Author : Ralph Engelman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 1996-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803954077
Overview of public radio and television in the United States
Author : W. Lance Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108843050
This book shows how disinformation spread by partisan organizations and media platforms undermines institutional legitimacy on which authoritative information depends.
Author : Michael P. McCauley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1315290677
As federal funding for public broadcasting wanes and support from corporations and an elite group of viewers and listeners rises, public broadcasting's role as vox populi has come under threat. With contributions from key scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume examines the crisis facing public broadcasting today by analyzing the institution's development, its presentday operations, and its prospects for the future. Covering everything from globalization and the rise of the Internet, to key issues such as race and class, to specific subjects such as advertising, public access, and grassroots radio, Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest provides a fresh and original look at a vital component of our mass media.
Author : Laurie Oullette
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231529317
How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you," just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, most TV viewers bypass the redemptive "oasis of the wasteland" represented by PBS and turn to the sitcoms, soap operas, music videos, game shows, weekly dramas, and popular news programs produced by the culture industries. Viewers Like You? traces the history of public broadcasting in the United States, questions its priorities, and argues that public TV's tendency to reject popular culture has undermined its capacity to serve the people it claims to represent. Drawing from archival research and cultural theory, the book shows that public television's perception of what the public needs is constrained by unquestioned cultural assumptions rooted in the politics of class, gender, and race.
Author : Michael P. McCauley
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2005-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231509952
The people who shaped America's public broadcasting system thought it should be "a civilized voice in a civilized community"—a clear alternative to commercial broadcasting. This book tells the story of how NPR has tried to embody this idea. Michael P. McCauley describes NPR's evolution from virtual obscurity in the early 1970s, when it was riddled with difficulties—political battles, unseasoned leadership, funding problems—to a first-rate broadcast organization. The book draws on a wealth of primary evidence, including fifty-seven interviews with people who have been central to the NPR story, and it places the network within the historical context of the wider U.S. radio industry. Since the late 1970s, NPR has worked hard to understand the characteristics of its audience. Because of this, its content is now targeted toward its most loyal listeners—highly educated baby-boomers, for the most part—who help support their local stations through pledges and fund drives.
Author : Hugh Richard Slotten
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Broadcasting
ISBN : 0252034473
A detailed study of American public radio's early history
Author : Lawrence Wilson Lichty
Publisher : New York : Hastings House Publishers
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Jack W. Mitchell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 031301793X
Public radio stands as a valued national institution, one whose fans and listeners actively support it with their time and their money. In this new history of this important aspect of American culture, author Jack W. Mitchell looks at the dreams that inspired those who created it, the all-too- human realities that grew out of those dreams, and the criticism they incurred from both sides of the political spectrum. As National Public Radio's very first employee, and the first producer of its legendary All Things Considered, Mitchell tells the story of public radio from the point of view of an insider, a participant, and a thoughtful observer. He traces its origins in the progressive movement of the 20th century, and analyzes the people, institutions, ideas, political forces, and economic realities that helped it evolve into what we know as public radio today. NPR and its local affiliates have earned their reputation for thoughtful commentary and excellent journalism, and their work is especially notable in light of the unique struggles they have faced over the decades. This comprehensive overview of their mission will fascinate listeners whose enjoyment and support of public radio has made it possible, and made it great.
Author : Barbara Dianne Savage
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807848043
Tells how Blacks used radio
Author : James Day
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520309960
This spirited history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, provides a vivid and often amusing behind-the-screens history. Day tells how a program producer, desperate to locate a family willing to live with television cameras for seven months, borrowed a dime—and a suggestion—from a blind date and telephoned the Louds of Santa Barbara. The result was the mesmerizing twelve-hour documentary An American Family. Day relates how Big Bird and his friends were created to spice up Sesame Street when test runs showed a flagging interest in the program's "live-action" segments. And he describes how Frieda Hennock, the first woman appointed to the FCC, overpowered the resistance of her male colleagues to lay the foundation for public television. Day identifies the particular forces that have shaped public television and produced a Byzantine bureaucracy kept on a leash by an untrusting Congress, with a fragmented leadership that lacks a clearly defined mission in today's multimedia environment. Day calls for a bold rethinking of public television's mission, advocating a system that is adequately funded, independent of government, and capable of countering commercial television's "lowest-common-denominator" approach with a full range of substantive programs, comedy as well as culture, entertainment as well as information. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
