Author: United States. Department of Commerce
Publisher:
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13:
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Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780809388035
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jim Cullen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0470673656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The second edition of Popular Culture in American History updates the text for a contemporary readership and explores academic developments in this area of study over the last decade. Fully revised second edition with over 50 percent new material Compact and classroom-friendly format Includes the best writing on popular culture from the 1970s onwards Essays examine pivotal moments, issues, and genres in American popular culture, from the ‘penny press’ to the Internet
Author: Marvin R. Bensman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-11-03
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0786462353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Radio Act of August 13, 1912, provided for the licensing of radio operators and transmitting stations for nearly 15 years until Congress passed the Radio Act of 1927. From 1921 to 1927, there were continual revisions and developments and these still serve as the basis for current broadcast regulation. This book chronicles that crucial six-year period using primary documents. The administrative structure of the Department of Commerce and the personnel involved in the regulation of broadcasting are detailed. The book is arranged chronologically in three sections: Broadcast Regulation and Policy from 1921 to 1925; Congestion and the Beginning of Regulatory Breakdown in 1924 and 1925; and Regulatory Breakdown and the Passage of the Act of 1927. There is also discussion of the Department of Commerce divisions and their involvement until they were absorbed by the Federal Communication Commission. A bibliography and an index conclude the work.
Author: Hugh R. Slotten
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2003-04-30
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0801872987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From AM radio to color 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 Radio and Television Regulation, 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 color 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 maneuvered 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.
Author: Hugh Richard Slotten
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0252034473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A detailed study of American public radio's early history
Author: Robert Britt Horwitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0195054458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Horwitz here examines the history of telecommunications to build a compelling new theory of regulation, showing how anti-regulation rhetoric has often had unintended and unwanted effects on American industry.
Author: Steven Waldman
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 1437987265
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