The cover featuring Orson Wells, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Edward R. Murrow, Howard Stern, et al. illustrates the diversity of American radio. This volume updates the 1996 Same Time...Same Station and contains some 1,000 entries and 120 b&w photos of the personalities and programs important to US culture and the broadcasting industry from classics like The Goldbergs (1927) to National Public Radio's current All Things Considered . Appends chronologies of US and Canadian radio events; show sponsors; additional radio personalities; vintage radio show clubs, conventions, newsletters, and organizations; stations that feature vintage radio show; and logs of long-running dramatic anthology shows. The author been on radio and written extensively about the medium. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less