History of international broadcasting /
Vol. 1 : The following topics are dealt with: radio instrument; foreign policy; information broadcasting; radio telephony; and wartime broadcasting.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/93171088-t.html Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/93171088-d.html |
Table of Contents:
- The triode and radio telephony
- Origins of entertainment broadcasting
- Technological revolution
- Commercial broadcasting
- A social tool: birth of the BBC
- Propaganda: the cradle years, 1927-1938
- Radio Luxembourg: super power comes to Europe
- International broadcasting from 1938 to the early 1960s
- British censorship and propaganda, 1939-1945
- German broadcasting under the Nazis
- US wartime broadcasting
- Japanese wartime broadcasting
- Treason by radio
- Woofferton SW station
- The Cold War
- The Voice of America
- Satellite communications and global broadcasting
- Developments since 1960
- The decade of audibility: 1980-1990
- Technology of the high-power transmitter
- Broadcasting from the Federal Republic of Germany
- Scandinavian broadcasting
- LW and MW international broadcasting
- Jamming on the short waves
- 'Speaking peace unto nations': BBC World Service
- Subversion, propaganda broadcasting and the CIA
- Second in the world: the USSR
- Renewed expansion at the Voice of America
- Commercial giants: French broadcasting
- Super power in the Arab world
- Religious broadcasting and propaganda
- Transmitter sales during the 1980s
- The future of international AM broadcasting
- Appendix I: Television, the Gulf War and the future of propaganda
- Appendix II: Sales of high-power transmitters since 1991
- Appendix III: Low-profile transmitters.
- v. 2. International broadcasting in the HF spectrum : past and present
- An analysis of SW sales 1950-1997
- SW listening audiences and broadcasting output
- Projecting foreign policy, propaganda, beliefs and objectives
- Structure of US international broadcasting
- The BBC World Service
- Deutsche Welle : The voice of Germany
- Radio France International
- Voice of America
- Radio Canada International
- Swiss Radio International
- Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
- The former Soviet Union
- The Balkan region
- RFE/RL comes out of the cold
- The restructuring of US government international broadcasting
- The Arab-Islamic world
- Libya, Egypt, Kuwait and Iran
- China and SE Asia
- Radio Australia
- US religious/commercial private broadcasters
- The broadcast transmitter industry
- Company profiles
- Steerable 500kW rated curtain antenna arrays
- Profile of the tube manufacturing industry
- The future is digital
- The future for international broadcasting in the HF spectrum
- Appendix I: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Appendix II: SW reference list for the major transmitter manufacturers.