Radio: The Book, 4th Edition

PREFACE

This will be the fourth time I have tackled the project of writing about radio. In earlier editions I asked myself, “Why write a book about radio in the first place?” but early in the 1970s when I was working at my first New York City radio job (WPAT), I had lots of time to think about where I was and how I got there. It seemed like a quantum leap from a high school station in New Albany, Indiana (WNAS), to being on the air in the top radio market in the world. At that time I thought I would put pen to paper and document how I made the journey. It took about a year of inconsistent effort to gather what finally amounted to a collection of anecdotes and stories I’d accumulated in ten years. I called the collection Floaters, Drifters, and ...