[Qcwa] Fwd: PBS EMPIRE OF THE AIR:

[Gary Harrison]

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>FROM: Gene Nailon  K5DLE
>8 Dec. 2002
>
>Hello Folks;
>
>EMPIRE OF THE AIR is airing Monday night on PBS at 8:00PM
>Central, 9 Dec. 2002.  Check your local listing.
>This is MUST SEE for anyone interested in radio.  2 hrs long.
>Don't let this one get away, it has not been on in a long
>time.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Gene
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>Empire of the Air . About the Film | PBS
>
>For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American
>consciousness as the first mass medium.  In Empire of the
>Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of
>three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility
>for this invention and its early success, and whose genius,
>friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways.  This
>is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman's flamboyant son,
>who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a
>brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and
>David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created
>the most powerful communications company on earth.
>
>Against the backdrop of radio's Golden Age, Empire of the
>Air relates the history of radio through archival photographs,
>newsreels of the period and interviews with well-known
>radio personalities.
>
>NARRATOR
>Jason Robards
>
>ORIGINAL BROADCAST DATE
>January 29, 1992
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73,
Gary Harrison, K0BC
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