Radio & Television Industry

Provides an analytical overview of contemporary issues of the public accountability of broadcasting, as exemplified in the area of television and radio news and current affairs and documentary. This volume of collected essays is a parallel text to the book, "Sex, Lies and Democracy"...

With contributions from key scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume examines the crisis facing public broadcasting in the US today by analyzing the institution's development, its present-day operations, and its prospects for the future...

Incorporating an oral history approach, this history of radio covers the impact of the arrival of television, the rise of transistor radios, the popularity of rock n' roll, FM stereo stations, underground radio of the sixties, talk radio, public radio, and how technology will affect its future...

This text explores the industry of low-power television (LPTV) in America. It covers what LPTV is and how it got started, who the broadcasters are and their viewers, LPTV's significance in contemporary society and culture, and the challenges it faces in the late 1990s and the millennium...

This text explores the industry of low-power television (LPTV) in America. It covers what LPTV is and how it got started, who the broadcasters are and their viewers, LPTV's significance in contemporary society and culture, and the challenges it faces in the late 1990s and the millennium...