ABSTRACT
'... a highly imaginative and often very entertaining book ... which ... probably says more than any other available text about the limitations and possibilities of present forms of radio.' Professor Laurie Taylor on the first edition of Understanding Radio
Understanding Radio is a fully revised edition of a key radio textbook. Andrew Crisell explores how radio processes genres such as news, drama and comedy in highly distinctive ways, and how the listener's use of the medium has important implications for audience studies. He explains why the sound medium, even more than television, has played such a crucial role in the development of modern popular culture.
The book also introduces students to the broadcasting landscape in a time of great change for national and local radio provision. Understanding Radio will be essential reading both to students of media and to those with a practical involvement in programme production. This new edition includes:
a revised history of radio bringing the reader right up to date
a brand new chapter on 'talk-and-music' radio, the format adopted by many of the new stations.
Andrew Crisell lectures in communication and media studies at the University of Sunderland. He has written widely on radio and co-founded Wear FM, winner of the 1992 Sony 'Radio Station of the Year' award.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |79 pages
The medium
chapter |14 pages
Characteristics of radio
chapter |25 pages
The history and development of radio in Britain
chapter |22 pages
Radio signs and codes
chapter |16 pages
Talk and music radio
part |59 pages
The world outside
chapter |44 pages
News and current affairs
chapter |13 pages
Outside broadcasts: commentary on public events
part |45 pages
The imagination
chapter |21 pages
Radio drama
chapter |22 pages
Comedy and light entertainment
part |5 pages
Conclusion