| Description |
xiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Reaching from the Tech Wreck -- The end of the beginning -- Turning on the Wireless -- Broadcasting babies -- Something special -- Getting Digital -- The Information Age -- Inventing digital technology -- Choices -- What to do with digital technology? -- Policy choices in the United States and United Kingdom -- Australia's choices: the 1998 decisions -- More choices: the 2000 decisions -- Broadcasting's Uncertain Future -- Change and resistance -- Switching on -- Turning off the television |
| Summary |
Explores the constant shifts in the technologies, business models and social uses of TV and radio, and explains the aspects of broadcast media which have attracted so much government policy attention, as well as what might happen to them in future |
| Analysis |
Broadcasting policy |
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Digital broadcasting |
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Australia overseas comparisons |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [283]-312 |
| Subject |
Radio broadcasting -- Australia.
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Television broadcasting -- Australia.
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Digital television -- Australia.
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| LC no. |
2003427286 |
| ISBN |
0868405000 |
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