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)     

Publishing and Mass Communications

John P. Dessauer's Book Publishing: What it Is What it Does (New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1974—$11.95)

Charles A. Madison's Irving to Irving: Author-Publisher Relations 1800-1974 (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1974– $19.95).

The American Film Institute Guide to College Courses in Film and Television (Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, 1975—$6.95, paper)

Bert Cowlan and Dennis Foote's A Case Study of the ATS-6 Health Education and Telecommunications Projects (Washington: Office of Education and Human Resources, Bureau for Technical Assistance, Agency for International Development, 1975—no cost given, paper).

Charles S. Steinberg's The Creation of Consent: Public Relations in Practice (New York: Hastings House, 1975—$13.50/6.95).

Maxwell Sackheim's My First 65 Years in Advertising (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1975—$9.95/5.95).

Sherman Briscoe's Black Press Information Handbook: 1974-75 (National Newspaper Publishers Association, 770 National Press Building, Washington D.C. 20004—$5.00, paper)     

International

TELEVISION PROGRAMMING ACROSS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES: THE EBU AND OIRT EXPERIENCE by Ernest Eugster (Dedham, Mass.: Artech House, 1983---$50.00)

CULTURES IN COLLISION: THE INTERACTION OF CANADIAN AND U.S. TELEVISION BROADCAST POLICIES (New York: Praeger, 1984---price not given)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS IN ELECTRONICS (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1983---price not given, paper)

FINANCING OF UNITED STATES EXPORTS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT by Robin Day Glenn (International Law Institute, 1920 N St., N.W., Suite 430, Washington, DC 20036---price not given, paper)

UNISPACE '82: A CONTEXT FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND COMPETITION (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1983---price not given, paper)

MASS COMMUNICATION IN AFRICA by Graham Mytton (London: Edward Arnold, 1983---price not given, paper)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT (Geneva: International Telecommunications Union, 1983---price not given, paper)

TELECOM PACIFIC edited by Sayed A. Rahim and Dan J. Wedemeyer (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983---$25.00, paper)

PTC '84 PROCEEDINGS edited by Dan J. Wedemeyer and L.S. Harms (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984---price not given, paper)

Two recent papers from Unesco (available from Unipub, 345 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10010)

INTERGOVERNMENTAL COUNCIL OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATION (Fourth Session, September 1983, Final Report, about 50 pages---price not given)     

The background of executive order 12356

This explanation of the development of E.O. 12356 originally appeared as an appendix to Annual Report to the President FY 1982 (Washington, D.C., 1983) by the Information Security Oversight Office, U.S. General Services Administration, Washington, D.C. 20405.     

Journalism and Mass Media

1977 Newspaper Edition (the publication will appear quarterly—apparently covering a different medium each issue, 342 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017— available without charge to key personnel concerned with media decisions at agencies and clients, $18.00 per copy to others)

1977 City and Regional Magazine Directory (Conference Management Corp., 500 Summer St., Stamford, Ct. 06901—$19.95, paper)

Washington Journalism Review (WJR, 3122 M St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20007—$16.00 per year/12 issues, with single copies at $2.00)

Maurice Rickards' This is Ephemera: Collecting Printed Throwaways (Brattleboro, Vt.: Stephen Greene Press, 1977—$7.00/3.9)

Prakash Sethi's Advocacy Advertising and Large Corporations: Social Conflict, Big Business Image, the News Media, and Public Policy (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books [D.C. Heath] , 1977—$25.00)     

Technology

Thomas S. Snyder, General Editor, THE AIRFORCE COMMUNICATIONS COMMAND: PROVIDING THE REIGNS OF COMMAND, 1938-1981, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY (Scott Airforce Base, Illinois: AFCC Office of History, 1981---no price given, paper)

F.W. Lancaster, LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS IN AN AGE OF ELECTRONICS (Information Resources Press, 1700 North Moore Street, Arlington, VA 22209---$24.60)

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING: Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Communications Technology in Education and Training (Information Dynamics, Inc., 111 Claybrook Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20902---price not given)

Alternate Media Center (New York University School of the Arts, 725 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003)

Martin C.J. Elton, TELECONFERENCING: NEW MEDIA FOR BUSINESS MEETINGS (American Management Associations, 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020---$10.00, paper)

VIDEO DATA BOOK: THE ANNUAL COMPILATION OF KEY STATISTICS OF THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY (Television Digest, 1836 Jefferson Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036---$125.00, $95.00 to subscribers to TV Digest oublications, paper)

Herbert B. Michaelson, HOW TO WRITE AND PUBLISH ENGINEERING PAPERS AND REPORTS (ISI Press, 3501 Market Street, Yniveristy City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104---$17.95/$11.95)     

New Technologies

TELECONFERENCING AND BEYOND: COMMUNICATIONS IN THE OFFICE OF THE FUTURE, by Robert Johansen (New York: McGraw Hill - Data Communications. 1984—price not given

