James Wood

History of International Broadcasting

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Produktbeschreibung

This book outlines the origin and growth of information (propaganda) broadcasting by radio - which came to prominence in World War II and the Cold War - and chronicles the technological and engineering achievements that enable long-range broadcasting.

Produktdetails

• History and Management of Tech
• Verlag: Institution of Engineering & Technology
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780863413025
• ISBN-10: 0863413021
• Artikelnr.: 23969325

Autorenporträt

Eur Ing James Wood is a consulting engineer and specialist freelance journalist, having contributed to all the major broadcasting journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Birth of a medium
Chapter 1: The triode and radio telephony
Chapter 2: Origins of entertainment broadcasting
Chapter 3: Technological revolution
Chapter 4: Commercial broadcasting
Chapter 5: A social tool: birth of the BBC
Chapter 6: Propaganda: the cradle years, 1927-1938
Chapter 7: Radio Luxembourg: super power comes to Europe
Part 2: A weapon of war
Chapter 8: International broadcasting from 1938 to the early 1960s
Chapter 9: British censorship and propaganda, 1939-1945
Chapter 10: German broadcasting under the Nazis
Chapter 11: US wartime broadcasting
Chapter 12: Japanese wartime broadcasting
Chapter 13: Treason by radio
Chapter 14: Woofferton SW station
Chapter 15: The Cold War
Chapter 16: The Voice of America
Chapter 17: Satellite communications and global broadcasting
Part 3: Radio as an instrument of foreign policy
Chapter 18: Developments since 1960
Chapter 19: The decade of audibility: 1980-1990
Chapter 20: Technology of the high-power transmitter
Chapter 21: Broadcasting from the Federal Republic of Germany
Chapter 22: Scandinavian broadcasting
Chapter 23: LW and MW international broadcasting
Chapter 24: Jamming on the short waves
Chapter 25: 'Speaking peace unto nations': BBC World Service
Chapter 26: Subversion, propaganda broadcasting and the CIA
Chapter 27: Second in the world: the USSR
Chapter 28: Renewed expansion at the Voice of America
Chapter 29: Commercial giants: French broadcasting
Chapter 30: Super power in the Arab world
Chapter 31: Religious broadcasting and propaganda
Chapter 32: Transmitter sales during the 1980s
Chapter 33: The future of international AM broadcasting
Appendix 1: Television, the Gulf War and the future of propaganda
Appendix 2: Sales of high-power transmitterssince 1991
Appendix 3: Low-profile transmitters