AV# 87777
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (CC)



Video Cassette - 1 hour, 55 minutes - Color - 1991



This Ken Burns production studies three men responsible for the success of broadcast radio: Lee de Forest, inventor of the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, who pioneered FM technology, and David Sarnoff, general manager of the Radio Corporation of Am erica - RCA. Narrated by Jason Robards, with commentary by Garrison Keillor, Red Barber, Norman Corwin and Erik Barnouw. Based on the book by Tom Lewis. Program begins 2 minutes into tape; closed captioned.


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