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9XM - WHA Radio and the Wisconsin Idea (Paperback): Randall Davidson 9XM - WHA Radio and the Wisconsin Idea (Paperback)
Randall Davidson
R747 Discovery Miles 7 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the fascinating history of the innovative work of Wisconsin's educational radio stations, from the first broadcast by experimental station 9XM at the University of Wisconsin to the network of stations known today as Wisconsin Public Radio. Randall Davidson provides the first comprehensive history of the University of Wisconsin radio station, WHA; affiliated state-owned station, WLBL; and the post-World War II FM stations that formed the WPR network. Davidson describes how, with homemade equipment and ideas developed from scratch, 9XM became a tangible example of "the Wisconsin Idea," bringing the educational riches of the university to all the state's residents.

Good Night, Chet - A Biography of Chet Huntley (Paperback): Lyle Johnston Good Night, Chet - A Biography of Chet Huntley (Paperback)
Lyle Johnston
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If a judgment were ever rendered on all the multi-million words I have spoken into microphones, I hope something like this could be said: 'He [Huntley] had a great respect, almost an awe, of the medium in which he worked. He regarded it as a privilege, not a license.... Perhaps the best I might hope is that by some accident of voice tone or arrangement of words I did, on a few occasions, excite, exhort, annoy or provoke a few of my fellow human beings to think with their heads, not the viscera'"-Chet Huntley. This biography of NBC newsman Chet Huntley, who, along with David Brinkley, anchored NBC's "Huntley-Brinkley Report," covers his youth on a farm in Montana, his education and his graduation from the University of Washington, his development as a radio personality and news reporter for stations in Seattle, Spokane, Portland, and his work for CBS, ABC and NBC radio and television in Los Angeles from 1939 to 1955. It also details his move to New York and his work on the "Huntley-Brinkley Report" from 1956 to 1970, his retirement from the news business, his supervision of the development of the Big Sky Ski resort in Montana, and his death from cancer in 1974 at the age of 62.

Broadcasting Freedom - The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (Paperback, New edition): Arch Puddington Broadcasting Freedom - The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (Paperback, New edition)
Arch Puddington
R961 Discovery Miles 9 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

" Among America's most unusual and successful weapons during the Cold War were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. RFE-RL had its origins in a post-war America brimming with confidence and secure in its power. Unlike the Voice of America, which conveyed a distinctly American perspective on global events, RFE-RL served as surrogate home radio services and a vital alternative to the controlled, party-dominated domestic press in Eastern Europe. Over twenty stations featured programming tailored to individual countries. They reached millions of listeners ranging from industrial workers to dissident leaders such as Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel. Broadcasting Freedom draws on rare archival material and offers a penetrating insider history of the radios that helped change the face of Europe. Arch Puddington reveals new information about the connections between RFE-RL and the CIA, which provided covert funding for the stations during the critical start-up years in the early 1950s. He relates in detail the efforts of Soviet and Eastern Bloc officials to thwart the stations; their tactics ranged from jamming attempts, assassinations of radio journalists, the infiltration of spies onto the radios' staffs, and the bombing of the radios' headquarters. Puddington addresses the controversies that engulfed the stations throughout the Cold War, most notably RFE broadcasts during the Hungarian Revolution that were described as inflammatory and irresponsible. He shows how RFE prevented the Communist authorities from establishing a monopoly on the dissemination of information in Poland and describes the crucial roles played by the stations as the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union broke apart. Broadcasting Freedom is also a portrait of the Cold War in America. Puddington offers insights into the strategic thinking of the RFE-RL leadership and those in the highest circles of American government, including CIA directors, secretaries of state, and even presidents.

Al-jazeera - The Story Of The Network That Is Rattling Governments And Redefining Modern Journalism Updated With A New Prologue... Al-jazeera - The Story Of The Network That Is Rattling Governments And Redefining Modern Journalism Updated With A New Prologue And Epilogue (Paperback, Updated)
Adel Iskandar, Mohammed El-Nawawy
R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Offers a first look at the all-Arab news network and its controversial role in the Arab world. Al-Jazeera, the independent, all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, emerged as ambassador to the Arab world in the events following September 11, 2001. Arabic for the island, Al-Jazeera has scooped the western media conglomerates many times. With its exclusive access to Osama Bin Laden and members of the Taliban, its reputation was burnished quickly through its exposure on CNN. During the 2003 war in Iraq, Al-Jazeera seemed to be everywhere, reporting dramatic stories and images, even as it strived to maintain its independence as an international free press news network. Al-Jazeera sheds light on the background of the network: how it operates, the programs it broadcasts, its effects on Arab viewers, the reactions of the West and Arab states, the implications for the future of news broadcasting in the Middle East, and its struggle for a free press and public opinion in the Arab world.

