Continuous Wave
A newsletter and site exploring the forgotten history of broadcast and all electronic media.
Can we learn from the warnings of the past?
"Mike fright" was so widespread in radio’s first decade, it affected the design of studios and programs. It still haunts podcasting today.
Radio made one dirigible disaster famous. It may have averted another.
How sexism got hard-wired into radio
A conversation with Anna Sale and a ghost
What else we should learn from the story of Edward R. Murrow
Europe, throw a lifeline to public media in the US — while it still exists
A conversation with Neil Verma
Radio's "liveness bias" started as a regulation, then turned into a business model that grew ever more absurd
There's so much great scholarship on radio and podcasting. Here's a list to get you started.
For more than two decades, the biggest US radio networks insisted on live programming and tried to ban recorded material on air. Why?
Samuel F.B. Morse went from broke artist to living legend. But for the inventor of the telegraph, it was never enough.
