B. BBC General History

AUSTRALIAN CONTENT ON PAY TV: INVESTIGATION (REPORT TO THE MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS) by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (Canberra: Australian Broadcasting Authority, 1997—A$10.00, paper, ISBN 0–642–27036–8, 219 pp.)

RESEARCH IN COMMUNICATION ECONOMICS IN AUSTRALIA: BULLETIN 3 by the Bureau of Transport and Communication Economics (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996—free on request, paper, ISSN 1036–0344, 130 pp.)

YOUTH, CRIME AND THE MEDIA edited by Judith Bessant and Richard Hill (Hobart, Tasmania: National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, 1997—A$35.00, ISBN 1–875236–38–4, 234 pp.)

THE BUSINESS OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING by John Colette and Meredith Quinn (St. Leonard's, Queensland: Allen &; Unwin, 1997—A$35.00, ISBN 0–6422–7093–7, 244 pp.)

THE MEDIA IN AUSTRALIA: INDUSTRIES, TEXTS, AUDIENCES edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner (St. Leonards, NSW: Allen &; Unwin, 1997 [2nd ed.]—A$35.00, paper, ISBN 1–86448–273–7, 490 pp., tables, charts, references, index)

THE MEDIA'S AUSTRALIA edited by Hilary Ericksen (Melbourne: The Australia Centre of the University of Melbourne, 1996—A$15.00, ISBN 0–7325–0824‐X, 119 pp.)

ETHICS IN JOURNALISM: REPORT OF THE ETHICS REVIEW COMMITTEE, MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT AND ARTS ALLIANCE (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997—A$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–52284814–1, 170 pp.)

THE WIRED NATION CONTINENT: THE COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION AND FEDERATING AUSTRALIA by K. T. Livingston (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996—A$55.00, ISBN 0–19–553633–9, 218 pp.)

YOUTH AND MUSIC IN AUSTRALIA: A REVIEW by Juliet London and Jenny Hearder (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Authority, Australia Council, and the Australian Record Industry Association “Australian Broadcasting Authority Monograph, No. 8,”; 1997—no price given, ISBN 0–642–27042–2, 88 pp.)

REVIVING THE FOURTH ESTATE: DEMOCRACY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE MEDIA by Julianne Schultz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press “Reshaping Australian Institutions,”; 1998—$64.95/24.95, ISBN 0–521–62042–2 hard, 0–521–62970–5 paper, 304 pp., tables, appendix, references, index)

TELEVISION, AIDS AND RISK: A CULTURAL STUDIES APPROACH TO HEALTH COMMUNICATION by John Tulloch and Deborah Lupton (St. Leonards, Queensland: Allen &; Unwin “Australian Cultural Studies,”; 1997— A$29.95, ISBN 1–8644–8224–9, 236 pp.)

TALKING BACK KIT by Young Media Australia and the Federal Bureau of Consumer Affairs (Young Media Australia, 69 Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide SA 5000—A$49.00 for full kit, no ISBN provided)     

Foreign Systems of Communication

Gunnel Rikardsson's The Middle East Conflict in the Swedish Press: A Content Analysis of Three Daily Newspapers 1948-1973 (Stockholm: Esselte Studium, 1978—price not given, paper)

Ron Sanders' Broadcasting in Guyana (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978-13.95 or$9.50, paper)

Charlotte Brunsdon and David Morley's Everyday Television: 'Nationwide' (94 pp.)

Revue Francaise de Communication (CEEPP 38, rue de Bassano, 75008 Paris, France—various rates from different regions: about $38.00 to the USA/quarterly)

A Comparison of Commercial Television in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Japan and Australia (Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 153 Walker St., North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia—apparently free on request, paper with spiral binding)

Dean T. Jamison and Emile G. McAnany's Radio for Education and Development (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1978—$15.95/7.95)     

Commonwealth Communications

George Boyce, James Curran, and Pauline Wingate, eds. Newspaper History from the 17th Century to the Present Day (London: Constable Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1978—$20.00/10.95)

Frank W. Peers' The Public Eye: Television and the Politics of Canadian Broadcasting, 1952-1968 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979—price not given)

K. Watson, et al. "A Financial Analysis of the Private Radio Broadcasting Sector in Canada and the United States" (Ottawa: Department of Communications, Social Policy and Programs Branch, 1978—no price given, paper)

Outcomes from the Telecom 2000 Report (Australian Government Publishing Service, P.O. Box 94, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600 Australia—price not given, paper)

Australian Broadcasting Commission: 46th Annual Report (1977-78) (ABC, 145-153 Elizabeth St., Sydney NSW 2001, Australia—apparently free on request, paper)

Media Centre Papers series (Centre for the Study of Educational Communication and Media, School of Education, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia—about A$2.50 each plus postage, paper)     

