Here’s another excerpt from Fred Allen’s 1954 account of his time in radio, Treadmill to Oblivion, referenced below. He is describing his next venture after his first radio show, The Linit Bath Club Revue. I believe these events took place in 1932. This led to our next radio venture, the Salad Bowl Revue, which was [...]
WebbyConnect: Know Your History
Another interesting panel was “Your Favorite Video is a Commercial,” which had a lot to do with viral marketing campaigns utilizing amusing or interesting content (typically videos) that people love and share and while loving and sharing them, they do Corporate America’s bidding. Examples include Dove’s “Evolution” ad and Burger King’s Subservient Chicken website (or [...]
Le Show on the road
You’ve possibly read coverage this week of the SXSW Festival. Did you know that Harry Shearer took his Le Show radio program to SXSW? He had musical guests, including Lyle Lovett and Shearer’s wife Judith Owen. I had never heard Owen sing before; I found her to be a little overly emotive, in a Tori [...]
“I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver…”
No big surprise. Radio sucks and has for years. Even public radio has gotten narrower in focus and less adventurous, as it has learned to be self-sustaining. So those of us who care have been undeniably gleeful at Eliot Spitzer’s pursuit of Sony on payola charges. But I think some people are fooling themselves if [...]