Emerson College Library: Radio: Best Bets

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Databases

Cision Point Media/PR Directory This link opens in a new window
Formerly the print Bacon's directories for print media, TV, and radio, Cision provides contact and content notes for media figures around the world. Training & tutorials here. All use must comply with this privacy policy. Available only on Library PCs, See Reference Librarian for login.
Communication Source This link opens in a new window
Developed from a merger of Communication & Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts databases. Includes many unique sources. Offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from global titles pertaining to many fields of communication studies. Subject-specific thesaurus.
International Index to the Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
All aspects of the performing arts from over 200 international periodicals. Includes some full text.
Project MUSE, Arts and Humanities Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 100 journals in classics, culture, education, film, performing arts, history, literature, religion, and theater.
SRDS Online This link opens in a new window
Advertising rates, circulation, and contact info for newspapers, magazines, TV and cable, radio, and online services. Also provides Claritas consumer demographics data by state, county and DMA - Boston data included. For definitions of advertising terms on digital platforms (like cost-per-click, cost-per-impression, etc.) see Glossary for Digital Media and Planning, standardized and published by Internet Advertising Bureau.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics portal providing current data, detailed analysis, and infographics a variety of topics and industries. Examples of coverage include agriculture, advertising (including adspend and ad reach), book and digital publishing, public relations, health, hospitality, consumer goods, and much more. Ex: Online Radio In The United States

Historical Radio Programs

Old-Time Radio
Collection of streaming "old-time" radio programs. Listen online for free at Archive.org. Ex: Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Jack Benny Show, Our Miss Brooks, X Minus One, and more.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
The Library of Congress and WGBH in Boston have embarked on a project to preserve for posterity the most significant public television and radio programs of the past 60 years.
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The AAPB website provides the general public with access to the AAPB Online Reading Room, where users can screen or listen to digitized materials that the AAPB has made available for research, educational and informational purposes. It also includes a database of the entire AAPB digitized collection, which currently includes 68,000 items (40,000 hours), and 2.5 million metadata recordings that describe items which have not yet been digitized.

Selected Books

SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society

5 volumes

The Network: the battle for the airwaves and the birth of the communications age

The Moth

In the tradition of book anthologies created from public radio programs such as StoryCorps and This I Believe, THE MOTH collects the best storytelling moments--most in print here for the very first time--straight from their archive of more than 3000 shows since the first Moth Evening in 1997.