A guest post from the creator of "Metropolis"
The lost visual weirdness of local radio
A shrine filled with ancient audio gear will do you good
How sexism got hard-wired into radio
Radio made one dirigible disaster famous. It may have averted another.
"Mike fright" was so widespread in radio’s first decade, it affected the design of studios and programs. It still haunts podcasting today.
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.
Why learn from broadcasting’s past? Because everything is broadcasting.