CABLE FOR INFORMATION DELIVERY: A GUIDE FOR LIBRARIANS, EDUCATORS AND CABLE PROFESSIONALS, edited by Brigitte L. Kenney (White Plains, New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 19847mdash;$34.50/ $27.50)

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SATELLITE TV, by Martin Clifford (Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania: Tab Books, 1984—$11.50 pape

FUTURE INFORMATION PROCESSING TECHNOLOG1 1983, edited by Peg Kay and Patricia Powell (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, August 1983- $6.50, paper),     

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)     

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)     

Technology

TECHNOLOGY (Social Issues Resources Inc P.O. Box 2507, Boca Raton, Fla. 33432---one three-ring notebook of articles from 1980-1981, $52.00)

INFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT ON AMERICAN EDUCATION (Washington, D.C., Office of Technology Assessment, Ynited States Congress, September l982---price not given, paper)

VIDEO GAMES TODAY: MANAGEMENT, MARKETING AND TECHNOLOGY (Phillips Publishing, Suite 1200 N, 7315 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD 20814---$147.00 per year, monthly)

TELECONFERENCING AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (Center for Interactive Programs, Old Radio Hall, 975 Observatory Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706---$25.00, paper)

Anthony T. Easton, THE HOME SATELLITE TV BOOK: HOW TO PUT THE WORLD IN YOUR BACK YARD (New York: Wideview Books, 1982---$10.95, paperback)

SATELLITE TV WEEK (Fortuna Publishing Co., P.O. Box 308, Fortuna, CA 95540---$48.00 per year, weekly)

Rhonda Presser, ed., THE 1982 SATELLITE DIRECTORY (Phillips Publishing, Inc., 7315 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD 20814 ---$95.00)

“Cable Television: The Monopoly Myth and Competitive Reality” (Shooshan and Jackson, Inc., 1850 K St., N.W., Suite 510, Washington, D.C. 20006---price not given, paper)

“Cable and Children: An ACT Handbook” (Action for Children's Television, 46 Austin St., Newtonville, MA 02160---free on request)     

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)     

Books of the Month: News in Washington

Stephen Hess, The Washington Reporters (Brookings Institution, 1775 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036—S17.95/6.95)

Joynt Kumar, Portraying the President: The White House and the News Media (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981—$26.50/9.95)     

Mass Media Production Guides

William Hawes' The Performer in Mass Media in Media Professions and in the Community (New York: Hastings House, 1978—$15.75/8.95)

Robert L. Hilliard, ed. Television Broadcasting: An Introduction (New York: Hastings House, 1978— $15.75/7.95)

Charles Bensinger's The Video Guide (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Video-Info Publications (P.O. Box 1507), 1977— $11.95, paper)

Mike Wolverton's And Now the News (Houston, Tex.: Gulf Publishing Co., 1977— $10.95)

The WAFL Book: A Guide to Film and Video in the Washington, D.C. Area (Washington Area Filmmakers League, P.O. Box 6475, Washington, D.C. 20009 —$5.45, including postage, paper)

David E. Fear's Technical Writing (New York: Random House, 1978—price not given, paper)     

Government-Related

American Statistics Index: A Comprehensive Guide and Index to the Statistical Publications of the U.S. Government (Congressional Information Service, 600 Montgomery Building, Washington, D.C. 20014, 1973 – $375, two volumes).

Omnibus Copyright Revision–Comparative Analysis of the Issues (Washington, D.C.: American Society for Information Science, 1140 Connecticut Ave. NW, 1973-448.00, or $38.40 to ASIS members).     

International

USIA: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE COMPUTER AGE by Allen C. Hansen (New York: Praeger, 1984--$29.95)

PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION: AN INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY edited by David H. Flaherty (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1984---$36.50)

1984 WORLD'S SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEMS by Herbert H. Schenck and Leo Waldrick for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1985---price not given, paper)

UFO WORLDWIDE FORUM ON THE PIRACY OF BROADCASTS AND OF THE PRINTED WORD (Ann Arbor, Mich: Unipub, 1984---price not given, paper)

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: AN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE edited by Georgette Wang and Wimal Dissanayake (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1984---$39.50)

WHEN TELEPHONES REACH THE VILLAGE; THE ROLE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT by Heather E. Hudson (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1984---$24.50)

WORLD DIRECTORY OF MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCHERS by Sylvester Dziki et al. (Bibliographic Section of IAMCR, Press Research Centre, Rynek Glowny 23, 31-008 Krakow, Poland---price not given)     

Foreign and International Media

G. Stuart Adam's Journalism, Communication and the Law (Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall of Canada Ltd., 1976---price not given, paper)

T.J. Allard's The C.A.B. Story: 1926- 1976, Private Broadcasting in Canada (Ottawa: Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 1976---apparently free on request, paper)

Comptroller General of the United States, Suggestions to Improve Management of Radio Free Europe' Radio Liberty (Washington: General Accounting Office, 1976---either free or $1.00 depending on your classification (see 7:150), paper)

