Understanding Radio (Studies in Culture and Communication)

Understanding Radio Second edition

Studies in Culture and Comunication General Editor: John Fiske Introduction to Communication Studies John Fiske Understanding News John Hartley Case Studies and Projects in Communication Neil McKeown Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies Tim O’Sullivan, John Hartley, Danny Saunders, Martin Montgomery and John Fiske An Introduction to Language and Society Martin Montgomery Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience Iain Chambers On Video Roy Armes Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner Television Drama: Agency, Audience and Myth John Tulloch Understanding Television Edited by Andrew Goodwin and Garry Whannel A Primer for Daily Life Susan Willis Communications and the ‘Third World’ Geoffrey Reeves Advertising as Communication Gillian Dyer The Ideological Octopus: An Exploration of Television and its Audience Justin Lewis Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture Henry Jenkins

Understanding Radio

Second edition

Andrew Crisell

London and New York

First published in 1986 by Methuen & Co. Ltd Second edition published 1994 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group !"#$%&'#(#)*%+,-.#$"&'%#*%("&%!/0.)1%2%31/*4#$%&56#-1/107%899:; © 1986, 1994 Andrew Crisell The author and publishers would like to thank the following for permission to quote from Garrison Keillor, A Radio Romance (US title WLT: A Radio Romance) in the preliminary pages of the book: Faber & Faber Ltd, Penguin Books Canada and Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., © 1991 Garrison Keillor. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Crisell, Andrew. Understanding Radio/Andrew Crisell. – 2nd ed. p. cm. – (Studies in culture and communication) 1. Radio broadcasting–Great Britain. I. Title. II. Series. PN1991.3.G7C75 1994 384.54'0941–dc20 93–43580 ISBN 0–415–10315–0 '#(#)*? @ABC%9589D5:D::95E%F/$(&1%&5-))G%@ABC% @ABC%9589D5:HIDJ5:%