| Description |
volumes <1-2 > : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
IEE history of technology series ; 19 & v 23 |
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IEE history of technology series ; 19, <23 > |
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History of technology series ; 19, <23 >
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History of technology series ; 19 & v 23
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| Contents |
The triode and radio telephony -- Origins of entertainment broadcasting -- Technological revolution -- Commercial broadcasting -- A social tool: birth of the BBC -- Propaganda: the cradle years, 1927-1938 -- Radio Luxembourg: super power comes to Europe -- International broadcasting from 1938 to the early 1960s -- British censorship and propaganda, 1939-1945 -- German broadcasting under the Nazis -- US wartime broadcasting -- Japanese wartime broadcasting -- Treason by radio -- Woofferton SW station -- The Cold War -- The Voice of America -- Satellite communications and global broadcasting -- Developments since 1960 -- The decade of audibility: 1980-1990 -- Technology of the high-power transmitter -- Broadcasting from the Federal Republic of Germany -- Scandinavian broadcasting -- LW and MW international broadcasting -- Jamming on the short waves -- 'Speaking peace unto nations': BBC World Service -- Subversion, propaganda broadcasting and the CIA -- Second in the world: the USSR -- Renewed expansion at the Voice of America -- Commercial giants: French broadcasting -- Super power in the Arab world -- Religious broadcasting and propaganda -- Transmitter sales during the 1980s -- The future of international AM broadcasting -- Appendix I: Television, the Gulf War and the future of propaganda -- Appendix II: Sales of high-power transmitters since 1991 -- Appendix III: Low-profile transmitters |
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v. 2. International broadcasting in the HF spectrum : past and present -- An analysis of SW sales 1950-1997 -- SW listening audiences and broadcasting output -- Projecting foreign policy, propaganda, beliefs and objectives -- Structure of US international broadcasting -- The BBC World Service -- Deutsche Welle : The voice of Germany -- Radio France International -- Voice of America -- Radio Canada International -- Swiss Radio International -- Radio Nederland Wereldomroep -- The former Soviet Union -- The Balkan region -- RFE/RL comes out of the cold -- The restructuring of US government international broadcasting -- The Arab-Islamic world -- Libya, Egypt, Kuwait and Iran -- China and SE Asia -- Radio Australia -- US religious/commercial private broadcasters -- The broadcast transmitter industry -- Company profiles -- Steerable 500kW rated curtain antenna arrays -- Profile of the tube manufacturing industry -- The future is digital -- The future for international braodcasting in the HF spectrum -- Appendix I: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty -- Appendix II: SW reference list for the major transmitter manufacturers |
| Analysis |
Radio History |
| Notes |
Vol. 1 not numbered |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Issuing Body |
Vol. 2 published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers in association with the Science Museum |
| Subject |
Broadcasting -- History.
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International broadcasting -- History.
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International broadcasting.
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Radio -- History.
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| Author |
Institution of Electrical Engineers.
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| LC no. |
93171088 |
| ISBN |
0852969201 (vol. 2) |
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0863412815 |
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