A Survey of Recent Articles
During its heyday in the 1930s and '40s, radio was a national entertainment me- dium. Local stations belonged to net- works-the National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting System-that offered comedy programs, action dramas, soap operas, and variety shows, and America lis- tened, notes Boston College professor Marilyn J. Matelski in a special issue of Freedom Forum's Media Studies Journal (Summer 1993) devoted to the "forgotten" medium. But...