Radio Books

What a pleasure to have a new book with tasty recipes that aren't a rehash of the oldies. This one is a keeper.

This book has been ranked as a Top Ten BestSelling Voiceover Book at the Amazon.com Associate Bookstore at VOICEARTIST

Reading this book and working through the cd won't exactly make you a broadcasting star, but it definitely guides you at the required talents and qualifications for conforming to industry standards.

The cd-rom consists of video and audio segments or snippets as they are quite short on the average; it includes voice commentaries, installation videos, teleprompters, and practice media for you to develop your skills.

The book is and entertaining read with chapters on the history of broadcasting, the various types of broadcasting( radio dj, television, cable etc), the great broacasters, interviews, the biology of the human voice mechanism, techniques and the like.

Overall this book is definitely helpful in guiding towards the broadcasting industry and could be useful for students of mass communication and media studies.

I teach Radio/Television Broadcasting (along with being Director of Engineering, CMAT) at a State University. I read this book and many others trying to find the perfect book to use in the B'cast Engineering courses I teach here. This book is by far the best I've ever seen for the beginner to novice Engineer. I started my B'cast career in 1978 -- I wish this book would have been around then, or even during my first 5 years!!! It's written in simple terms making it easy to understand, yet completely covers the subject to the most technical aspects. If you're majoring in Communications and have an eye on the technical side, GET THIS BOOK!

Gregory

Jeff Rowe, consumate professional in everything he does, meticulously touches essential topics in the world of broadcasting and speaks to inspiring journalists as well as those already embedded in the profession. Covering issues ranging from news judgment and reporting to interviewing techniques, script writing to media law, many of his reccommendations translate across the lines to print journalism. Written clearly and succinctly, a definite recommendation for anyone interested in learning the "how tos" of broadcasting and entering the exciting field of broadcast journalism. No one could have said it better than Rowe.

L'Oreal Battistelli
Assistant Editor, Sun Newspaper
Seal Beach, California

This book will tell you everything you need to know about ANY radio or TV station in the US!

This book has been used broadly in American Universities from the first Edition. This book provides a lot of infomarion about history, procedure, and broadcating technology itself in the United States. Currently, the area of broadcasting has been broaden into Internet. Web-casting is one of new types of broadcasting internationally. This 4th edition includes this new shapes of broadcasting on the Web. I hope this edition gives more insights of American broadcasting systems.

Listening to "Buckminster Fuller An Audio Biography" is like sitting at a coffee shop with Lloyd Sieden as he tells engaging stories of the life of his friend Buckminster Fuller. Stories range from Bucky's acheivements to his struggles to continue his "life as an experiement". The human side of Bucky is protrayed and I felt a connection with his unique spirit. I especially enjoyed the story of how Bucky's uncles raised money to pay for his college. With money in hand Bucky's interest in a good time diverted him from making it to college.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Script Book, Season Two, Volume 3" begins the Angelus story arc that dominated that spectaular sophomore season (episodes 13-17). Having a copy of the scripts in hands really puts the final touches on your enjoyment of these episodes and not just because you can find differences between what is in the final shooting script and what got aired on television, but also because you get to see the stage directions that Joss Whedon and the other writers have put in as well:

"Surprise," written by Marti Noxon, begins with Buffy having nightmares about Angel getting dusted and ends with her celebrating her birthday in a way that gives her vampire with a soul boyfriend a moment of true happiness that has horrible consequences. We discover these in "Innocence," written by Whedon, where Angeleus takes over the attempt to raise the Judge from Spike and Dru. "Phases," written by Rob DesHotel and Dean Batali, takes time out from the Angelus threat for Oz to discover that he has been transformed into a werewolf after being bit by his nephew. Then there is the comic relief of Marti Noxon's "Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered," in which Cordelia breaks up with Xander--on Valentine's Day no less--and he responds by getting Amy the witch to work a love spell, with results pretty much the complete opposite of what he intended.

That distraction only heightens the pathos of "Passion," written by Ty King, in which Angelus kills Jenny Calendar and finally succeeds in convincing Buffy that the vampire she loves has to die. The conclusion of the Angelus story arc and Season 2 of "BtVS" turns out to be even more painful as the show becomes absolutely operatic.

Given that I already have all of season three of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on DVD, it is a legitimate question to ask why I feel the need to pick up "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Three, Volume 1" (along with the its half dozen predecessors and the "Once More With Feeling" script). My answer would be now that "BtVS" has sailed off into television history and Sunnydale is just a big old hole in the ground, if we are never going to have any more new episodes to watch, then we might as well go back and milk every last vestige of enjoyment out of the old ones.

The sources of enjoyment are twofold. First, these teleplays represent the original shooting scripts for the first six episodes from the third season. That means you get not only typos and misattributions, but dialogue and even full scenes that were not included in the final broadcast version of the show because they were cut due to length (but if you read along while you watch the episodes on DVD you will notice that sometimes there are additional establishing shots, a sure sign that the episode was running short instead of long). Second, there are stage directions and if there is anybody on the face of the earth whose stage directions you would want to read in a television script those would be those that escape from the fertile mind of Joss Whedon. True, he only writes one of the episodes of the half-dozen collected here, but it is well known that he is involved in editing the rest of the scripts.

Included in this volume are the scripts for: "Anne" by Joss Whedon, "Dead Man's party" by Marti Noxon, "Faith, Hope & Trick" by David Greenwalt, "Beauty and the Beasts" by Marti Noxon, "Homecoming" by David Grenwalt, and "Band Candy" by Jane Espenson. If you do not know that these are the episodes where Buffy comes back from her adventures in Los Angeles where she fled after killing Angel, that she receives a less than warm welcome from the Scoobies, and that Faith arrives in Sunnydale, then the final question is why are you looking at this volume? These shooting scripts are meant to be enjoy by those who have these episodes memorized, not newbies.