Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Author Tom Lewis
Country United States
Language English
Subject Radio
Published September 1, 1991
Publisher HarperCollins
Media type Print
Pages 421
ISBN 978-0-060-18215-1 (Hardcover)
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
DVD release cover
Directed by Ken Burns
Produced by Ken Burns, Morgan Wesson, Tom Lewis [1]
Screenplay by Geoffrey Ward
Based on Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
by Tom Lewis
Narrated by Jason Robards
Edited by Paul Barnes
Production
company
Florentine Films, WETA-TV
Distributed by PBS
Release date
  • January 29, 1992 (1992-01-29)
Running time
 100 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio is a non-fiction book by Tom Lewis, a history of radio in the United States, published by HarperCollins in 1991. [2] The book was adapted into both a 1992 documentary film by Ken Burns and a 1992 radio drama written and directed by David Ossman. [3] The source of the title is from a quote by Lee DeForest.

Documentary

Ken Burns' documentary first aired on PBS on January 29, 1992, narrated by actor Jason Robards.[4] The film focused primarily on the three pioneers of radio in America—David Sarnoff, Lee DeForest and Edwin Armstrong. [5] The program interspersed audio and musical highlights of "old time" radio with the stories, achievements, failures, scams and bitter feuds between each of the main protagonists.[6] Among those featured is radio and television historian Erik Barnouw. [7]

Drama

Broadcast on public radio, the Ossman radio drama originated in 1992 from Washington's WETA. The cast included Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Bonnie Bedelia, David Ogden Stiers, Ed Asner, Harry Shearer, John Astin, John Randolph, Norman Corwin, Peter Bergman, Philip Proctor and René Auberjonois.

References

  1. ↑ Television Academy
  2. ↑ Amazon.com: Empire of the Air Book
  3. ↑ Amazon.com:Empire of the Air DVD
  4. ↑ "Empire of the Air: About the Film". PBS. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  5. ↑ AllMovie
  6. ↑ EW.com
  7. ↑ Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1992)-Full Credits-TCM.com


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