Redeeming the Dial - Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America (Paperback, New edition): Tona J Hangen Redeeming the Dial - Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America (Paperback, New edition)
Tona J Hangen
R1,198 Discovery Miles 11 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Blending cultural, religious and media history, Tona Hangen offers a detailed look into the world of religious radio. She uses recordings, sermons, fan mail and other sources to tell the stories of the determined broadcasters and devoted listeners who, together, transformed American radio evangelism from an on-air novelty in the 1920s into a profitable and wide-reaching industry by the 1950s. Hangen traces the careers of three of the most successful Protestant radio evangelists - Paul Rader of Chicago, Aimee Semple McPherson of Los Angeles and Charles Fuller of Pasadena - and examines the strategies they used to bring their messages to listerners across the nation. Initially shut out of network radio and free airtime, both of which were available only to mainstream Protestant and Catholic groups, evangelical broadcasters gained access to the airwaves with paid-time programming. By the mid-20th century millions of Americans regularly tuned in to evangelical programming, making it one of the medium's most distinctive and durable genres. The voluntary contributions of these listeners in turn helped to bankroll religious radio's remarkable growth. Revealing the entwined development of evangelical religion and modern mass media, Hangen demonstrates that the history of one is incomplete without the history of the other; both are important to understanding American culture in the 20th century.

Emergency Broadcasting & 1930'S Am Radio (Paperback): Edward Miller Emergency Broadcasting & 1930'S Am Radio (Paperback)
Edward Miller
R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The voice we hear on the radio--the voice with no body attached--is a key element in the history of media in the twentieth century. Before television and the internet, there was radio; and much of what defined the makeup of these newer media was influenced by the way radio was broadcast to people and the way people listened to it. Emergency Broadcasting focuses on key moments in the history of early radio in order to come to an understanding of the role voice played in radio to describe national crises, a fictional invasion from outer space, and general entertainment. Taking the Hindenburg disaster, The War of the Worlds hoax, Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats, and the serial mystery The Shadow as his focal points, Edward Miller illustrates how the radio, for the first time, instantly communicated to a mass audience, and how that communication--where the voice counts more than the image--is still at work today in television and the World Wide Web. Theoretically sophisticated, yet grounded in historical detail, Emergency Broadcasting offers a unique examination of radio and at the same time develops a complex understanding of the media whose birth is owed to the innovations--and disembodied power--established by it. Author note: Edward D. Miller is Chair of the Department of Media Culture at The College of Staten Island/CUNY.

Federal Long-Range Spectrum Plan (Hardcover): Mathew B Lane Federal Long-Range Spectrum Plan (Hardcover)
Mathew B Lane
R988 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R166 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The United States is vitally dependent upon the use of the radio spectrum to carry out national policies and achieve national goals. Use of the spectrum is vital to the security and welfare of the Nation and to the conduct of its foreign affairs. This use exerts a powerful influence upon our everyday lives, in countless ways, annually contributing significantly to the Nation's growth and economy. The radio spectrum is a limited natural resource which is accessible to all nations. It is imperative that we develop and administer our use of this resource wisely so as to maintain a free democratic society and to stimulate the healthy growth of the Nation, while ensuring its availability to serve future requirements in the best interest of the Nation. Therefore, consistent with our international treaty obligations and with due regard for the rights of other nations, the national objectives for the use of the radio spectrum are to make effective, efficient, and prudent use of the spectrum in the best interest of the Nation, with care to conserve it for uses where other means of communication are not available or feasible. This revised NIA report details the policies and plans geared towards government oversight of the national radio spectrum, an asset we cannot afford to overlook.

British Television Drama - Past, Present and Future (Paperback): Jonathan Bignell, Stephen Lacey British Television Drama - Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
Jonathan Bignell, Stephen Lacey
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of essays by leading media professionals and academics, which debates the past, present and future of British television drama. Writers, producers and television executives reflect on the changing face of TV drama, and academics present case studies on critical approaches, general topics and specific programmes.

