106 records matched your query       

Author:

Stamm, Michael.

Title:

Sound business : newspapers, radio, and the politics of new media / Michael Stamm.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

viii, 256 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Radio broadcasting--History--United States--History--20th century.
Radio broadcasting--History--United States--History--20th century.
Newspaper publishing--United States--History--20th century.
Newspaper publishing--History--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: underwriting the ether: newspapers and the origins of American broadcasting -- 1. Power, politics, and the promise of new media: newspaper ownership of radio in the 1920s -- 2. New empires: media concentration in the 1930s -- 3. Reshaping the public sphere: the New Deal and media concentration -- 4. Reform liberalism and the media: the Federal Communications Commission's newspaper-radio investigation -- 5. Media corporations and the critical public: the struggle over ownership diversity in postwar broadcasting -- Conclusion: the persistence of print: newspapers and broadcasting in the age of television.

Series:

American business, politics, and society.

ISBN:

0812243110 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812243116 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)683247718

LCCN:

2010047579

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)