Sound Business : : Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media / / Michael Stamm.

American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years. Today digital media challenge the printed word. In the 1920s, broadcast radio was the threatening upstart. At the time, newspaper publishers of all sizes turned threat into opportunity by establishing their own stations...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:American Business, Politics, and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 9 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Underwriting the Ether: Newspapers and the Origins of American Broadcasting
  • Chapter 1. Power, Politics, and the Promise of New Media: Newspaper Ownership of Radio in the 1920s
  • Chapter 2. New Empires: Media Concentration in the 1930s
  • Chapter 3. Reshaping the Public Sphere: The New Deal and Media Concentration
  • Chapter 4. Reform Liberalism and the Media: The Federal Communications Commission's Newspaper-Radio Investigation
  • Chapter 5. Media Corporations and the Critical Public: The Struggle over Ownership Diversity in Postwar Broadcasting
  • Conclusion. The Persistence of Print: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Age of Television
  • Appendix. Newspaper Ownership of American Broadcasting Stations, 1923-1953
  • Archival Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Notes
  • Index