Category: Amazon
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Scillian, Devin
Annoounces retirement from WDIV after 30 years. Last newscast will be December 13, 2024.
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Walters, Barbara
ABC Network: ABC Evening News, 20/20, Special InterviewsNBC Network: The Today ShowWNBT (now WNBC): Writer-Producer References: The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters A “smart, juicy, deeply reported” (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules…
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The Today Show: Transforming Morning Television
In the early 1950s, when television networks did not broadcast regular programming before 11 a.m., radio and newspapers were the most popular and reliable ways for Americans to get their morning news.
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Alan-Lee, Jeff
WXYZ: Television Series “Jerry in The Circus” A Young Actor Prepares by Jeff Alan-Lee In A Young Actor Prepares, Jeff Alan-Lee masterfully delivers kids’ and teens’ acting classes presented as plays in script form. The classes are based on actual semesters at the Young Actor’s Studio in Los Angeles and provide step-by-step approaches to help…
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Fairchild, Dennis
Astrologer and guest of the Kelly & Company Show.
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From The Heart by Erik Smith
Erik Smith, celebrated anchorman for ABC, Channel 7, early-morning news in Detroit, Michigan presents us with a collection of stories about the exceptional Michigan people who dared to live their dreams. He has transformed his award winning television series “From The Heart” into a treasure of compelling, emotionally charged short stories. His experience and warm…
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Unbound: Stories of Transformation, Love, and Monsters
Emily Colin and Madeline Dyer with John Klekamp A dull AP English assignment interrupted by the resurrection of a 5,000-year-old mummy. A “boy meets boy meets time travel” tale. An ancient evil summoned from the Scottish moors. A sentient garden turned matchmaker. A troubled teen who rehabilitates monsters. A sinister society where love is punishable…
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Jay Berry’s Sports Odyssey and Beyond: From Turf To Television & The Black 14 Protest
Available from Amazon.com by Jerome (Jay) Berry From award-winning sports broadcaster Jerome Berry comes an insider account of the Black 14 incident and how he fought for success in a society designed to make him fail. In Jay Berry’s Sports Odyssey and Beyond, Berry tells the story of how he rose from humble beginnings in segregated…
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Detroit Television (Images of America)
Available from Amazon.com by Tim Kiska and Ed Golick It began atop the Penobscot Building on October 23, 1946, when WWDT shot a signal to the convention center, part of a “New Postwar Products Exposition.” WWJ-TV offered scheduled programming in June 1947, and WXYZ-TV and WJBK-TV jumped in a year later. The medium has influenced…
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The Lone Ranger: The Early Years, 1933 to 1937
Available on Amazon.com by Martin Gram and Terry Salomonson This is the book that was decades in the making. When The Lone Ranger premiered on the evening of January 31, 1933, no one involved with the creation of the program suspected that “Hi-Yo, Silver!” would become an expression that would enter America’s lexicon. For more…
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Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience: Manufacturing a Television Personality
By Francis Shore – Available from Amazon.com When Soupy Sales left Detroit in 1960 after seven years on WXYZ TV, he was the highest-paid local television personality and one of the most well-known and loved celebrities in town. His daytime television programs in the early morning and noontime had an enormous and devoted following. The…
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Scratching the Surface: Adventures in Storytelling (Painted Turtle) by Harvey Ovshinsky
Shttps://amzn.to/3hWvNQfcratching the Surface: Adventures in Storytelling is a deeply personal and intimate memoir told through the lens of Harvey Ovshinsky’s lifetime of adventures as an urban enthusiast. He was only seventeen when he started The Fifth Estate, one of the country’s oldest underground newspapers. Five years later, he became one of the country’s youngest news…
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Anchored: A Journalist’s Search for Truth
Mort Crim has reported on major conflicts around the world for more than four decades and was a major inspiration for Will Ferrell’s performance in the movie Anchorman. Crim’s memoir takes readers behind the camera to show what life was like when the local anchorman was as revered as the professional athlete, and just as…
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Jesus Makes Salsa by the Seashore: And Other Fresh-Approach Bible Studies
One of my most enjoyable and enlightening experiences was going to lunch with Troy Dungan. Not just any lunch, but the weekly Wednesday Bible study lunches where media folks from the Dallas Morning News and Troy’s WFAA-TV station would gather to hear Troy’s take on a Bible passage. His knowledge on the Scripture and his…
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Enough to Be Dangerous: One Agent’s Life in TV News and Rock & Roll by Mort Meisner
Mort Minces No Words As a child in racially turbulent Detroit, Mort Meisner witnessed an attack on a black boy as white parents shouted the n-word and threw rocks to protest bussing to integrate his elementary school in 1960. A short time later, seven-year-old Mort stood helpless and crying as white teens yelled slurs at…
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Scratching the Surface: Adventures in Storytelling by Harvey Ovshinsky
Scratching the Surface: Adventures in Storytelling is a deeply personal and intimate memoir told through the lens of Harvey Ovshinsky’s lifetime of adventures as an urban enthusiast. He was only seventeen when he started The Fifth Estate, one of the country’s oldest underground newspapers. Five years later, he become one of the county’s youngest news directors in…
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Every Reasonable Doubt by Pamela Samuels Young
