Broadcasting

Herbert H. Howard's "Multiple Broadcast Ownership: Regulatory History," Federal Communications Bar Journal 27:1:1-70 (1974)

James Ashe's Broadcast Announcer 3rd Class FCC Study Guide (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1974—$7.95/3.95)

Hank Bennett's The Complete Short Wave Listener's Handbook (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1974—$6.95, paper)

Ray Poindexter's Arkansas Airwaves (Write to the author, c/o Station KGMR-FM, Jacksonville, Arkansas—price not known)     

Broadcasting

CHANNELS OF POWER: THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION ON AMERICAN POLITICS by Austin Ranney (New York: Basic Books, 1983---$14.95)

TURNED-ON TV/TURNED-OFF VOTERS: POLICY OPTIONS FOR ELECTION PROJECTIONS by Percy Tannenbaum and Leslie Kostrich (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Books, 1983---$25.00)

NEWSWATCH: HOW TV DECIDES THE NEWS by Av Westin (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982---$6.95, hardcover also available)

BROADCAST REGULATION: SELECTED CASES AND DECISIONS by Marvin R. Bensman (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1983---$19.50/8.75)

MODULARIZATION AND PACKAGING OF PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAMS by John Carey et al. (Washington, D.C.: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Office of Policy Development and Planning, 1983---price not given, paper)

PRIME-TIME TELEVISION: A PICTORIAL HISTORY FROM MILTON BERLE TO “FALCON CREST” by Fred Goldstein and Stan Goldstein (New York: Crown 1983---$25.00)     

Broadcasting

EMPIRE: WILLIAM S. PALEY AND THE MAKING OF CBS by Lewis J. Paper (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987—$19.95)

INVENTING AMERICAN BROADCASTING: 1899-1922 by Susan J. Douglas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987—$29.50)

TELEVISION WESTERNS: MAJOR AND MINOR SERIES, 1946-1978 by Richard West (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1987—$19.95)

THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING by John Witherspoon and Roselle Kovitz (Current, 2311 18th St. NW, Washington, DC 20009—$7.95, paper)

two illustrated discount books on TV history

RADIOS—THE GOLDEN AGE by Phillip Collins (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987—$14.95, paper with a hardback available)

CHILDREN AND TELEVISION: A CHALLENGE FOR EDUCATION edited by Michael Manley-Casimir and Carmen Luke (New York: Praeger, 1987—$39.95)

PRIMETIME: NETWORK TELEVISION PROGRAMMING by Richard A. Blum and Richard D. Lindheim (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1987—$19.95, paper)

three recent television texts from Sage Publications     

Broadcasting

Jay Hoffer's Organization and Operation of Broadcast Stations (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., TAB Books, $12.95)

Neil Terrell's The Power Technique of Radio-TV Copywriting (same source, $9.95)

Lincoln Diamant's Television's Classic Commercials: The Golden Years, 1948-1958 (Hastings House, $14.50)

Schools and Cable Television (National Education Association, Division of Educational Technology—Sales Section, 1201 Sixteenth St., N.W, Washington D.C. 20036, $2.25)

Television: The Business Behind the Box (Harcourt, Brace Javonovich, $8.95)

Ron Lackmann's Remember Television (Putnam, $7.95)

Don R. Le Duc and Thomas A. McCain's The F.R.C. in Federal Court: A Guide to Original Source Decisions (University of Wisconsin Department of Communication Arts, free on request)

Hal Kanter's Snake in the Grass (Delacorte, $6.95)

The Video Cassette: Looking for a Home (Quantum Science Corporation, $275.00)     

Broadcasting

May Shiers' Bibliography of the History of Electronics (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972—$8.50)

R.F. Pocock and G.R.M. Garratt's The Origins of Maritime Radio: The Story of the Introduction of Wireless Telegraphy in the Royal Navy between 1896 and 1900 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972—about $2.50, paper)

Art Chipman's KMED: The First Half Century (KMED, P.O. Box 10, Medford, Oregon 97501 —$1.00, paper)

Anthony B. Neany Sr.'s Radio-TV Hypnosis: Mass Killers of Jobs and Gross National Product (Brooklyn: Pageant-Poseiden Ltd, 644 Pacific St., 1972—$5.95)

Marvin Kitman's The Marvin Kitman TV Show (New York: Outerbridge & Lazard, 1972—$5.95)     

Broadcasting

UNIVERSAL TELEVISION: THE STUDIO AND ITS PROGRAMS, 1950-1980, by Jeb H. Perry (1983, 499 pp.---$32.50)

LADIES OF THE EVENING: WOMEN CHARACTERS OF PRIME-TIME TELEVISION by Diana M. Meehan (1983, 202 pp.---$16.00)

TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES PROGRAMMING: A COMPREHENSIVE CHRONICLE, 1980-1982, by Larry James Gianakos (1983, 686 pp.---$45.00)

DUNCAN'S RADIO MARKET GUIDE by James H. Duncan, Jr. (Duncan Media Enterprises, P.O. Box 2966, Kalamazoo, MI 49003---$110, spiral bound)

MAKING IT IN RADIO by Dan Blume (Continental Media Company, 35 Forest Hills Lane, West Hartford, CT 06117---$9.95, paper)     

Broadcasting

Vernon Stone and Bruce Hinson's Television Newsfilm Techniques (New York: Hastings House, 1974—$4.95, paper edition only)

Polly Carpenter-Huffman, Richard C. Metter, and Robert K. Yin's Cable Television: Developing CommunityServices (New York: Crane, Russak, 1974—$12.75)     

Broadcasting

Robert K. Yin's The Workshop and the World: Toward an Assessment of the Children's Television Workshop (Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand Corp., 1973–$3.00, paper)

Thomas E. Patterson and Robert D. McClure's Political Advertising: Voter Reaction to Televised Political Commercials (Citizens' Research Foundation, 245 Nassau St., Princeton, N.J. 08540–$1.00, paper)

Lawrence W. Lichty and Malachi Topping (eds.) American Broadcasting: A Sourcebook in the History of Radio and Television (New York: Hastings Rouse, 1974–$19.50/11.50)

A. William Bluem, Television Quarterly from 1961 through 1968; Television in the Public Interest (1961); Documentary in American Television (1965); Television: The Creative Experience (1967); Religious Television Programs: A Study of Relevance (1969); The Movie Business: American Film Industry Practice (1972)

Herman Burstein's Questions and Answers About Tape Recording (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1974–$8 .95)     

Broadcasting

Kas Kalba's City Meets the Cable: A Case Study in Technoloqical Innovation and Community Decision-Making.

Anthony Piepe, Miles Emerson, and Judy Lannon's Television and the Working Class (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books/D.C. Heath, 1975—$14.50).

Lawrence W. Lichty's Broadcast program and Audience Analysis and its related Workbook (American Printing and Publishing Inc., 2909 Syene Road, Madison, Wisc. 53713— about $13.50, paper, two loose-leaf volumes without binders).

Robert L. Hilliard's Writing for Television and Radio (New York: Hastings House, 1976—$16.50 with a paperback text edition available for which no price was given).

Robert L. Hilliard and Hyman H. Field's Television and the Teacher: A Handbook for Classroom Use (New York: Hastings House, 1976—$5.95 paper).

Chuck Anderson's Video Power: Grassroots Television (New York: Praeger, 1975— $7.95).     

Broadcasting

Horace Newcomb's TV: The Most Popular Art (New York: Anchor Books, 1974---$2.50, paper)

J. Harold Ellens' Models of Religious Broadcasting (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1974---$3.45, paper)     

Broadcasting

SPECIAL EDITION: A GUIDE TO NETWORK TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY SERIES AND SPECIAL NEWS REPORTS, 1955–1979 by Daniel Einstein (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1987—$87.50)

CRYSTAL SET TO SATELLITE: THE STORY OF CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING—THE FIRST 80 YEARS (California Broadcasters Assn., 1127 11th St., Suite 730, Sacramento, CA 95814—$6.00, paper)     

Broadcasting

TALK RADIO AND THE AMERICAN DREAM by Murray B, Levin (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987—$22.00)

WHO SHOT THE SHERIFF? THE RISE AND FALL OF THE TELEVISION WESTERN by J. Fred MacDonald (New York: Praeger, 1987—$29.95)

LIVE TV: AN INSIDE LOOK AT DIRECTING AND PRODUCING by Tony Verna (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1987—$22.95)

TV CAREERS BEHIND THE SCREEN by Jane Blanksteen and Avi Odeni (New York: John Wiley, 1987—$12.95, paper)

THE BROADCASTER'S DICTIONARY by James R. McDonald (Windriver Books, Box 481, Broomfield, CT 80020—$20.00 incl. postage, paper)

Three recent publications by the National Association of Broadcasters (Publications Dept., 1771 N St. NW. Washington, DC 20036)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT: THE BROADCAST &; CABLE INDUSTRIES by Barry L. Sherman (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987—$29.95)

CHANNELS OF DISCOURSE: TELEVISION AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM edited by Robert C. Allen (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987—$25.00/7.95)

THE HOUR OF TELEVISION: CRITICAL APPROACHES by N.D. Batra (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. 1987—$29.50)     

Educational Broadcasting

Bernard Rubin's Media, Politics &;amp; Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977- $8.00/4.00)

