Acknowledgments

I spent the first 5 years of my life at radio station KOA (Denver), confined to safe places while my father read the news and my mother used her voice to play parts in various radio dramas. Thus, it might be fair to say that I was born into broadcasting, with a special relationship to voices and sound. To this end, I must acknowledge my parents who were the first to teach me technical fascination.

After that, the list is long. It starts with two teachers at San Francisco State University, Herb Zettl and Stuart W. Hyde. They convinced me that television was more fascinating than radio, and if my father never forgave them for this treachery, they nevertheless started his daughter on a journey that began in community affairs at ...

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