Product Description

This expanded text provides coverage of on-air announcing and performance, pronunciation, voice, diction, news and commercial delivery, interviewing, ad-libbing, the station setting and equipment, career and job possibilities. Presents these topics within a skills-building framework, focusing on the announcer/performer as a communicator. This book should be of interest to students taking a course on Radio-TV Announcing, Broadcast Performance, On-Air Broadcasting, and Professional Broadcast Communication. An instructor's manual is available.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6674009 in Books
• Published on: 1992-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

About the Author
Carl Hausman (Ph.D., the Union Graduate School; post-doctoral fellowship, New York University) is Associate Professor of Communications at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. Hausman is the author of 20 books, including nine on the mass media. He has worked as a radio producer, staff announcer, and freelance voice-over announcer. In addition to his experience in news and news management he has testified before Congress on media ethics issues.

Lewis B. O¿Donnell (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego. O¿Donnell, former president of a radio station ownership group, has worked in a variety of management and performance positions in radio and television. He has been awarded the Frank Stanton Fellowship by the International Radio and Television Society and the New York State Chancellor¿s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Philip Benoit (M.A., State University of New York, Oswego) is director of Public Affairs at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. Formerly the director of broadcasting at SUNY Oswego, Benoit has a broad background in radio, television, and public relations. He was executive officer of the American Forces Network in Europe and American Advisor to the Vietnamese Armed Forces Radio Network.