Airwaves of New York

Bill Jaker is senior producer for WSKG Public Broadcasting in Binghamton, New York. The late Frank Sulek was a radio producer for the Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. Peter Kanze co-produced the BBC/Billboard series Twenty-five Years of Rock, managed WARY-FM at Westchester Community College and is retired as a studio engineer for the ABC Radio Network.

• Table of ContentsForeword by Joe Franklin      Acknowledgments      Introduction      THE METROPOLITAN AM RADIO STATIONS      Appendix: New York Sports on the Radio      Selected Bibliography      Index

“thorough…informative…interesting”—Reference Reviews; “valuable”—Radio Recall; “useful...a model of such a work”—Communication Booknotes Quarterly; “a substantial amount of old time radio history, well presented, about some of America’s pioneer broadcasting stations”—North American Radio Archives; “first-rate...chronicles every city station from 1921 to 1996”—New York Daily News; “a must for anyone who is intrigued by radio’s mystery and magic”—Essex News Weekly; “any devotee of old-time radio will get a kick out of [this]...a lavish pictorial history”—Small Market Radio Newsletter; “in-depth...describes the changes that took place in programming over the years and their influence on the entire country”—The Viking News.