SIGNING ON - The Birth of Radio in Canada by McNeil, Bill; Wolfe, Morris - 1982

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1982. 303 pp. Oversize softcover. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; initialled by a previous owner on the front endpaper; no other interior markings. Cover art by David Craig. Illustrated with drawings, advertisements and black and white photographs. The Chapters are: THE MARITIMES: Melvin Rowe; Oscar Hierlihy; Reverend Lester Bury; Joey Smallwood; Menjie Shulman; Walter Hyndman; Marianne Morrow; Hugh Trueman; Nathan Nathanson; Robbie Robertson; Major William Borrett; Hugh Mills; Jerry Redmond. ONTARIO - QUEBEC: B. H. Smith; Aurele Pelletier; Paul L'Anglais; Yves Bourassa; Harvey Dobbs; Harry Swabey; Bill Baker; Foster Hewitt; Jane Gray; G. Lovatt; Cy Strange; Tom Darling; Ramsay Lees; Campbell Ritchie; Hugh Bremner; Stuart Clark; Guy Lombardo; Doc Cruikshank; Harry Boyle; Bill Anderson. THE WEST: Tony Messenger; Eve Henderson; Bert Hooper; Andy McDermott; Bill Speers; Wilf Collier; Fred Usher; Art Crighton; R. H. Hahn; W. V. Chestnut; Sid Boyling; Walter Dales; G. R. A. Rice; T. J. Allard; Gord Williamson; Kay Parkin; Norman A. Botterill; Francis Martin; Earl Connor; Don Laws; E. Ross MacIntyre; Fred Bass; Gerry Quinney; Don Wilson; Laurie Irvine; Ernie Rose; Dick Batey; John Ansell. THE C.N.R. NETWORK - TOWARD PUBLIC BROADCASTING: J. T. Carlyle; Ernest Jackson; Herb Roberts; Vic George; Mackenzie King; Tyrone Guthrie. THE CRBC: Graham Spry; Ernie Bushnell; Fran McAuley; Colonel Steel; Nairn Mogridge; Harold Symes; Montrose Werry; Wally Slatter; Frank Willis; Mart Kenney; Frank Deaville; Charles Jennings. THE CBC: Bob Bowman; Art Holmes; Lorne Greene; Jack Brickenden; Orville Shugg; Harry Boyle; Dick Halhed; Andrew Allan; Jane Mallett; Bob Christie; George Waight; John Drainie; Gordon Keeble; Frank Willis; Steve Brodie; Alan McFee; Mary Grannan; Lour Snider; Wayne and Shuster; Max Ferguson; and Bill McNeil; followed by: The Coming of Television and an index.. First Printing - First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by David Craig;. 4to.