Foreign Systems

Burton Paulu, Television and Radio in the United Kingdom (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981---$39.50)

Annual Review of BBC Audience Research Findings, both Numbers 5 (1977/78) and 6 (1978/79) (BBC Broadcasting Research, The Langham, Portalnd Place, London WIA IAA---L1.50 and £5.00 respectively, paper)

Elias Hedinsson, TV, Family and Society: The Social Origins and Effects of Adolescents' TV Use (Almqvist & Wiksell International, Gamla Brogatan 26, P.O. Box 62-5-101, 20 Stockholm, Sweden---125 Swedish kroner)

Nordicom Review of Nordic Mass Communication. Research (Nordic Documentation Center for Mass Communication Research, Department of Political Science, Yniversity of Goteborg, Storgaten 13, S-411 24 Goteborg, Sweden---no price or frequency of issue given)

Copyright Reporter (GPO Box 3793, Sydney 2001---A$90 in Australia/A$120 by air mail outside of Australia for 12 monthly issues)

Media Information Australia (P.O. Box 305, North Ryde, NSW 2113---A$18 per year to overseas readers)

Fixing the News: Critical Perspectives on the Australian Media by Keith and Elizabeth Windschuttle, eds. (Sydney: Cassell Australia, 1981---A$9.95, 321 pp.)

Australia into the 80s by Phillip Bell and Kathe Boeringer, eds.; and Media in Crisis by Kathe Boeringer, et al, eds. (Communication, Technology and Control Foundation, P.O. Box 217, Broadway 2007---A$8.00 and A$5.00 , paper)

The Last New Movie: The Australian Film Revival (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1981-- 4377773, 337 pp.)

Les Langues Modernes, Vol. LXXIV, Nos. 5-6 for 1980 (Association des professeurs de langues vivantes de l'enseignement public, 19 rue de la Glacire, 75013 Paris---price not given, paper)     

British and Australian media

CURRENT STATE OF RADIO AND TELEVISION PLANNING by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (Canberra: the authority, 1992—price not given, five volumes, ISBN 0–642–18559–1 for the set)

BROADCASTING IN AUSTRALIA: FOURTH EDITION (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 1992—A$34.95, ISSN 1034–8689, 200 pp.)

AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL YEARBOOK 1990–1 (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 1992—A$80.00, ISSN 1033–9874, 346 pp.)

OZ CONTENT VOLUME 4: AN INQUIRY INTO AUSTRALIAN CONTENT ON COMMERCIAL TELEVISION (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 1992—A$19.95 (or A$59.95 for the full set), ISBN 0–642–16127–5, 312 pp.)

GET THE PICTURE: ESSENTIAL DATA ON AUSTRALIAN FILM, TELEVISION AND VIDEO (Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 1992—price not given, ISBN 0–642–17475‐X, 219 pp.)

THE CHALLENGE OF MULTICULTURALISM: GLOBAL CHANGES AND AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCES (University of Wollongong Office of Multicultural Affairs and Centre for Multicultural Studies, Working Papers on Multiculturalism No. 19,1992—A$20.00, paper, ISSN 1035–8129, 104 pp.)

AUSTRALIAN FILM INDEX: A GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN FEATURE FILMS SINCE 1900 edited by Sandra Hall (Port Melbourne: Thorpe, 1992—A$45.00, ISBN 1–875589–12–0, 258 pp.)

A STATION ON TRACE: 3CCC—THE FIRST TEN YEARS by Phillip Edmonds (Goldfields Community Radio Cooperative, Station St., Harcourt, Victoria 3453—A$15.00, ISBN 0–646–08062–8, 105 pp)

PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES AND SERVICE INDUSTRIES OPPORTUNITIES FOR AUSTRALIA IN DIGITAL VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS by the Service Industries Research Program (Canberra: Australian Coalition of Service Industries and the Department of Industry, Technology & Commerce, 1992—no price or ISBN given, 112 pp.)

ART & CYBERCULTURE edited by Ross Harley (Media Information Australia No. 69, August 1993, ISSN 0312–9616, 85 pp.)

GETTING THE MESSAGE: NEWS, TRUTH AND POWER edited by Gohn Eldridge (New York: Routledge, 1993—$59.95/ 22.50, ISBN 0–415–07983–7 cloth, 0–415–07984–5, paper, 358 pp.)

TELEVISION PRODUCERS by Jeremy Tunstall (London and New York: Routledge, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–415–09471–2 hard; 0–415–09472–0 paper, 235 pp.)

SOUND & VISION: THE MUSIC VIDEO READER edited by Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin and Lawrence Grossberg ((New York: Routledge, 1993—$49.95/16.95, ISBN 0–415–09430–5 cloth, 0–415–09431–3 paper, 215 pp.)

