Talk radio has grown exponentially in the United States. The growth in talk radio was ignited by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed station owners to purchase more stations without a...

Low Hanging Fruit: How Sports Talk Radio Hosts Discuss Racism:

Using scripts, publications, and philatelic press descriptions, this study investigates programs for stamp collectors in the early years of radio. NBC's Ivory Stamp Club of the Air was the most prominent of these. Syndicated and locally originated philatelic programming was widespread in the late 1930s and continued into the 1960s in Canada and the USA. Some programs appealed to kids but others were targeted at adults and sophisticated collectors. A strong male bias pervaded the programming. Culturally, appeals to patriotic and nationalistic pride were common, with programs providing stories behind why stamps commemorated certain events in the issuing nations' histories.

Philatelic Programs on Early North American Radio

All-sports radio became a natural byproduct of the informational radio trend of the 1980s. It originated in New York and other large markets. Although it originated as a large market format, today there are dozens of sports radio stations on the air in markets large and small, with many major markets supporting more than one sports radio station. This article analyzes all-sports radio in a medium market, Peoria, Illinois, the 150th largest market in America. National sports networks provide an essential connection to big league sports in Peoria, but coverage of local sports is valuable in establishing a brand identity.

Michael Thurwanger

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Localism and All-Sports Radio