Book Description
The book reviews developments in the following fields: international broadcasting; short-wave (SW) sales; foreign policy; broadcast transmitter industry; antenna arrays; and tube manufacturing industry
Author : James Wood
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Television broadcasting
ISBN :
The book reviews developments in the following fields: international broadcasting; short-wave (SW) sales; foreign policy; broadcast transmitter industry; antenna arrays; and tube manufacturing industry
Author : James Wood
Publisher : IET
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780852969205
Vol. 1 : The following topics are dealt with: radio instrument; foreign policy; information broadcasting; radio telephony; and wartime broadcasting.
Author : Jerome S. Berg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078645198X
Shortwave broadcasting originated in the 1920s, when stations used the new technology to increase their range in order to serve foreign audiences and reach parts of their own country not easily otherwise covered. The early days of shortwave radio were covered in On the Short Waves, 1923-1945: Broadcast Listening in the Pioneer Days of Radio, published by McFarland in 1999 (paperback 2007). Then, two companion volumes were published, picking up the story after World War II. They were Listening on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today (McFarland, 2008; paperback 2010), which focuses on the shortwave listening community, and the present Broadcasting title, about the stations themselves and their environment. The heart of the book is a detailed, year-by-year account of the shortwave bands in each year from 1945 to 2008. It reviews what American listeners were hearing on the international and domestic shortwave bands, describes the arrivals and departures of stations, and recounts important events. The book describes the several categories of broadcasters--international, domestic, private, religious, clandestine and pirate. It explains the impact of relay stations, frequency management, and jamming. It also addresses the considerable changes in shortwave broadcasting since the end of the Cold War. The book is richly illustrated and indexed, and features a bibliography and extensive notes.
Author : Erik Barnouw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 1968-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 019802004X
Tells how radio and television became an integral part of American life, of how a toy became an industry and a force in politics, business, education, religion, and international affairs.
Author : James Wood
Publisher : IET
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780863413025
Vol. 1 : The following topics are dealt with: radio instrument; foreign policy; information broadcasting; radio telephony; and wartime broadcasting.
Author : G.R.M. Garratt
Publisher : IET
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 1994-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0852968450
Radio was as much the culmination of the work of a series of scientists in the 19th Century, starting with Faraday, as it was an invention by Marconi. This book aims to illustrate the contributions made by these scientists and show how each was dependent upon the work and ideas of his predecessors; Faraday, Henry, Maxwell, Hughes, Fitzgerald, Hertz, Lodge and Marconi.
Author : Christopher H. Sterling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2848 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135456496
Produced in association with the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, the Encyclopedia of Radio includes more than 600 entries covering major countries and regions of the world as well as specific programs and people, networks and organizations, regulation and policies, audience research, and radio's technology. This encyclopedic work will be the first broadly conceived reference source on a medium that is now nearly eighty years old, with essays that provide essential information on the subject as well as comment on the significance of the particular person, organization, or topic being examined.
Author : R. W. Burns
Publisher : IET
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780863413278
Communications: An international history of the formative years traces the evolution of communications from 500 BC, when fire beacons were used for signalling, to the 1940s, when high definition television systems were developed for the entertainment, education and enlightenment of society. The book does not simply provide a chronicle of dates and events, nor is it a descriptive catalogue of devices and systems. Rather, it discusses the essential factors - technical, political, social, economic and general - that enabled the evolution of modern communications. The author has taken a contextual approach to show the influence of one discipline upon another, and the unfolding story has been widely illustrated with contemporary quotations, allowing the progress of communications to be seen from the perspective of the times and not from the standpoint of a later generation.
Author : Mark Frankland
Publisher : IET
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2002-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0852962037
In 1929, Stanley bought a small radio manufacturing company from its founder, W. G. Pye. By the time it crashed and burned in 1966, the Pye company had become an international empire employing 30,000 workers, and was associated with some of the most dramatic application of electronics in the period. Frankland, a journalist with a background in history, tells the story of the man and his company. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : K. G. Beauchamp
Publisher : IET
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0852967926
Beauchamp (1923-99, retired from the U. of Lancaster, UK) devotes the first half of the book to terrestrial telegraphy, from the beginnings of communication with mechanical signaling to the electrical system using Morse code, including a large chapter on the laying of submarine cables across the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. The second half, on aerial telegraphy, discusses its beginnings with Marconi and its use on board ships and aircraft in both world wars. Dozens of maps show routes of telegraph cable and figures depict old telegraph equipment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.