to seek out news, opinion and perspectives direct and unfiltered. Only world band radio delivers this no matter what, and quick-access Passport to World Band Radio is the #1 seller to this market-over a million copies sold to date. Each edition is welcomed by established and emerging readers alike, as Passport delivers in nearly 600 pages what world band listeners seek: * Three-way guide to what's on from stations in dozens of countries: news, entertainment and opinion in English and other languages. All three formats: country-by-country, channel-by-channel, hour-by-hour. * Award-winning reviews of world band radios and accessories, with ratings of dozens of models from Sony, Grundig and others. Radios for emergencies, too. * Wealth of helpful how-to articles, along with a directory of station contacts, webcasts and a glossary. This annual title keeps readers coming back year after year, making it what one chain buyer hails as a quiet bestseller.
Voice and Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Film and DV Production
by Mick Hurbis-Cherrier
from Focal Press
Voice & Vision is a comprehensive manual for the independent filmmakers and film students who want a solid grounding in the tools, techniques, and processes of narrative film in order to achieve their artistic vision. This book includes essential and detailed information on relevant film and digital video tools, a thorough overview of the filmmaking stages, and the aesthetic considerations for telling a visual story.
The ultimate goal of this book is to help you develop your creative voice while acquiring the solid practical skills and confidence to use it. Unlike many books that privilege raw technical information or the line-producing aspects of production, Voice & Vision places creativity, visual expression, and cinematic ideas front and center. After all, every practical decision a filmmaker makes, like choosing a location, an actor, a film stock, a focal length, a lighting set-up, an edit point, or a sound effect is also an expressive one and should serve the filmmakers vision. Every decision, from the largest conceptual choices to the smallest practical solutions, has a profound impact on what appears on the screen and how it moves an audience.
In Practice sidebars throughout Voice & Vision connect conceptual, aesthetic and technical issues to their application in the real world. Some provide a brief analysis of a scene or technique from easily rentable films which illustrate how a specific technology or process is used to support a conceptual, narrative, or aesthetic choice. Others recount common production challenges encountered on real student and professional shoots which will inspire you to be innovative and resourceful when you are solving your own filmmaking challenges.
Other features in Voice & Vision include:
* Comprehensive technical information on film and digital video production with a focus on low-budget techniques and creative expression
* Close to 600 lavish illustrations
* A seamless integration of film and digital video. Express yourself with any camera and any format.
* A focus on successful filmmaking within limitations, learn to work successfully with available resources (time, equipment, budget, personnel) and turn limitations into opportunities.
* A substantial exploration of the sound tools and techniques used in film production and the creative impact of the post-production sound design.
Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production
by Jonathan Kern
from University Of Chicago Press
Jonathan Kern, who has trained NPR’s on-air staff for years, is a gifted guide, able to narrate a day in the life of a host and lay out the nuts and bolts of production with equal wit and warmth. Along the way, he explains the importance of writing the way you speak, reveals how NPR books guests ranging from world leaders to neighborhood newsmakers, and gives sage advice on everything from proposing stories to editors to maintaining balance and objectivity. Best of all—because NPR wouldn’t be NPR without its array of distinctive voices—lively examples from popular shows and colorful anecdotes from favorite personalities animate each chapter.
As public radio’s audience of millions can attest, NPR’s unique guiding principles and technical expertise combine to connect with listeners like no other medium can. With today’s technologies allowing more people to turn their home computers into broadcast studios, Sound Reporting couldn’t have arrived at a better moment to reveal the secrets behind the story of NPR’s success.
Writing for Television, Radio, and New Media (Wadsworth Series in Broadcast and Production)
by Robert L. Hilliard
from Wadsworth Publishing
You can trust Hilliard's WRITING FOR TELEVISION, RADIO, AND NEW MEDIA to provide you with thorough and up-to-date coverage of the principles, techniques, and approaches of writing for television, radio, and the Internet, including writing for a variety of formats such as interviews, sports, advertisements, scripts, and news. Hilliard's vast coverage of content, excellent organization, attention to form, and good examples ensure that you will be well-trained for a career in WRITING FOR TELEVISION, RADIO, AND NEW MEDIA.