Mass Culture and the Defence of National Tradition - The BBC and American Broadcasting, 1922 to 1954 (Paperback): Valeria... Mass Culture and the Defence of National Tradition - The BBC and American Broadcasting, 1922 to 1954 (Paperback)
Valeria Camporesi
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stations of the Cross - Adorno and Christian Right Radio (Paperback): Paul Apostolidis Stations of the Cross - Adorno and Christian Right Radio (Paperback)
Paul Apostolidis
R1,104 Discovery Miles 11 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since the 1970s, American society has provided especially fertile ground for the growth of the Christian right and its influence on both political and cultural discourse. In "Stations of the Cross" political theorist Paul Apostolidis shows how a critical component of this movement's popular culture--evangelical conservative radio--interacts with the current U.S. political economy. By examining in particular James Dobson's enormously influential program, "Focus on the Family"--its messages, politics, and effects--Apostolidis reveals the complex nature of contemporary conservative religious culture.
Public ideology and institutional tendencies clash, the author argues, in the restructuring of the welfare state, the financing of the electoral system, and the backlash against women and minorities. These frictions are nowhere more apparent than on Christian right radio. Reinvigorating the intellectual tradition of the Frankfurt School, Apostolidis shows how ideas derived from early critical theory--in particular that of Theodor W. Adorno--can illuminate the political and social dynamics of this aspect of contemporary American culture. He uses and reworks Adorno's theories to interpret the nationally broadcast "Focus on the Family," revealing how the cultural discourse of the Christian right resonates with recent structural transformations in the American political economy. Apostolidis shows that the antidote to the Christian right's marriage of religious and market fundamentalism lies not in a reinvocation of liberal fundamentals, but rather depends on a patient cultivation of the affinities between religion's utopian impulses and radical, democratic challenges to the present political-economic order.
Mixing critical theory with detailed analysis, "Stations of the Cross" provides a needed contribution to sociopolitical studies of mass movements and will attract readers in sociology, political science, philosophy, and history.

Salant, CBS, And The Battle For The Soul Of Broadcast Journalism - The Memoirs Of Richard S. Salant (Paperback, Revised): Bill... Salant, CBS, And The Battle For The Soul Of Broadcast Journalism - The Memoirs Of Richard S. Salant (Paperback, Revised)
Bill Buzenberg, Susan Buzenberg
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism" tells the story of CBS News during its golden era. The late Richard S. Salant was president of CBS News for sixteen years throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He became widely recognized by journalists as the "patron saint of television news." During his tenure, Salant confronted issues of enormous importance - Vietnam, the civil rights movement, and Watergate - and launched the first thirty-minute E"vening News, CBS Morning News," and "60 Minutes," Along the way, he hired Mike Wallace, Roger Mudd, Dan Rather, and Diane Sawyer. This first-person account, compiled and edited by Susan and Bill Buzenberg during the years since Salant's death in 1993, is an important part of the history of broadcast journalism, an inside story of the politicians and journalists who shaped our recent history, and an eloquent alarm about the current erosion of broadcast journalism standards.

History of International Broadcasting, v. 2 (Hardcover): James Wood History of International Broadcasting, v. 2 (Hardcover)
James Wood
R2,420 R2,213 Discovery Miles 22 130 Save R207 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This continuation of the history of shortwave broadcasting takes up the story at the end of the Cold War, exploring the many developments in the context of an era of wide political change. Propaganda, religious and other areas of broadcasting are examined in different cultural settings.

Public Access Television - America's Electronic Soapbox (Paperback, New): Laura Linder Public Access Television - America's Electronic Soapbox (Paperback, New)
Laura Linder
R1,093 Discovery Miles 10 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As Laura Linder asserts, increased concentration of media ownership has resulted in the homogenization of public discourse. Packaged, commercialized messages have replaced the personalized and localized opinions necessary for the uninhibited marketplace of ideas envisioned in the First Amendment. Narrowcast outlets such as talk radio give vent to individual voices, but only to a limited, predefined audience. The media have led a social shift toward splintering and compartmentalization, away from pluralism and consensus.

Public access television provides an alternative to this trend, requiring active public participation in the process of developing community-based programming through the dominant medium of television. Today, more than 2,000 public access television centers exist in the United States, producing more than 10,000 hours of original, local programming every week. But public access television remains underutilized, even as deregulation and growing interest in other telecommunications delivery systems pose a potential threat to the long-term viability of public access television. In this comprehensive review of the background and development of public access television, Linder offers all the information needed to understand the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings as well as the nuts and bolts of public access television in the United States. Must reading for students and scholars involved with mass media in the United States and professionals in the television field.

