Jim Cox (radio)
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Jim Cox, a retired college professor living in Louisville, Kentucky, has written extensively on the history of radio programming.
His books include Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s--A Biographical Dictionary (2007), The Daytime Serials of Television, 1946–1960 (2006), Historical Dictionary of American Radio Soap Operas (2005), Music Radio (2005), Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons (2004), Frank and Anne Hummert’s Radio Factory (2003), Radio Crime Fighters (2002), Say Goodnight, Gracie: The Last Years of Network Radio (2002), The Great Radio Audience Participation Shows (2001) and The Great Radio Soap Operas (1999). These volumes were published by McFarland & Company (www.mcfarlandpub.com) or Scarecrow Press (www.scarecrowpress.com).
At the Friends of Old Time Radio Convention, vintage radio’s largest annual event, Cox was the recipient of the 2002 Ray Stanich Award, given annually for prolific research and writing on the subject of old time radio.
Cox contributes prolifically to the newsletters of vintage radio clubs and nostalgia periodicals. He is completing his 16th book. He volunteers weekly with charitable organizations, is an active churchman, husband, father and grandfather. Among his passions are travel, railroads, swimming, baseball, history and government.
