Research Catalog

Title

Making waves : the people and places of Iowa broadcasting / Jeff Stein ; foreword by Grant Price ; preface by Jack Shelley.

Author

Stein, Jeff, 1963-

Publication

Cedar Rapids, Iowa : WDG Communications, 2004.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

vi, 186 p. : ill., maps; 24 x 26 cm. +

Subject

Broadcasting > Iowa > History

Genre/Form

• CD-ROMs.
• History

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM [PC]: Pentium III with 450 MHz or better ; 128 MB RAM ; Windows 98/Me/2000/XP ; sound card ; CD-ROM drive.
• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM [Macintosh]: Power Macintosh G3 ; 128 MB RAM ; OS X.1.5 ; sound card ; CD-ROM drive.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Foreword -- Preface -- Sounds Flying Through The Air -- Shenandoah's Famous Seed Men -- The College Component -- A Dangerous Business -- Adding Pictures To Sound -- The Fight for Television -- Inventions Along the Way -- Down On The Farm -- Extension in the Field -- For The Children -- A Word From Our Sponsor -- Good Sports -- Dutch and the Cubs -- Televised Hoopla -- The Man On The Street and More -- Where Stations Get Their Call Letters -- In The Home and In The Kitchen -- The Role of Women in Broadcasting -- Entertainers On The Stage -- Those Who Started in Iowa -- Spinning The Discs -- Public Broadcasting in Iowa -- Watching The Skies -- An Industry with Impact -- Keeping Iowa Informed -- Broadcasters as Politicians -- Covering The Big Stories -- Professional Organizations -- Giving Something Back To The Community -- Collins Radio and Iowa Broadcasting -- A Look Toward The Future -- The Legacy of Quarton and McElroy -- Timeline of Iowa Broadcasting Highlights -- Bibliography.

ISBN

0971832315

LCCN

^^2004006915

OCLC

54844092

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library