Forrest P. Chisman's Attitude Psychology and the Study of Public Opinion (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977—$13.50)

Sidney Kraus, ed. The Great Debates: Kennedy vs. Nixon, 1960 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977—$17.50/5.95)

Jean Schwoebel, Newsroom Democracy: The Case for Independence of the Press (Monograph Series No. 2, Iowa Center for Communication Study, School of Journalism, Yniversity of Iowa, Iowa City 52242—$2.50, paper)

Rex Winsbury, New Technology and the Journalist (Thomson Foundation Editorial Study Centre, Thomson House, Cardiff, CF1 1WR, Great Britain-75p or about $1.25, paper)

Laura Longley Babb, ed. The Editorial Page (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1977 &;ndash;price not given, paper)

Bob Roberts, for telling us about Magazine Studies Quarterly (MSQ Ltd., Box 2054, Muncie, Indiana 47302—about $5.00 per year for four issues)

Morgan Harris and Patti Karp's How to Make News and Influence People (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1976—$7.95, with a paperback edition available, for which no price given)

Alice Payne Hackett and James Henry Burke's 80 Years of Best Sellers: 1895-1975 (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1977—$14.95)

Mort Walker's Backstage at the Strips (New York: A&;amp;W Publishers, Inc., 95 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016—$6.95, paper)

Peter Haining's Terror: A History of Horror Illustrations from Pulp Magazines (New York: A&;amp;W Publishers, 1977—$12.50/6.95)     

British Broadcasting

BBC Handbook (London: BBC Publications, 1975---$2.50 approximately, paper)

Home Office's Report of the Committee on Broadcasting Co (London: HMSO Cmnd. Paper 5774, 1974---about $3.00, paper)

IBA's Evidence to the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting (London: IBA, 1974---apparently no charge)

IBA Technical Review (London: IBA, 1972-date---no charge made for single copies of each number)

C.G. Hayter's Using Broadcasts in Schools: A Study and Evaluation (London: either BBC or IBA, 1974---about $2.50, paper)

Gwen Dunn's Television and the Pre-School Child (London: IBA, 1974---price, if any, not known)

Anthony Smith's The British Press Since The War (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1974---$15.00)     

Broadcasting Business

Martin Mayer's About Television (New York: Harper & Row, 1972 —$10.00)

Feedback: A Survival Primer (New York: The Network Project, 102 Earl Hall, Columbia University, 1972—donation requested, paper)     

Revisiting Transnational Broadcasting

This article introduces a collection of original papers and research project reports considering the history of the BBC foreign-language services prior to, and during, the Second World War. The communication between the British government and foreign publics by way of mass media constituted a fundamental, if often ignored, aspect of Britain's international relations. From the 1930s onwards, transnational broadcasting, that is, broadcasting across national borders, became a major element in the conduct of Britain's diplomacy, and the BBC was employed by the government to further its diplomatic, strategic and economic interests in times of rising international tension and conflict. A review of the literature on the BBC's foreign-language broadcasts sets the stage for the presentation of the articles that compose this special issue of Media History.     

Books on Broadcasting

W.J. Baker's A History of the Marconi Company (Methuen (London), about $12.00)

Tedd Thomey's The Glorious Decade (Ace #29375, 95c paper)

Curtis Mitchell's Cavaleade of Broadcasting (Fpllett, $9.55/4.55)     

History of Broadcasting

BBC TV PRESENTS A FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION by Nicholas Moss (London: BBC, 1986—about $8.00, paper)

THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION FROM EARLY DAYS TO THE PRESENT (same address as Burn's book on previous page—$50.00, Paper)

TELEVISION: THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS by Keith Geddes & Gordon Bussey (National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television, Prince's View, Bradford, West rorkshire BD5 0TR—also available at the Science Museum in London $3.00, paper)

HERTZ AND THE MAXWELL IANS by J.G. Q'Hara and W. Pricha (same publisher as Burns on previous page—$48.00)

THE EARLY DAYS OF RADIO BROADCASTING by George H. Douglas (McFariand Publishing, Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640—$25.95)

THE RADIO COLLECTOR'S DIRECTORY AND PRICE GUIDE by Robert E. Grinder and George H. Fathauer (Ironwood Publishing, P.O. Box 8464, Scottsdale, AZ 85252—$15.95, paper)

NIXON AND THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC TELEVISION by David M. Stone (New York: Garland Publishing, 1985—$35.00)

VOICES OF THE GAME: THE FIRST FULL-SCALE OVERVIEW OF BASEBALL BROADCASTING, 1921 TO THE PRESENT by Curt Smith (Diamond Communications, P.O. Box 88, South Bend, IN. 46624—$22.95)