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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780769778228
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0769778224
Label: White Star
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: White Star
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: White Star
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Running Time: 60 minutes
Studio: White Star
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
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Editorial Review:Description:Talk Radio is unquestionably the fastest growing radio format in America today. The History Of Talk Radio is a comprehensive and entertaining documentary which provides an in-depth look at this incredibly popular medium. This informative program focuses on the little -known facts which surround the early years of Talk Radio and features never-before-seen archival material of the darling pioneers of this radio format including: Joe Pyne, Alan Burke, Long John Nebel, Barry Gray and many others. This unique show also features interviews and fascinating live interactive clips of today's leading talk show personalities including: Larry King, Bob Grant, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Ollie North, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Morton Downey, Jr., G. Gordon Liddy, as well as an inside look at superstars, Howard Stern, Don Imus and Rush Limbaugh. The History Of Talk Radio is a provocative and revealing overview of this controversial broadcast medium which has captured the attention of all Americans by its proven capacity to entertain, as well as its ability to affect the course of our political history.
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i have been in radio most of my life, and i love talk radio...this video would like to proclaim itself as 'the history of talk radio', but it is nothing more than a republican, conservative white-wash of the truth...
they try to make out like rush limbaugh is the savior of the talk radio format, along with fellow gop flunkies oliver north and g.gordon liddy, but they pass over don imus and howard stern with the blink of an eye...
now, i'm no fan of stern at all, (quite the contrary), ...
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Too much New York bias (and I'm an ex-New Yorker who listened to the profiled personalities in my youth) hurt this effort. Tom Leykis and the late great Jean Shepherd were conspiciously missing. The Chicago School (Studs Terkel) wasn't on this video tape at all. In short, this film was a flawed effort, a disappointment.
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