Excerpt from Radio DirectingThe past ten years have witnessed a phenomenal growth in the number of radio courses offered in our colleges and universities. Instructors, unaware of the differences between a kilocycle and a decibel, and vaguely suspicious that radio was the poor relative of the theatre, concert hall, lecture platform, and classroom, have had the responsibility for such courses thrust upon them. When confronted with both students and a baffling array of gadgets, they have searched desperately for a written document that would aid them in meeting their situation.During this same period others have become increasingly familiar with the medium and its use. As their familiarity has grown, the conviction has deepened that, to give a radio course solidity, a book must be available that would treat the fundamental problems of production sanely and practically.Earle McGill has written such a book. In it the novitiate will find practical guidance and counsel. The initiate will profit by the same guidance, but, more importantly, he will discover a treatment of the subject that his own experience will tell him derives from the richer experience of a fellow worker.It is fortunate that the first serious attempt to treat radio production has been written by one who makes his living in radio. Those of us concerned with broadcasting courses in colleges and universities, because of the nature of our jobs, are seldom able to devote all of our time and energy to radio. Hence, our knowledge of the medium, the variety of programs that it utilizes, the many major and minor crises that prematurely age the director, and the harsh disciplines that radio imposes on its workers lacks the intimacy and reality of the knowledge of one to whom these matters make the difference between holding and losing a job.Within these pages most readers will agree that a structure of practical advice has been reared on the solid base of a sane philosophy about radio. Herein one will find no "arty nonsense."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.