Cross Talk: Season Five, Episode 16

“On women in radio on International Women’s Day”.  From March 4, 2021.  When academics and researchers write about women in radio they tend to lean toward public radio and community radio.  That's largely the case in a new book about women in radio in Canada.  It's another worthwhile edition.  I wonder if academia isn't missing a lot though, if more time is not spent examining the roles of some very well-known and popular women in commercial radio.  A few suggestions here, from my own long years in commercial radio, about women whose stories I think would make valuable study.  For educational purposes.  Makes fair dealing use of bits of audio from CBC, CHUM-FM, City-TV.  (Photo: Women in Radio - Unfiltered Voices from Canada. Edited by Genevieve Bonin-Labelle; University of Ottawa Press, 2020.). For more on the historic significance to radio of Hilda Matheson, please check Season 2, Episode 6.