Monday, Feb 10

• Read: Eldon L. Ham, excerpt from “The Talking Box,” Broadcasting Baseball : A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011).
  • Suggested Reading: Daryl Austin, “Is Radio in a Second Golden Age? Here’s What the First Looked Like,” Washington Post, 7 Apr 2022.

Wednesday, Feb 12

• Read: Conclusion in Lawrence R. Samuel, Brought to You By: Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream (University of Texas Press, 2001).

For further reading & research

Radio related:

• Documentary: Radio Unnameable. 
• Kevin Lozano, “Does College Radio Even Matter Anymore?,” Pitchfork, 8 Feb 2017.
• Kirk Johnson, “As Low-Power Local Radio Rises, Tiny Voices Become a Collective Shout,” New York Times, 6 Jan 2018.
• Bala James Baptiste, “How African Americans Entered Mainstream Radio,” Black Perspectives, 6 Dec 2022.
• “Evolution of Radio Broadcasting,” in Understanding Media and Culture, University of Minnesota, 2016.
• David Foster Wallace, “Host,” The Atlantic, April 2005.
• Derek W. Vaillant, “Sounds of Whiteness: Local Radio, Racial Formation, and Public Culture in Chicago, 1921–1935,” American Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 1 (2002): 25-66.
• “Here’s How the Wireless Spectrum is Divided up in the US,” World Economic Forum, 17 Jul 2018.
• Prologue to Kristen Haring’s book, Ham Radio’s Technical Culture (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006).
• Radioactive: The Father Coughlin Story, PBS – an 8-part podcast series.
• Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio – a Ken Burns documentary that offers some useful information about some key players in the development of radio technology, though it’s important to remember that many people, organizations and institutions were collectively responsible for “making radio,” and certainly not all of them were men.

TV & Advertising Related:

• Gary Edgerton, The Columbia History of American Television (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).
• Video: Television Tomorrow (old promotional clip) via Archive.org.
• Video: The Story of Television (1956) via Archive.org.
• Ad Access – Duke University’s online advertising archive covering print media from 1911-1955.