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Overview"From AM radio to colour television, broadcasting raised enormous practical and policy problems in the United States, especially in relation to the federal government's role in licensing and regulation. How did technological change, corporate interest and political pressures bring about the world that station owners work within today (and that tuned-in consumers make profitable)? In this text, Hugh R. Slotten examines the choices that confronted federal agencies - first the Department of Commerce, then the Federal Radio Commission in 1927, and seven years later the Federal Communications Commission - and shows the impact of their decisions on developing technologies. Slotten analyzes the policy debates that emerged when the public implications of AM and FM radio and black-and-white and colour television first became apparent. His discussion of the early years of radio examines powerful personalities - including navy secretary Josephus Daniels and commerce secretary Herbert Hoover - who manoeuvered for government control of ""the wireless"". He then considers fierce competition among companies such as Westinghouse, GE and RCA, which quickly grasped the commercial promise of radio and later of television and struggled for technological edge and market advantage. Analyzing the complex interplay of the factors forming public policy for radio and television broadcasting, and taking into account the ideological traditions that framed these controversies, Slotten sheds light on the rise of the regulatory state. In an epilogue he discusses his findings in terms of contemporary debates over high-resolution TV." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hugh R. Slotten (University of Otago)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780801864506ISBN 10: 080186450 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 14 December 2000 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents"Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Engineering Public Policy for Radio: Herbert Hoover, the Department of Commerce, and the Broadcast Boom, 1900–1927 Chapter 2. Radio Engineers, the Federal Radio Commission, and the Social Shaping of Broadcast Technology: ""Creating Radio Paradise,"" 1927–1934 Chapter 3. Competition for Standards: Television Broadcasting, Commercialization, and Technical Expertise, 1928–1941 Chapter 4. ""Rainbow in the Sky"": FM Radio, Technical Superiority, and Regulatory Decision Making, 1936–1948 Chapter 5. VHF and UHF: Establishing a Nationwide Television System, 1945–1960 Chapter 6. Competition for Color-Television Standards: Formulating Policy for Technological Innovation, 1946–1960 Epilogue Notes Note on Secondary Sources Index"Reviews<p> The depiction of the manifold tensions that exist between technocratic and nontechnocratic views concerning the function of public policy institutions infuse the book's narrative with a freshness and originality that make it a welcome and valuable addition to what has been an otherwise lackluster list of titles typically more intent on describing the rules and regulations that govern broadcast media than in examining their revealing and illuminating origins. -- Michael C. Keith, Historian <p>[ Radio and Television Regulation ] is a solidly grounded scholarship of the highest quality.--Jeremy Harris Lipschultz Journal of Radio Studies Author InformationHugh R. Slotten is a postdoctoral fellow in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. He is the author of Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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