Love, Light, and a Dream - Television's Past, Present, and Future (Paperback, New edition): James Roman Love, Light, and a Dream - Television's Past, Present, and Future (Paperback, New edition)
James Roman
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Love, Light, and a Dream is a timely and provocative look at the medium of television as one of the cultural vehicles carrying us toward the 21st century. It provides an up-to-the-minute review of developments and trends shaping the policy and regulatory issues that exert the strongest influence on the evolution of information technology. Topics covered in this study include the Federal Communications Commission and its role as a regulatory body, the relationship between cable services and telephone systems as information providers, television advertising campaigns and the structure of the agency business, public television and its struggle for financial independence, and the culture of television news and the creation of a journalistic mythology.

Legendary Pioneers of Black Radio (Paperback): Gilbert A. Williams Legendary Pioneers of Black Radio (Paperback)
Gilbert A. Williams
R1,126 Discovery Miles 11 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After World War II, when thousands of African Americans left farms, plantations, and a southern way of life to migrate north, African American disc jockeys helped them make the transition to the urban life by playing familiar music and giving them hints on how to function in northern cities. These disc jockeys became cultural heroes and had a major role in the development of American broadcasting. This collection of interviews documents the personalities of the pioneers of Black radio, as well as their personal struggles and successes. The interviewees also define their roles in the civil rights movement and relate how their efforts have had an impact on how African Americans are portrayed over the air.

On Television (Paperback, 4th edition): Stuart Hood, Thalia Tabary-Peterssen On Television (Paperback, 4th edition)
Stuart Hood, Thalia Tabary-Peterssen
R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1980, this compact introduction to television broadcasting as an industry offers jargon-free analysis of every many aspects of broadcasting.;Stuart Hood draws on his inside experience of the industry (and its politics) to present this work as an unashamed - but increasingly critical - defence of television as a legitimate public forum. Updated to include the momentous changes in broadcasting over recent decades, and coverage of specific broadcasting "events" such as the Gulf War, the 4th edition of this work provides a key text for those with an interest in studying television as a medium.

World Broadcasting - A Comparative View (Paperback, New): Alan Wells World Broadcasting - A Comparative View (Paperback, New)
Alan Wells
R1,944 Discovery Miles 19 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As mass communication is a major topic of interest in American colleges, there is also a growing interest in comparative mass media in other countries. This book is designed to put current practices in the United States in comparative perspective and thus shed new light on American media practices. It is designed as a resource for the growing number of courses dealing with international media, and a recommended supplement for basic mass communications courses that provide a global perspective.

Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat (Paperback): Red Barber, Robert W. Creamer Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat (Paperback)
Red Barber, Robert W. Creamer; Introduction by Bob Edwards
R558 R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For more than fifty years Red Barber was the voice of baseball. The game was broadcast sporadically until the late 1930s, when Barber burst into prominence by bringing it home to radio listeners, play by play. More than half a century later, he could still be heard, broadcasting over National Public Radio from his retirement home in Tallahassee. Announcing for the Brooklyn Dodgers and later for the New York Yankees, he became a legend long before his death in 1992. Red's story reveals the growth and changes in baseball over the years, the demands of sportscasting, and the difference between radio and television reporting. Here is Red giving major play-by-plays of his own life and career with characteristic wit and integrity.

Sound and Look Professional on TV and the Internet (Paperback): Michelle McCoy Sound and Look Professional on TV and the Internet (Paperback)
Michelle McCoy
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As we are thrust into an age of digital communication technologies, opportunities are becoming endless for people to perform in front of the cameras either on television or the Internet. Executives representing their companies or students aspiring to work in the broadcast field are often intimidated by the thought of going on camera. One of the reasons for these fears is that there are so few resources to aid in educating people about broadcast performing expectations.

Michelle McCoy and Dr. Ann Utterback have come to the rescue with their new book, Sound and Look Professional on the Television and the Internet. Whether you are a corporate executive or an aspiring reporter, this book will help you face the camera.