CITIZEN TELEVISION: A LOCAL DIMENSION TO PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING edited by David Rushton (London: John Libbey, 1993—$50.00, ISBN 0–86196–433–0, ISSN 0969–9872 as part of “ILT Research Monograph” series, 256 pp.)     

4. FOREIGN/COMPARATIVE MEDIA SYSTEMS

James Duncan Jr.'s American Radio: Spring '77 Report (Gilmore Advertising, 200 Michigan Bldg., Kalamazoo, Mich. 49006—$37.00 with a university rate of $28.00, paper)

F. Earle Barcus' Commercial Children's Television on Weekends and Weekday Afternoons (Action for Children's Television, 46 Austin Street, Newtonville, Mass. 02160— $25.00, paper)

Elmo I. Ellis' Opportunities in Broadcasting (Skokie, Ill.: National Textbook Co., 1977—$5.50/3.95)     

Cable Communications

Cable Television Interconnection (1974, 40 pp., around $4.00, paper)

Educational Uses of Cable Television (1974, 105 pp. price not known, paper)

William G. Shepherd and Thomas G. Gies' Regulation in Further Perspective: The Little Engine that Might (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1974—$13.50)

Districting: Report of the Advisory Committee on Cable Communications (Metropolitan Council, 300 Metro Square Bldg., 7th and Robert, St., Paul, Minn. 55101—price not given, paper)     

British and Australian Media

Graham Cleverley's The Fleet Street Disaster: British National Newspapers as a Case Study in Mismanagement (London: Constable [Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications] , 1976—4.50 [$12.95])

Recent Books on Mass Media with British Imprints, January 1975-September 1976 (41 pp.)

Current British Research on Mass Media and Mass Communication: Register of Ongoing and Recently Completed Research (74 pp.)

Television and Radio 1977 (Independent Broadcasting Authority, 70 Brompton Road, London SW3 I EY, England–L1.40, or about $2.50, paper)

Davis, Anthony. Television: The First Forty Years (159 pp.)

Fairley, Peter. Television: Behind the Screen (160 pp.)

Davis, Anthony. Television: Here is the News (144 pp.)

Ian K. MacKay, Broadcasting in Papua New Guinea (Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press [ISBS Inc., P.O. Box 555, Forest Grove, Ore. 971161, 1976—$22.50 in the U.S.)     

Cable and Telecommunications

William A. Lucas and Robert K. Yin's Serving Local Needs with Telecommunications (Santa Monica, Calif: Rand Corporation Report R-1345-MF, November 1973—$3.00, paper).

Fred B. Wood's The Potential for Congressional Use of Emergent Telecommunications: An Exploratory Assessment (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology, May 1974—apparently free on request)

Walter S. Baer, Michael Botein, Leland L. Johnson, Carl Pilnick, Monroe E. Price, and Robert K. Yin's Cable Television: Franchising Considerations (New York: Crane, Russak, & Co., 1974-=T13.50)

Charles G. Woodard's Cable Television: Acquisition and Operation of CATV Systems (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974—$27.50)

Planning Interconnection Systems: Options for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Washington, D.C.: Cable Television Information Center, 2100 M St. N.W., 1974-47.50, paper)

Cablelines (Cable Communications Resource Center, 1900 L St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036—monthly/free on request)     

Radio and Television

Ralph M. Jennings and Pamela Richard's How to Protect Your Rights in Television and Radio (Office of Communication, United Church of Christ, 289 Park Ave. South, New York 10010—price not given, paper)

Ted C. Smythe and George A. Mastroianni's Issues in Broadcasting: Radio, Television, and Cable (Palo Alto, Calif.: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1975—price not given but around $7.00 we learned from editors, paper)

James D. Secrest's Electronic Industries Association: The First 50 Years (Washington: EIA, 1974—price not given)

Ann M. Velia's KOB: Goddard's Magic Mast, Fifty Years of Pioneer Broadcasting (Las Cruces, N.M.: New Mexico State University Press, 1972—$6.95)

Harold Niven's Broadcast Education 1975: 14th Report (Washington: National Association of Broadcasters, 1975—$5.00, paper)

Broadcast Programming and Production (bimonthly/$7.00 per year, with first three issues free on request)

Joel L. Efrein, Cablecasting Production Handbook (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1975—$12.95)

NCTA is Over the Cable (Washington: National Cable Television Association, 1975—free on request, paper)

Community Antenna Television Journal (4209 N.W. 23rd St., Suite 106, Oklahoma City 73107)     

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)     

Instructional/Educational Media

Public Telecommunications Review (bi-monthly at $12.50 per year in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, $17.00 Elsewhere) and Volume I:1 appeared in August 1973

S. Young Lee and Ronald J. Pedone's Summary Statistics of Public Television Licensees Fiscal Year 1972 (Washington: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1973—no price listed, paperback)

