Points on the dial
Subtitle: golden age radio beyond the networks
By: Alexander Russo.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822345176; 9780822345329
Subjects: Radio broadcasting -- United States -- History; Radio programs -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: "An earlier version of chapter 3 first appeared as "Defensive transcriptions : radio networks, sound-on-disc recording, and the meaning of live broadcasting," Velvet Light Trap 54 (Fall 2004): 4/17."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The value of a name : defining and redefining national network radio; title: "The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not want" : regional networks as sites of community and conflict; title: Brought to you via electrical transcription : sound-on-disc recording and the perceptual aesthetics of radio distribution technologies; title: On the spot : the spatial and temporal flow of spot broadcasting; title: People with money and go : locating attention in the human geography of radio reception.