Joe Garner (author)
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Joe Garner is an author and former radio executive who resides in Los Angeles
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Garner spent twenty years working in the radio industry, with over ten of those years employed as an executive with the Westwood One
Westwood One
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 radio network. He contributed to the creation and production of numerous audiobooks for Simon & Schuster
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. He presides over an entertainment production company, Garner Creative Concepts, in Los Angeles.

In recent years, Garner has become an author of historical books, both traditional and multimedia. He wrote the book We Interrupt This Broadcast
We Interrupt This Broadcast
We Interrupt This Broadcast is the title of a non-fiction book from 1998. It was written by Joe Garner; the foreword was written by the veteran American newscaster Walter Cronkite. In addition to many descriptions and pictures of notable news events from the 20th century, compact discs containing...

in 1998, a work that combines words, pictures and audio by including compact disc
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s containing news clips from notable historical events from radio and television. Subsequent editions of this book have been released, most recently in 2008. Other similar works penned by Garner include Stay Tuned: Television's Unforgettable Moments (2002) and Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies (2004), both of which contain a DVD
DVD
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 accompanying the book itself.

Garner has also compiled related works that detail historical moments in sports, such as And the Crowd Goes Wild (2002), And the Fans Roared (2002) and Echoes of Notre Dame Football
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(2001).

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