Television and Radio Announcing (Classic Reprint)

Television and Radio Announcing (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
1332216838
ISBN-13
9781332216833
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
2015-08-05
Author
Art Gilmore

Description

Excerpt from Television and Radio Announcing Art Gilmore began his radio career as a singer on an independent radio station in Tacoma, Washington. Later, while enrolled as a student at Washington State College, he won a place as a staff announcer on the school's state-owned, college-operated radio station. Although training for a business career at the time, he changed the course of his plans to accept an offer from a Seattle radio station for the job of staff announcer. His early experience in Seattle included the great scope of duties that announcers on small stations nearly always receive. In 1936 Hollywood looked opportune, and Gilmore went to work at CBS soon after his arrival in the film city. He was with that organization for five years during which time he worked with such stars as Bob Hope, Betty Grable, Claudette Colbert, Barbara Stanwyck, Madeline Carroll, Gladys Swarthout, and many others. His staff duties included announcing and narrating the Shakespeare Cycle series; special events, which included broadcasting from Boulder (Hoover) Dam before its completion, Marine planes, a Navy cruiser, a B-17 bomber while still in the experimental stages, the first take-off of the B-19; and many other fascinating broadcasts. In 1941 Gilmore resigned from the staff at CBS to free-lance. Later he went into the Navy where he served aboard a carrier until the war ended. Back again in civvies, he took up his duties where he left off including announcing and teaching radio announcing at the University of Southern California. Gilmore is married to the former Grace Weller of Tacoma; they have two daughters and reside in the San Fernando Valley a short distance from Hollywood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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