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Transmitting the past : historical and cultural perspectives on broadcasting / edited by J. Emmett Winn and Susan L. Brinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.Description: viii, 252 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0817314539 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0817351752 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 384.54/0973 22
Contents:
From Marconi to Cop Rock : an introduction to broadcasting history / Susan L. Brinson -- Radio Mars : the transformation of Marconi's popular image, 1919-1922 / Michael Brown -- Davis Amendment and the federal Radio Act of 1927 : evaluating external pressures in policy making / Fritz Messere -- Wrestling with corporate identity : defining television programming strategy at NBC, 1945-1950 / Chad Dell -- Importance of colorization of motion pictures and syndicated television programs to broadcasting, 1985-1990 / Douglas Ferguson -- WAPI : entertainment and sports broadcasting at an educational radio station in the 1920s / Samuel J. Brumbeloe and J. Emmett Winn -- Femmes boff program toppers : women break into prime time, 1943-1948 / Michele Hilmes -- Space and the speed of sound : mobile media, 1950s broadcasting, and suburbia / Matthew A. Killmeier -- Cop Rock reconsidered : formula, fragments, failure, and foreshadowing in genre evolution / George Plasketes -- Sex, society, and double standards in Cheers / Heather Hundley.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-243) and index.

From Marconi to Cop Rock : an introduction to broadcasting history / Susan L. Brinson -- Radio Mars : the transformation of Marconi's popular image, 1919-1922 / Michael Brown -- Davis Amendment and the federal Radio Act of 1927 : evaluating external pressures in policy making / Fritz Messere -- Wrestling with corporate identity : defining television programming strategy at NBC, 1945-1950 / Chad Dell -- Importance of colorization of motion pictures and syndicated television programs to broadcasting, 1985-1990 / Douglas Ferguson -- WAPI : entertainment and sports broadcasting at an educational radio station in the 1920s / Samuel J. Brumbeloe and J. Emmett Winn -- Femmes boff program toppers : women break into prime time, 1943-1948 / Michele Hilmes -- Space and the speed of sound : mobile media, 1950s broadcasting, and suburbia / Matthew A. Killmeier -- Cop Rock reconsidered : formula, fragments, failure, and foreshadowing in genre evolution / George Plasketes -- Sex, society, and double standards in Cheers / Heather Hundley.

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