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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array, or ALMA, is a vast array of radio telescopes and the most powerful observatory of its kind. ALMA is stationed in the Atacama Desert of Chile which is one of the world's best sites for observational astronomy because of the high altitude, nearly non-existent cloud cover, dry air and lack of light pollution and radio interference due to the small populations. ALMA peers into previously hidden regions...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Visible light, which can be seen with our eyes, comprises a small sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum. The rest of the spectrum, from short wavelength gamma rays to long-wavelength radio waves, requires special instruments to detect. ALMA uses and array of radio telescopes to detect and study radio waves from space. Radio telescopes are typically large parabolic dish antennas used singly or in an array. Radio observatories are preferentially located...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM airwaves in the 1960s and '70s with his free-form program Radio unnameable, a cultural hub for music, politics, and audience engagement. For nearly 50 years, he has been heard at midnight on New York City listener-sponsored station WBAI, utilizing the airwaves for mobilization long before today's innovations in social media. Drawing from Fass's extraordinary personal archive of audio recordings,...
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Kanopy Streaming
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Français
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Twenty-four hours in the life of Radio France, from one dawn to another. Along its corridors, inside its recording studios, with its producers, presenters, journalists and various guests. And outside on a motorbike in the wake of the Tour de France or in the company of a thunderstorm photographer.
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Caitlin Press
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When journalist Connie Kuhns approached Vancouver Cooperative Radio in 1981 to host a music program dedicated solely to playing music by women, there was some doubt at the station that there was enough music by women to fill half an hour -- and besides, who would tune in? Such was the underground nature of women's music. Despite the doubters, Rubymusic became a successful program, running for fifteen years, introducing listeners to countless artists...
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Español
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En Samuel Beckett electrónico: Samuel Beckett coclear Luz María Sánchez Cardona presenta un Beckett principalmente auditivo, sonoro. Este volumen se concentra en el corpus de las obras que Beckett escribió para la radio entre 1956 y 1961, las revisa a profundidad, las analiza y las pone en el contexto de su obra para medios electrónicos.
La autora acude a la vasta literatura en lengua inglesa sobre el tema de las tecnologías del sonido, el arte...
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English
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What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ?
The opening DJ on the Beeb's new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the face of BBC management, this ex-performance poet's personal crusade against the bland, the predictable and the smug self-satisfaction...
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English
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Within seventeen years of the first public broadcast in Britain, the nation again found itself at war. As the Second World War progressed, the BBC eventually realised the potential benefits of public radio and the service became vital in keeping an anxious public informed, upbeat and entertained behind the curtains of millions of blacked-out homes.
The Radio Front examines just how the BBC reinvented itself and delivered its carefully controlled...
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English
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Radio and the Jews: the untold story of how radio influenced America’s image of Jews, 1920s-1950s
by David S. Siegel and Susan Siegel
From stereotypes to role models, the first comprehensive look at how Jews were portrayed on radio from the 1920s to the 1950s.
-- From struggling immigrants to prominent men and women who were recognized for their significant contributions in their chosen fields.
-- From comedic characters who made a nation laugh...
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English
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"Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" graced the airways of America from 1942 until the end of the "Golden Age of Radio" in 1962. Six Actors portrayed Johnny Dollar, supported by the best radio actors available.
Volume I contains a character profile of "America's fabulous insurance investigator, the man with the action-packed expense account" based on over all available programs and scripts. Also included is an original program, "The Final Chapter Matter",...
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English
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From 1994 to 2008, I was the host of The Michael Dante Classic Celebrity Talk Show in Palm Springs, California. My wife, Mary Jane and I recorded 265 captivating radio interviews with the top classic celebrities from the world of entertainment and sports. Together, known as 'Team Dante,' we developed and co-produced a unique one-of-a-kind radio show. This exceptional collection is a personal experience; an insight into the lives of some of the world's...
19) The ex talk
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Jove
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English
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"Public radio co-hosts navigate mixed signals in Rachel Lynn Solomon's sparkling romantic comedy debut. Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she can't imagine working anywhere else. But lately it's been a constant clash between her and her newest colleague, Dominic Yun, who's fresh off a journalism master's program and convinced he knows everything about public radio. When the struggling station...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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An observational documentary which looks at Sydney's first community Aboriginal radio station, 88.9 Radio Redfern. Set against a backdrop of contemporary Aboriginal music, Radio Redfern offers a special and rare exploration of the people, attitudes and philosophies behind the lead up to a different type of celebration of Australia's Bicentennial Year. Throughout 1988, 88.9 Radio Redfern became an important focal point for communication and solidarity...
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