Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080186450X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Concise study of the government and technology" according to A Customer. Hugh Slotten, a postdoctoral fellow in History at Harvard, has explored the public debates surrounding the adoption of several broadcasting technologies, including AM and FM radio and black-and-white and color television in the U.S. Federal agencies most concerned with their regulation, beginning with the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 and continuing to the Federal Communications Commission of the 19Concise study of the government and technology Hugh Slotten, a postdoctoral fellow in History at Harvard, has explored the public debates surrounding the adoption of several broadcasting technologies, including AM and FM radio and black-and-white and color television in the U.S. Federal agencies most concerned with their regulation, beginning with the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 and continuing to the Federal Communications Commission of the 1930s to the 1960s. Slotten's book explores the complex relationships between government and industry, the impo. 0s to the 1960s. Slotten's book explores the complex relationships between government and industry, the impo
His discussion of the early years of radio examines powerful personalitiesincluding navy secretary Josephus Daniels and commerce secretary Herbert Hooverwho 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. 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. 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. Slotten examines the choices that confronted federal agenciesfirst the Department of Commerce, then the Federal Radio Commission in 1927, and seven years later the Federal Communications Commissionand 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. Analyzing the complex interplay of the factors forming public policy for radio and television broadcasting, and taking into
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.. Hugh R
broadcasting. (James Schwoch Business History Review)Slotten's work usefully augments the body of literature concerned with telecommunications and mass media law, policy, and regulation. It is both well researched and well written. White Technology and Culture)Slotten effectively uses published primary sources and unpublished archives to discuss the complex interactions between engineers and policy-makers in the United States. (William J. (Jason Loviglio Enterprise and Society)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 welc