Regulating the Future: Broadcasting Technology and Governmental Control

by W.A. Kelly Huff

This comprehensive study examines the case of AM stereo and subsequent technologies to demonstrate the FCC's evolution from stern to reluctant regulator. It also examines emerging technologies, such as multichannel television sound, digital audio broadcasting, and high definition television, and discusses their impact on the evolution of broadcast regulation. In the 1980s the tension between governmental control and the marketplace resulted in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313314683
• ISBN13: 9780313314681
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"