History of International Broadcasting, Volume 1 (Paperback, New edition): James Wood History of International Broadcasting, Volume 1 (Paperback, New edition)
James Wood
R1,624 R1,512 Discovery Miles 15 120 Save R112 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The history of radio broadcasting is traced from its earliest origins, through its role as a subversive tool in World War II to the cold war era, and finally to itspresent day use as an instrument of foreign policy used by over 160 countries. The effects on the cold war, in which propoganda broadcasting was the ultimate weapon, contributing in no small measure to the collapse of communism in the USSR, are analysed. The roles of Voice of America, the BBC World Service and others come under scrutiny, and the concluding chapters report on the explosive growth in international broadcasting now taking place in the aftermath of recent political events. The book is supplemented with up-to-date technical data and statistics on major expansions now under way or being planned in many countries, particularly the USA and the Arab states, some of the latter having a broadcasting capacity that dwarfs most western countries. The appeal of the book is by no means restricted to scientists and engineers and many will find much to stir their memories of international radio broadcastsin wartime and peacetime alike.

Still Life in Real Time - Theory After Television (Paperback, New): Richard Dienst Still Life in Real Time - Theory After Television (Paperback, New)
Richard Dienst
R982 Discovery Miles 9 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Television can be imagined in a number of ways: as a profuse flow of images, as a machine that produces new social relationships, as the last lingering gasp of Western metaphysical thinking, as a stuttering relay system of almost anonymous messages, as a fantastic construction of time. Richard Dienst engages each of these possibilities as he explores the challenge television has posed for contemporary theories of culture, technology, and media. Five theoretical projects provide Still Life in Real Time with its framework: the cultural studies tradition of Raymond Williams; Marxist political economy; Heideggerian existentialism; Derridean deconstruction; and a Deleuzian anatomy of images. Drawing lessons from television programs like Twin Peaks and Crime Story, television events like the Gulf War, and television personalities like Madonna, Dienst produces a remarkable range of insights on the character of the medium and on the theories that have been affected by it. From the earliest theorists who viewed television as a new metaphor for a global whole, a liberal technology empty of ideological or any other content, through those who saw it as a tool for consumption, making time a commodity, to those who sense television's threat to being and its intimate relation to power, Dienst exposes the rich pattern of television's influence on philosophy, and hence on the deepest levels of contemporary experience. A book of theory, Still Life in Real Time will compel the attention of all those with an interest in the nature of the ever present, ever shifting medium and its role in the thinking that marks our time.

Broadcasting in the Malay World - Radio, Television, and Video in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore (Paperback): Drew... Broadcasting in the Malay World - Radio, Television, and Video in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore (Paperback)
Drew O. McDaniel
R1,680 Discovery Miles 16 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Daytime Television Game Shows and the Celebration of Merchandising (Hardcover): Morris Holbrook Daytime Television Game Shows and the Celebration of Merchandising (Hardcover)
Morris Holbrook
R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A neglected genre that promises to shed light on the culture of consumption appears in the form of the daytime television game shows whose hegemonic message seems to convey and to justify a widespread obeisance to the mandate of materialism. A close analysis of the longest running game show, "The Price Is Right," suggests that all facets of this program combine to reinforce its central meaning as a ritualistic validation of consumption-oriented greed.

British Television - The formative years (Hardcover): Russell Burns British Television - The formative years (Hardcover)
Russell Burns
R3,921 R3,523 Discovery Miles 35 230 Save R398 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On 2 November 1936 the world's first high definition television station was inaugurated at Alexandra Palace. Two competing companies, Marconi-EMI Television Company Ltd and Baird Television Ltd, provided studio and transmitting equipment for the new service which operated, on an alternate basis, with the systems of the two companies. After a trial period the 405-line system of the Marconi-EMI company was adopted and the last transmission by the 240-line system of Baird Television Ltd was sent out on 30 January 1937. This book is concerned with the history of British television for home reception from 1922/23 to 1939, when the London Station closed down for the war years. Great care has been taken to ensure that an unbiased, accurate history has been written and the work is based predominantly on written primary source material. More than 900 references are given in the text, which is illustrated with many photographs and illustrations. An endeavour has been made to present a balanced history rather than a purely technical history. Thus the book considers the factors - technical, financial and general - which led to the establishment of the world's first, all-electronic, public, regular, high definition television broadcasting service.

The First Amendment Under Siege - The Politics of Broadcast Regulation (Hardcover): Richard Labunski The First Amendment Under Siege - The Politics of Broadcast Regulation (Hardcover)
Richard Labunski
R2,174 Discovery Miles 21 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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