How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records
by Frank Broughton
from Grove Press
NPR Driveway Moments All About Animals: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go (Npr Driveway Moments)
from HighBridge Company
Stories from the National Public Radio archives celebrate our relationship with our furry, feathered, and sometimes scaly friends.
What’s a "driveway moment"? It's when you're so captivated by a story you're hearing on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you're sitting in your driveway with the motor running. For years, listeners have written to NPR to describe such moments. Now animal lovers especially will want to make sure their tanks are full.
Meet a dog who's addicted to toads, a chatty parrot who tells the truth, the Stupid Pet Tricks coordinator for the Late Show with David Letterman, and a professional dog walker whose day features 14 canines and a lot of fresh air. Learn about a dog's life in Vietnam (where dog meat is a delicacy) and the heartrending search for lost pets following Hurricane Katrina. Visit a retirement community for thoroughbred racehorses and the Wait Wait petting zoo, where cows moo with British accents and mice dislike cheese. Bid farewell to a cat named Miss Pudding and welcome three orphaned hummingbirds home.
Heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me!, hosted by Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, these stories will make you laugh out loud and shed a tear or two.
The Radio Station, Seventh Edition: Broadcast, Satellite & Internet
by MICHAEL C KEITH
from Focal Press
The bible for beginning radio professionals. A complete guide to the internal workings of radio stations and the radio industry.
Readers new to radio understand how each job is best performed, and they will know how it meshes with those of the rest of the radio station staff. For readers uncertain of career goals, this book provides a solid foundation in who does what, when, and why. The Radio Station details all departments within a radio station.
Topics explained include satellite radio, Web radio, AM stereo, cable and podcasting. Also, mergers and consolidation, future prospects, new digital technologies. This edition is loaded with new illustrations, feature boxes and quotes from industry pros.
Going strong after 20 years, The Radio Station is now in its seventh edition and long considered the standard work on this audio medium. It remains a concise and candid guide to the internal workings of radio stations and the radio industry, explaining the functions performed successfully within every well-run station.
*Classic and candid guide to the internal workings of radio stations
*Updated to include a discussion of the podcasting boom
*New analysis of satellite radio and its role in radio broadcasting today
Humor: Stories from the Collection More News from Lake Wobegon
by Garrison Keillor
from Highbridge Audio
A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Humor includes "Skinny Dip," "Homecoming," "The Freedom of the Press," and "Vicks."
Creating Powerful Radio: Getting, Keeping and Growing Audiences News, Talk, Information & Personality Broadcast, HD, Satellite & Internet
by Valerie Geller
from Focal Press
Creating Powerful Radio
For Managers, Programmers and Talent
* GROW AUDIENCES - Increase your ratings! LifeStage Demographics: Know your audience and how they listen.
* PROGRAMMING Build exciting programming - even on dull news days - with proven techniques to guide programmers and talent to the next level of performance.
* NEWS: Write, produce and deliver powerful news. Learn multiple version techniques and much more.
* PERSONALITY Identify winning talent. Develop strong air personalities. Learn to manage high ego talent and motivate your staff to do their best.
* TALK Secrets to improve your show. Learn powerful radio interview techniques and ways to make the talk win big.
* INFORMATION Break down the walls between news and entertainment radio. Creative methods to easily write and deliver complex, detailed stories or issues using the multi-version method.
* PROMOTIONS Learn methods to spread the word about your station and write powerful copy for more effective promos and commercials
* AIRCHECKING A comprehensive step-by-step guide to show prep and effective airchecking.
Valerie Geller is an internationally acclaimed broadcast consultant working with stations that emphasize news, talk, information and personality radio.
www.gellermedia.com
What people are saying about Valerie Geller's Creating Powerful Radio
"A tremendous work!"
- Scott Shannon,
program director/air personality
WPLJ, New York
"This is the book I hope my competitors don't read.
It's required reading for my staff."
- Jerry Bell,
managing news editor,
KOA/KTLK, Denver
"If you want to understand what makes radio work, read this, then read it again."
- Jon Faine,
air personality,
774 ABC Radio
Melbourne, Australia
"It should be a textbook."