Television and the February 1974 General Election by Trevor Pateman (1974, 78 pp., $2.60)

Television News by Richard Collins (1976, 56 pp., $2.60)

Benno Signitzer's Regulation of Direct Broadcasting from Satellites (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1976---$12.50)

Robert F. Amove (ed.) Educational Television: A Policy Critique and Guide for Developing Countries (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1976---$15.00)

B.D. Dhawan's Economics of Television in India (New Delhi: S. Cahnd & Co. Ltd., 1974--Rs 35, current conversion to dollars not known but about $7.00)

Broadcasting in Asia and the Pacific (Philadelphia: Temple University Press/Heinemann Educational Books, 1977--$25.00/and a yet to be announced lower paperback price)

Guided Press in Southeast Asia: National Development vs. Freedom of Expression (Buffalo: SUNY at Buffalo Council on International Studies, Special Studies Series, 1976---price not yet announced)

Cultural Pluralism in Malaysia (Dekalb, III.: Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Special Report No. 14, 1976--price not yet announced)     

French Media Books

ELECTRONIC MEDIA: A GUIDE TO TRENDS IN BROADCASTING AND NEWER TECHNOLOGIES, 1920-1983, by Christopher H. Sterling (New York: Praeger, 1984—$34.95/$17.95)

THE LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE SOURCEBOOK: A GUIDE TO ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, (Bethesda, Md.: Phillips Publishing, 1984—$127.00, paper)

TELEVISION COMEDY SERIES: AN EPISODE GUIDE TO 153 TV SITCOMS IN SYNDICATION, by Joel Eisner and David Krinsky (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., Inc., 1984—$49.95)

RELIGIOUS BROADCASTING 1920-1983; A SELECTIVELY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, by George H. Hill and Lenwood Davis (New York: Garland Publishing, 1984—$36.00)

FM ATLAS AND STATION DIRECTORY, by Bruce F. Elving (FM Atlas Publishing, Adolph, Minn. 55701—$7.50, paper)

COMPUTER CONTENTS, (Management Contents, 2265 Carlson Drive, Northbrook, Ill. 60062—$95.00/biweekly, or $4.00 per copy)

AMERICAN RADIO: SPRING 1984, by James H. Duncan, Jr. (Duncan Media Enterprises, Box 2966, Kalamazoo, MI 49002—$55.00, paper)

WORLD TABLES: THE THIRD EDITION, by the staff of the World Bank (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984—$50.00/$25.00 for Volume I, Economic Data; and $25.00/$12.50 for Volume II, Social Data)

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, edited by Donald R. Whitnah (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1984—$49.95)

ACRONYMS, INMALISMS, AND ABBREVIATIONS DICTIONARY, edited by Ellen Crowley and Helen Sheppard (Detroit: Gale Research, 1984—$145.00, two volumes)

STATISTICS FOR TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATION, AND FINANCE AND INSURANCE: DATA AVAILABILITY AND NEEDS, by Sol D. Helfand, et al. (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1984—price not given, paper)

TELECOURSE INVENTORY 1984 (Center for Learning and Telecommunications, One Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. 20036—$20.00, paper)     

Political Journalism

Hillier Krieghbaum's Pressures on the Press (New York: Crowell, 1972—$6.95)

John R. Coyne, Jr. The Impudent Snobs: Agnew vs. the Intellectual Establishment (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1972— 8.95)

James Keogh's President Nixon and the Press (New York: Funk & Wagnalls with distribution by Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1972—$6.95),

Leo Bogart's Silent Politics: Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion (New York: Wiley/Interscience, 1972—$9.95)

Ray Hiebert, Robert Jones, John Lorenz, and Ernest Lotito (eds.) The Political Image Mergants: Strategies in the New Politics (Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, 1971—$7.95/4.95)

Delmer D. Dunn's Financing Presidential Campaigns (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1972— $5.95/2.95)     

International Communication

COMMUNICATIONS IN A CHANGING WORLD (Washington, D.C.: The Media Institute, 1983---two volumes, paper, price not given)

THE ABC OF COPYRIGHT (Paris: Unesco/New York: Unipub, 1981---paper, price not given)

MILITARY PROPAGANDA: PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AND OPERATIONS by Ron D. McLaurin (New York: Praeger, 1982---price not given)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE YEAR 2000: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES edited by Indu B. Singh (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1983---$24.95)

THE EDUCATIONAL USE OF MASS MEDIA by Gloria Feliciano, et al. (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1981---$5.00, paper)

POWERS OF THE PRESS: TWELVE OF THE WORLD'S INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPERS by Martin Walker (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1983---price not given)

THE PHONOGRAM IN CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: REPORT ON A RESEARCH PROJECT UNDERTAKEN BY MEDICAULT, edited by K. Blaukopf (New York and Vienna: Springer-Verlag, 1982---$23.60, paper)