The opening decades from the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.S. film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and overall performance styles tailored to emerging systems of electric sound reproduction that would redefine prominent forms and encounters of well-known audio entertainment. Concentrating on broadcasting’s initial expansion during the 1920s, Producing Radio explores the types of innovative labor pursued for the medium in the time before the better-known network era, assessing their part in shaping radio’s identification and determining affinities with parallel procedures pursued for conversion-era film and phonography. Tracing coding forms used by early radio writers and programmers, creation techniques produced by studio room engineers, and functionality designs cultivated by on-air skill, it displays how radio employees negotiated a series of broader commercial and cultural stresses to establish guidelines for their moderate that reshaped popular types of music, episode, and open public oratory and laid the building blocks for a new era of electric sound entertainment.