When attorneys Vernetta Henderson and Neddy McClain are tapped to take on the biggest case of their careers, they are less than thrilled about working together. Their strained relationship, however, is the least of their problems. Their socialite client–charged with the brutal murder of her husband–is demanding an immediate dismissal of the case. But a…
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Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability
Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Douglas Arnold asks: do local newspapers provide the information citizens need in order to hold representatives accountable for their actions in office? In contrast with previous studies, which largely focused on the…
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Fifty to Forever by Hugh Downs
An encouraging source book for aging parents and their families explores eldercare options, including day care and home care, challenges the misconception of age and helplessness, and provides ways to anticipate future needs. Booklist, “Downs’ brief essays, almost sound bites, hit upon many of the most significant issues of aging, from caring for elderly parents…
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Daguerre’s American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840 – 1900) from the Wm. B. Becker Collection
by Wm B Becker The first photographic portraits were objects of wonder. From tentative beginnings in 1840, the practice of capturing a person’s “perfect image and identity” with a camera became an industry, an art form, and a means for Americans from all walks of life to send personal and often intimate messages about themselves…
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Edwin Hale Lincoln: Ephemeral Beauty: The Platinum Photographs
Editor: Wm. B Becker In this first book-length appraisal of his work, Edwin Hale Lincoln is revealed as a devoted chronicler of boats, oaks and orchids Affiliated with the American Arts and Crafts movement, American photographer Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848-1938) began his photographic career in Boston, specializing in interiors. In the 1880s he started documenting…
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How To Become A Broadcasting Star: Your Step By Step Guide
Being on air is not a career that begins with an online application and a written resume. It helps to have a blueprint to build any career. This book is the broadcasting blueprint. Whether you are interested in technology, business, entertainment, news or sports there is an opportunity for you in broadcasting. If you are…
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Live to the Network
Author: Jeffrey Diamond Spinning toward a devastating confrontation with his boss, the mercurial anchorman of The Weekly Reporter, Ethan Benson stumbles upon a story about the tabloid murders of three runaway girls that have dominated the headlines in New York City. At first, the assignment appears to be just another lurid crime story that Ethan…
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Prisoner of War: The Story of White Boy Rick and the War on Drugs by Vince Wade
Soon to be published both in Kindle and Paperback – eBook and Paperback available June 26, 2018 – The eBook can be PRE-ORDERED NOW The astonishing but true story of White Boy Rick Wershe is an example of why the War on Drugs has been a trillion-dollar policy failure for nearly half a century. The…
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Live to Tape
Author: Jeffrey L. Diamond Ethan Benson has no idea his life is about to change forever when he walks through the door of The Weekly Reporter where he’s starting a new job as a senior producer, charged with managing the show’s mercurial anchorman. As he settles in on his first day, he’s summoned by the…
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Extreme Makeover by Teresa Tomeo
Popular radio host Teresa Tomeo knows from experience that the self-image of American women is being distorted by pop culture. With its emphasis on youth, physical beauty, and sexuality, the secular media is encouraging women–and girls–to see themselves primarily as sex objects. A professional TV and radio journalist, Tomeo pulls together the latest research on…
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Winning by Jack Welch
Winning Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless focus on people, teamwork, and profits. Since Welch retired in…
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Cuddles Makes A New Friend by Tara Edwards
Written by WXYZ Reporter, Tara Edwards. Every child needs a cuddle buddy. Follow this exciting series of books that aims to help kids overcome obstacles.
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Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green
From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history. Based on dozens of interviews…
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Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle by Jeff Flake
In a bold act of conscience, Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. Dear Reader, I am a conservative. I…
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There Was A Time by George Burlbaugh
My involvement with television and television news began more than a half century ago, almost by accident. Out of High School, I installed tv antennas, went to Korea in communication intelligence and ended up a tv news director and network news producer. This is a look back at some of the things I remember best.
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Real Men Do Cry by Eric Hipple and Heidi Horsley
Real Men Do Cry, by former NFL quarterback Eric Hipple, is an incredible story of tragedy and triumph. After his 15-year-old son died of suicide, Eric fell into a debilitating downward spiral. Bankrupt and jailed for drunk driving, he found the strength to seek therapy for his own depression and was able to make an…
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The Lone Ranger by Gaylord Dubois/Fran Striker
This is the first book in The Lone Ranger series. In our experience, there is no statement of edition or printing on Grosset & Dunlap publications. It is, however, possible to eliminate obvious later printings by checking the list of other books published in the series. A later printing would probably list titles that were…
