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Radio and audio media history, commentary, analysis. Researched, written, hosted and produced by Paul Cross.
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Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
On the Canadian Christmas eve broadcast that gave Radio to the World. From December, 2018. Fair use application of bits of broadcast audio from BBC, CBC, CNR Radio, NPR, HistoricaCanada.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
On Radio's lessons from the Ice Storm. From December, 2018 produced for the fifth anniversary of the great ice storm of 2013. Fair use application of bits of broadcast audio from CP24 tv, CBC tv, Global tv, Newstalk 1010 CFRB Toronto.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
On Talk Radio and its lack of outrage over violation of constitutional rights in Ontario. From September 13, 2018. Commentary.
Note: late in the podcast I make a reference to "supreme" court; of course what I meant to say -- and is shown in the script in keeping with the facts of the story -- is "superior" court.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
On podcasts and podcasting in the postgrad RAMP program at Humber College, Toronto. From November 27, 2018. Fair use application of bits of Serial, The Shadows, The Daily, Ways of Hearing, Murder Was the Case, Bronzeville, Someone Knows Something, Podcast Playlist, Our Fake History. A podcast about the growing importance of podcasting.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
On what we learned from live reporting on JFK - 55 years later. From November 22, 2018. Fair use application of bits of audio from KBOX, Associated Press, CBS Radio, ABC Radio, NBC television.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
On understanding how parents might be angry, but the news is not the media's fault. From November 19, 2018. Fair use application of bits of broadcast audio from City TV, Newstalk 1010 CFRB Toronto, 680News Toronto. Refers to a criminal case, so some of the information will become dated.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
On the birth of two new Radio stations. From November 4, 2018. Fair use application of bits of broadcast audio from CFPT 106.5 Element FM Toronto and CKNT Sauga 960 AM Mississauga. How two new Radio stations enter the Toronto market.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
On Radio's right to commentary in Canada, and keeping opinion out of the news. From October 31, 20-18. Fair use application of bits of broadcast audio from Global News Radio AM640 Toronto, Newstalk 1010 CFRB Toronto. Makes reference to RTDNA Canada.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
How listeners missed at least 26 signs the War of the Worlds is fiction. From October 25, 2018. Produced in time for the 80th anniversary of a brilliant Radio drama which has been used against Radio by a hostile press and gullible academia ever since.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
How newspapers and questionable research manufactured a "panic" over a Radio show. From October, 2018. How newspapers of the day were so frightened of Radio they used sloppy reporting to manufacture negative stories about the War of the Worlds Radio broadcast. And how the research into the reaction to the show has been selectively misquoted since 1940.