Online Broadcasting Power Review

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(More customer reviews)This is easy to use. Has a great chapter on how to start a radio station by using Shoutcast. It once was a great book, but now it is aging. Use your search first before buying this book. The Net is free and current. If then you are still in need of more info, buy this book. Not every thing is out of date. It is a novice friendly book. Wyatt Kaldenberg

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Online Broadcasting Power! offers detailed instructions for creating and broadcasting radio stations and shows on the Internet. This comprehensive guide covers: the history of broadcasting, hardware and software necessities, how to build your own SHOUTcast, Icecast, RealAudio and Netshow stations, preparing and encoding content for broadcast, managing and promoting your station and legal issues of Web broadcasting.

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The Media: Journalism In Crisis Review

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(More customer reviews)The Media: Journalism in Crisis, is apparently a companion book for a documentary, and it reads like one. A minimal amount of text discussing a particular subject is made, with the remainder of chapters being descriptions of a person, a quotation from said person, and their photograph. This is extremely distracting and, like television today, makes it difficult and prevents me from thinking or paying attention to what is being said.
A good book, in my opinion, will give some sort of brief history of journalism in its myriad forms, and then demonstrate how it's changed and how, as the title suggests, it's in crisis. Based on what I've read, it's not journalism that's in crisis, but this book definitely is. Fractured, hard to follow, at times incorrect (e.g. cable wasn't "born to get viewed out of the clutches of the then big business at ABC, CBS and NBC." It was born to help get these broadcasts to areas that were unreachable due to local geography... this is Media 101 for any media student.)
Is Journalism changing dramatically? Are opinions invading news? Are people no longer getting their information from a small number of "trusted sources"? Is it an interesting topic? Absolutely on all counts. But this is not the book you should read if you want to learn about this important topic.

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Veteran television reporter Neal Cortell tackles the subject of in The Media, Journalism in Crisis. With the help of renowned journalists, academics, regulators, and activists, The Media discusses the state of news that America awoke to each day included clearly delineated separation of reporting and editorial opinion, compared to the internet and numerous TV news outlets that frequently blur that line critical to true journalistic integrity.The elder generation might long for old fashion journalism. The younger "Instant access generation" may be wholly unfamiliar with it and the critical distinction between quantity and quality.Are we better off now then in days past and how did we get here?

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Creating Powerful Radio: Getting, Keeping and Growing Audiences News, Talk, Information & Personality Broadcast, HD, Satellite & Internet Review

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(More customer reviews)Valerie Geller has a gift for breaking down the basics of broadcasting. While being on the radio seems like it is an easy task, Valerie Geller explains very important techniques for helping the beginner all the way up to the most seasoned pro. It is a way to think about radio as a larger medium, how to use the airways as a canvas, as an art. I highly recommend this and all of Valerie's books to anyone interested in radio broadcasting. These books should be in all broadcast schools and radio stations, no matter how large the radio station is. We all need reminding of how to create powerful radio.

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Creating Powerful RadioFor Managers, Programmers and Talent* GROW AUDIENCES - Increase your ratings! LifeStage Demographics: Know your audience and how they listen.* PROGRAMMING Build exciting programming - even on dull news days - with proven techniques to guide programmers and talent to the next level of performance.* NEWS: Write, produce and deliver powerful news. Learn multiple version techniques and much more. * PERSONALITY Identify winning talent. Develop strong air personalities. Learn to manage high ego talent and motivate your staff to do their best.* TALK Secrets to improve your show. Learn powerful radio interview techniques and ways to make the talk win big.* INFORMATION Break down the walls between news and entertainment radio. Creative methods to easily write and deliver complex, detailed stories or issues using the multi-version method.* PROMOTIONS Learn methods to spread the word about your station and write powerful copy for more effective promos and commercials* AIRCHECKING A comprehensive step-by-step guide to show prep and effective airchecking.Valerie Geller is an internationally acclaimed broadcast consultant working with stations that emphasize news, talk, information and personality radio. www.gellermedia.com * GROW AUDIENCES - Increase your ratings! LifeStage Demographics: Know your audience and how they listen.* PROGRAMMING - Build exciting programming - even on dull news days - with proven techniques to guide programmers and talent to the next level of performance.* PERSONALITY - Identify winning talent. Develop strong air personalities. Learn to manage high ego talent and motivate your staff to do their best.* TALK - Secrets to improve your show.Learn powerful radio interview techniques and ways to make the talk win big.* INFORMATION - Break down the walls between news and entertainment radio.Creative methods to easily write and deliver complex, detailed stories or issues using the "multi-version" method.* PROMOTIONS - Learn methods to spread the word about your station and write powerful copy for more effective promos and commercials* AIRCHECKING - A comprehensive step-by-step guide to show prep and effective airchecking.

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The One That Got Away Review

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(More customer reviews)Have you ever loved someone, but the timing/situation was not right, and they slipped away? In the latest release from C. Kelly Robinson, titled The One That Got Away (TOTGA) the girl that got away is Serena Kincaid and the guy that is still pining for her is Tony Gooden. More than ten years have lapsed, since Tony crashed Serena's wedding to her current husband, Jamie. Fast forward a decade later and a not so accidental encounter at a friends wedding, which brings the two face to face where old memories, wounds, heartbreaks, and feelings are revisited-as well as the reason for why their paths had not crossed in all those years. But when Tony survives an untimely accident, his priorities change, and he realizes that tomorrow is not guaranteed and some people are worth taking a chance with. There are just a few roadblocks-Serena's married, dealing with a rebellious teen, and she lives in another city. Is she willing to give up what she has accomplished in the last 10 years to be with someone that dissed her a decade ago?
Robinson explores marriage, relationships, love, children and inner emotions in his latest novel. TOTGA depicts the struggles that many individuals experience in the game of love and relationships. Robinson gives us mature characters who are forced to make some tough decisions. Decisions that not only affect them but that will ultimately impact loved ones as well. We witness and feel the pain of the main characters as they make decisions with their hearts rather than their heads. Robinson delivers a conscious twisting story about love and lust between Serena and Jason and forces us to assess whether or not two individuals can go back to a love that previously existed without repercussions.
While TOTGA covers typical territory (it is primarily a relationship novel), Robinson does introduce unexpected plots twists and turns. Additionally, secondary characters are skillfully developed and their stories are integral to the primary storyline. TOTGA was an entertaining and engaging read, however, I wanted more back story regarding the primary characters; serious character flaws were alluded to for both but they were never really fleshed out. That aside, Robinson's writing was captivating enough to keep me reading this book and I was able to finish it in one sitting. Nice story for a clear, mild autumn day.Reviewed by Yasmin
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Fast-rising record exec Tony Gooden has his priorities in line: making money and loving the single life. But his game is thrown off balance when he sees Serena Kincaid, the only woman he ever put himself on the line for.

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