NPR : Recalling a Media Pioneer: NBC Radio's 'Monitor'

NPR : Recalling a Media Pioneer: NBC Radio's 'Monitor': "Sunday, June 12, 2005 � Author Dennis Hart notes the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of Monitor on NBC. Hart wrote Monitor, The Last Great Radio Show, the story of then-NBC President Pat Weaver's attempt to save his radio network. Hart claims Monitor started many of today's media formats, including talk radio."