Frederick Williams, Geraldine Van Wart and Monty Stanford's Carrascolendas: National Evaluation of a Spanish/English Educational Television Series (Austin, Texas: School of Communication, Center for Communication Research of the University of Texas, June 1973—$6.00, paper)

Children's Television Workshop offers its 1973 Annual Report (1 Lincoln Plaza, N.Y. 10023) which discusses developments in Sesame Street, Electric Company     

Broadcasting and Telecommunications

G.W.A. Dummer's Electronic Inventions: 1745-1976 (Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, 1976—£5.50 or $10.00)

Carl Dreher's Sarnoff: An American Success (New York: Quadrangle/ New York Times Book Co., 1977—$12.50)

George W. Bartlett, ed. NAB Engineering Handbook (Washington: National Association of Broadcasters, 1975—$45.00; $30.00 to NAB and BEA members)

Richard Veith's Talk-Back TV: Two-Way Cable Television (Blue Ridge Summit. Pa.: TAB Books, 1976—$9.95/5.95)

Dan Rather with Mickey Herskowitz' The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist (New York: Morros, 1977—$10.00)

F. Gifford's Tape: A Radio News Handbook (New York: Hastings House, 1977—$12.95/6.95)

F. Earle Barcus' Children's Television: An Analysis of Programming and Advertising (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1977—price not given, but likely around $18.00)

Douglas Davis and Allison Simmons' The New Television: A Public/Private Art (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977—$14.95)

The Videophile's Newsletter (Jim Lowe, 2014 South Magnolia Drive, Tallahassee, Fla. 32301—$7.50 for five issues)

Separations Procedures in the Telephone Industry: The Historical Origins of a Public Policy, by James W. Sichter (January 1977, Publication P-77-2, 146 pp. $23.40, paper)

The Communications Act Policy Toward Competition: The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Hamilton Loeb (March 1977, Working Paper W-77-1, 68 pp., $ 10.90)

Broadcasting: The Next Ten Years (New York: National Broadcasting Co., Department of Corporate Planning, 1977—apparently free on request, paper)

NFLCP Newsletter (P.O. Box 119, Cambridge, Mass. 02142—$7.50 annually, bimonthly; $15.00 to organizations)

Gary Gerani and Paul H. Schulman's Fantastic Television (New York: Harmony Books/Crown Publishers, 1977—$12.95/5.95)     

British commonwealth

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF OPERA edited by Jeremy Tambling (1994—$28.00, paper, ISBN 0–86196–466–7, 310 pp.)

RADIO & AUDIENCE ATTITUDES by Andrea Millwood Hargrave (1994—$20.00, paper, ISBN 0–86196–481–0, ISSN 0960–3999, 104 pp.)

DOING BUSINESS WITH OFTEL: A GUIDE FOR SUPPLIERS AND LARGE USERS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES TO HOW THE REGULATORY PROCESS WORKS AND HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OF IT (no date but 1994—£10.00, paper, 60 pp.)

THE UK TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: MARKET INFORMATION (February 1995—£10.00, paper, 31 pp.)

A FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE COMPETITION: A CONSULTATIVE DOCUMENT ON THE FUTURE OF INTERCONNECTION AND RELATED ISSUES (December 1994—no price given, paper, 71 pp.)

ANNUAL REPORT 1994 (1995—£14.10, paper, 150 pp.)

IDENTIFICATION, GENDER AND GENRE IN FILM: THE CASE OF SHAME by Stephen Crofts (Melbourne: Australian Film Institute, 1993).

SITES OF DIFFERENCE: CINEMATIC REPRESENTATIONS OF ABORIGINALITY AND GENDER by Karen Jennings (Melbourne: Australian Film Institute, 1993)

THE GOLDEN AGE OF AUSTRALIAN RADIO DRAMA, 1923–1960 by Richard Lane (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994—A$49.95, ISBN 0–552–84556–8, 397 pp.)     

Cable and Educational Media

Mary Louise Hollowell, ed, The Cable/Broadband Communications Book, 1977-1978 (Washington: Communications Press [1346 Connecticut Ave. N.W., 20036], 1977—$16.25 including postage, paper)

1976 NCTA Cable Services Directory (National Cable Television Association, 918 Sixteenth St. NW, Washington D.C. 20006—$4.00, paper)

Regulatinzfable Television Subscriber Rates: A Guide for Local Officials (Cable Television Information Center, Yrban Institute, 2100 M St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20037—$17.50 including postage, paper)

Alan Hancock Planning for Educational Mass Media (London and New York: Longman, 1977—$20.00)

Kenyon C. Rosenberg and John S. Doskey Media Equipment: A Guide and Dictionary (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1976—$11.50)