Banning, WEAF-Commercial Broadcasting Pioneer,1946. w/dj. WEAF later became WNBC

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William Peck Banning, Commercial Broadcasting Pioneer.
The WEAF Experiment 1922-1926
.
With Dust Jacket.
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1946
(WEAF later became WNBC)
"Mr. Banning's book is of special interest to [those]... who
want
to know... how radio got to be what it is now... and to others who have a nostalgic fondness for the days when radio was a new magic and commercials were not jingled"
Here is another FIND from one of my over 500 boxes of books, ephemera and just stuff. It took 60+ years to accumulate these treasures, and each week, I retrieve a dozen or so boxes from my storage units and post some selected items on eBay.
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WEAF was founded by A.T.& T. in 1922. In 1926, it was sold to RCA (and became WNBC) because A.T.& T. concluded that radio broadcasting was a one-way service in the entertainment field, and therefore, not compatible with A.T. & T.'s principal business of furnishing two-way communication.
Banning was with A.T. & T. for 24 years. A first-hand account, he writes about and believed that WEAF's four-year experiment aided the development of radio broadcasting in three ways:
In science and technology, including broadcasting programs to Paris and Honolulu as early as 1915. Also, the establishment of network broadcasting.
Emphasizing a high standard of radio programs.
Determination of how radio broadcasting could support itself... by selling time on the air.
Read the Contents and the Author's Preface pages shown in photos 5 & 6 for more about the book.
The book itself is near-new, 308 pages with 29 illustrations, clean with no inscriptions or markings. Green cloth with gold lettered titles. The dust jacket  is in good condition, spine and rear a bit faded, and a few small tears at the top and bottom of the folds. Some small spots on the cover. Included is a 4 1/2 page chronology of WEAF and a 14-page index.
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Truly a book for the inquisitive radio broadcast historian.
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I'll be posting these classic radio history books over the next several days. DISCOUNT
DEAL: Win any two of these = 10% discount. Win any three or more = 20% discount. Shipping combined.
Archer, Gleason L. - History of Radio to 1926 (1938)
Archer, Gleason L. - Big Business and Radio (1939)
Barnouw, Erik - A Tower in Babel, A History of Broadcasting in the United States to 1933 (1966)
Barnouw, Erik - The Golden Web, A History of Broadcasting in the United States 1933 - 1953 (1968)
Barnouw, Erik - The Image Empire, A History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953 (1970)
Harlow, Alvin F. - Old Wires and New Waves (1936)
Banning, William Peck - Commercial Broadcasting Pioneer, The WEAF Experiment, 1922-1926 (WEAF became WNBC in 1946) (1946)
Fagen, M. D. - A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System, The Early Years (1875-1925) (1975)
Fagen, M. D. - A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System, National Service in War and Peace (1925-1975) (1978)
These books are a MUST in any radio collector's library!
These books are selected from from my book collection and will be great additions to your collection.
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