Radio's Civic Ambition: American Broadcasting and Democracy in the 1930s

by David Goodman

The history of American radio broadcasting has often been written as a lament for lost possibilities, a tale of what might have been. One now familiar landmark in that account is the story of how American commercial broadcasters, in the passage of the 1934 Communications Act, won a great victory over reformers who wanted frequencies set aside for non-commercial use. It is generally agreed that the defeat of the radio reformers was decisive and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195394089
• ISBN13: 9780195394085
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"