Category: Radio

There’s a great scene in Woody Allen’s Radio Days in which the young Allen character’s Uncle Abe catches his wife Ceil listening doubtless not for the first time — to a radio show improbably called Ventriloquist of the Air. As she cackles and hoots, the obviously exasperated Abe bellows, “He’s a ven...

The burning question: What vision strikes terror into the hearts of political consultants? The apparent answer: An obvious byline. I refer, of course, to the recent declaratory ruling by the Federal Communications Commission requiring a readily readable sponsorship tag line-or “disclaimer”-on campai...

Introduction Since the 1952 Eisenhower campaign introduced to the world the political commercial, few major campaigns have seemingly centered around one single spot — and a radio spot at that. But such was the case in the 1978 U.S. Senate race in Illinois. That contest saw two-term incumbent Republi...