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The Birth of Top 40 Radio

The Storz Stations' Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s

By: Richard W. Fatherley,David T. MacFarland

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The Birth of Top 40 Radio

The Storz Stations' Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s

By: Richard W. Fatherley,David T. MacFarland

Top 40" was the preeminent American radio format of the 1950s and 1960s. Although several radio station group owners offered their own versions of the format, the AM stations owned by Todd Storz and his father were acknowledged as the principal developers of Top 40 radio, and the prime movers in making it a nationwide ratings and revenue success. The Storz Stations in St. Louis, Omaha, New Orleans, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Oklahoma City and Miami are profiled in this book, as are various Storz air personalities and executives. A detailed chapter examines the unique "Storz Station sound," revealing the complexity of what detractors portrayed as a simplistic format. Another covers Storz advertising in radio trade magazines, which cemented the company's image as the format's most successful station group and Top 40 as the dominant programming of the day. There are extensive quotations from the memoirs of several of the founders of the format.

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ISBN 10

0786476303

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9780786476305

Contemporary Radio Programming Strategies

By: David T. MacFarland

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Contemporary Radio Programming Strategies

By: David T. MacFarland

This book, first published in 1990, offers an in-depth analysis of the ‘fundamental beliefs’ of radio. This refers to the common understanding of what the radio enterprise is – and should be – about: entertainment and information. A major thrust of this book is to arrive at a set of fundamental beliefs about the values and the realities of the radio business in regard to entertainment programming – a set of beliefs that may or may not be right, or forever, but that might at least provide a basis for developing programming strategies. Most other books on radio programming describe the formats and programming that already exist. This one starts with a clean sheet of paper and the question ‘What do listeners really want from radio?’

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225

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Routledge

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1315443511

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9781315443515

Science in the Romantic Era

By: David Knight

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Science in the Romantic Era

By: David Knight

First published in 1998. The Romantic Era was a time when society, religion and other beliefs, and science were all in flux. The idea that the universe was a great clock, and that men were little clocks, all built by a divine watchmaker, was giving way to a more dynamic and pantheistic way of thinking. A new language was invented for chemistry, replacing metaphor with algebra; and scientific illustration came to play the role of a visual language, deeply involved with theory. A scientific community came gradually into being as the 19th century wore on. The papers which compose this book have appeared in a wide range of books and journals; together with the new introduction they illuminate science and its context in the Romantic Era and follow its effects in the 19th century.

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401

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1317242181

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9781317242185

The Birth of Top 40 Radio

The Storz Stations' Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s

By: Richard W. Fatherley,David T. MacFarland

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The Storz Stations' Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s

By: Richard W. Fatherley,David T. MacFarland

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The Birth of Top 40 Radio

The Birth of Top 40 Radio

Contemporary Radio Programming Strategies

Contemporary Radio Programming Strategies

Science in the Romantic Era

Science in the Romantic Era

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