- Chris Berry,
general manager,
WMAL, Washington, DC
"If you want to achieve compelling radio and increase audiences, read this book immediately! Station 97.3 in London has experienced massive growth using its methods."
- Scott Solder
programme controller
LBC Radio, London
"This book helped me create Britain's most successful local radio station, with a 40 percent market share and number one in the UK. Buy it. It works!"
- Keri Jones,
CEO/Radio Pembrokeshire
Wales, UK
"Making it in broadcasting takes more than just luck. Creating Powerful Radio is your 'Road Guide' to success in radio."
- Andy Vierra
program director
KNUU, Las Vegas
"This book will help your show get better."
- Al Rantel
talk show host
KABC, Los Angeles
"Wonderful."
- Paul Fisher,
vice president, Rogers Radio
Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Valerie Geller's first book was a triumph. It has proved to be an excellent primer for my staff. Valerie is an inspiration. If you can't get her for your station, buy this book."
- John Ryan, managing director
BBC Radio. Manchester, UK
"Creating Powerful Radio is a fine guide for people inside the radio biz and an explanation of that biz to people outside, including the people who would like to get in. It's the kind of book where the reader thinks, 'Oh that's why they do that.' "
- David Hinkley
New York Daily News
"This should be required reading in every newsroom and every radio station."
- Radio World
"Creating Powerful Radio might eventually make an executive's job at a satellite formatted affiliate much tougher."
- Professor Peter Hunn
Communications Studies Department
State University of New York, Oswego
"It's great. Read it!"
- Kim Komando
syndicated air personality
"I recommend it to everyone and I use it in my classes. I love this book."
- Jo Maeder (The Rock 'N Roll Madame)
air personality and instructor
New York University
"Packed with insights, well written, and fun to read. It's obvious why so many radio people consider this book 'a must!' "
- John Sawatsky, professor of journalism
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
"Brilliant."
- Phil Taylor,
BBC, Scotland
"Creating Powerful Radio contains valuable
tips and information for presenters, managers, and programmers."
- Julia Sullivan,
Music & Media
"Useful and practical."
- Jan Orskov, journalist,
Danmarks Radio, Denmark
"It's my bible!"
- Asa Paborn,
program director,
SBS Radio, Stockholm, Sweden
"We gave copies to the entire staff."
- Viktor Worms, Antenne Bayern
Munich, Germany
"Anyone even considering a career in radio should read this!"
- Adele Scheele, Ph.D,
Career Strategist, author: "Skills for Success"
* GROW AUDIENCES - Increase your ratings! LifeStage Demographics: Know your audience and how they listen.
* PROGRAMMING - Build exciting programming - even on dull news days - with proven techniques to guide programmers and talent to the next level of performance.
* PERSONALITY - Identify winning talent. Develop strong air personalities. Learn to manage high ego talent and motivate your staff to do their best.
* TALK - Secrets to improve your show. Learn powerful radio interview techniques and ways to make the talk win big.
* INFORMATION - Break down the walls between news and entertainment radio. Creative methods to easily write and deliver complex, detailed stories or issues using the "multi-version" method.
* PROMOTIONS - Learn methods to spread the word about your station and write powerful copy for more effective promos and commercials
* AIRCHECKING - A comprehensive step-by-step guide to show prep and effective airchecking.
A Prairie Home Companion: English Majors: A Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate (Prairie Home Companion)
from HighBridge Company
Skits and bits from A Prairie Home Companion celebrate the secret society of men and women who possess excellent spelling and punctuation skills.
ENGLISH MAJORS. You know who you are and here is a double-CD celebrating the secret society of those who, though they may be chauffeuring kids to swim lessons or writing Unix programs or frying cheeseburgers, still could, if need be, write a term paper on the water imagery in The Waste Land.
Includes the Six-Minute Hamlet, the Ten-Minute MacBeth,tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, the Ballad of John Henry ('John Henry was an English major and poetry was his line. He sat by the window with his yellow legal pad and he wrote one sentence at a time.'), and more.
With guest appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Billy Collins, Roy Blount Jr., Robert Bly, Donald Hall, and Calvin Trillin.
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