Broadcasting On The Short Waves 1945 To Today

Author : Jerome S. Berg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786451982

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Broadcasting on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today by Jerome S. Berg Pdf

Shortwave broadcasting originated in the 1920s, when stations used the new technology to increase their range in order to serve foreign audiences and reach parts of their own country not easily otherwise covered. The early days of shortwave radio were covered in On the Short Waves, 1923-1945: Broadcast Listening in the Pioneer Days of Radio, published by McFarland in 1999 (paperback 2007). Then, two companion volumes were published, picking up the story after World War II. They were Listening on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today (McFarland, 2008; paperback 2010), which focuses on the shortwave listening community, and the present Broadcasting title, about the stations themselves and their environment. The heart of the book is a detailed, year-by-year account of the shortwave bands in each year from 1945 to 2008. It reviews what American listeners were hearing on the international and domestic shortwave bands, describes the arrivals and departures of stations, and recounts important events. The book describes the several categories of broadcasters--international, domestic, private, religious, clandestine and pirate. It explains the impact of relay stations, frequency management, and jamming. It also addresses the considerable changes in shortwave broadcasting since the end of the Cold War. The book is richly illustrated and indexed, and features a bibliography and extensive notes.

Author : Jerome S. Berg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786430291

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On the Short Waves, 1923-1945 by Jerome S. Berg Pdf

As radio developed in the early 1920s, the focus for most people was the AM band and stations such as KDKA, the first broadcast station. There was, however, another broadcast method that was popular among many early enthusiasts--shortwave radio. As is true today, the transmission of news and entertainment programs over shortwave frequencies permitted reception over great distances. For many in America and beyond, shortwave was an exciting aspect of the new medium. Some still tune the shortwave bands to enjoy the programming. Others pursue broadcasts for the thrill of the hunt. This book fully covers shortwave broadcasting from its beginning through World War II. A technical history examining the medium's development and use tells the story of a listener community that spanned the globe. Included are overviews of the primary shortwave stations operating worldwide in the 1930s, along with clubs and competitions, publications and prizes. A rich collection of illustrations includes many QSLs, the cards that stations sent to acknowledge receipt of their transmissions and that are much prized by long-distance collectors.

Author : Jerome S. Berg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786451999

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Listening on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today by Jerome S. Berg Pdf

"This book presents the histories of the major North American shortwave clubs and reviews the professional and listener-generated shortwave literature of the era. It also covers the DX programs and other listening fare to which shortwave listeners were most attracted and the QSL-cards they sought as confirmation of their reception."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jerome S. Berg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786474110

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The Early Shortwave Stations by Jerome S. Berg Pdf

In July 1923, less than three years after Westinghouse station KDKA signed on, company engineer Frank Conrad began regular simulcasting of its programs on a frequency in the newly-discovered shortwave range. It was an important event in a technological revolution that would make dependable worldwide radio communication possible for the first time. In subsequent years, countless stations in practically all countries followed suit, taking to shortwave to extend reception domestically or reach audiences thousands of miles away. Shortwave broadcasting would also have an important role in World War II and in the Cold War. In this, his fourth book on shortwave broadcast history, the author revisits the period of his earlier work, On the Short Waves, 1923-1945, and focuses on the stations that were on the air in those early days. The year-by-year account chronicles the birth and operation of the large international broadcasters, as well as the numerous smaller stations that were a great attraction to the DXers, or long-distance radio enthusiasts, of the time. With more than 100 illustrations and extensive notes, bibliography and index, the book is also a valuable starting point for further study and research.

Author : Peter Simonson,Janice Peck,Robert T. Craig,John Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415892599

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The Handbook of Communication History by Peter Simonson,Janice Peck,Robert T. Craig,John Jackson Pdf

The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those forms in communication and media studies. The Handbook editors view communication as encompassing patterns, processes, and performances of social interaction, symbolic production, material exchange, institutional formation, social praxis, and discourse. As such, the history of communication cuts across social, cultural, intellectual, political, technological, institutional, and economic history. The volume examines the history of communication history; the history of ideas of communication; the history of communication media; and the history of the field of communication. Readers will explore the history of the object under consideration (relevant practices, media, and ideas), review its manifestations in different regions and cultures (comparative dimensions), and orient toward current thinking and historical research on the topic (current state of the field). As a whole, the volume gathers disparate strands of communication history into one volume, offering an accessible and panoramic view of the development of communication over time and geographical places, and providing a catalyst to further work in communication history.

Author : Alice Lovejoy,Mari Pajala
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253062215

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Remapping Cold War Media by Alice Lovejoy,Mari Pajala Pdf

Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama? Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War East and their counterparts in the West and Global South. These connections were forged by pragmatic, technological, economic, political, and aesthetic forces; they had multiple, at times conflicting, functions and meanings. And they helped shape the ways in which media circulates today—from film festivals, to satellite networks, to coproductions. Considering film, literature, radio, photography, computer games, and television, Remapping Cold War Media offers a transnational history of postwar media that spans Eastern and Western Europe, the Nordic countries, Cuba, the United States, and beyond. Contributors draw on extensive archival research to reveal how media traveled across geopolitical boundaries; the processes of translation, interpretation, and reception on which these travels depended; and the significance of media form, content, industries, and infrastructures then and now.

Author : Bradley C. Freeman,Yokanathan Ramakrishnan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443892957

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Singapore Radio by Bradley C. Freeman,Yokanathan Ramakrishnan Pdf

The world of media moves quickly – nowhere is this more the case than Singapore, a world-class alpha city that prides itself on being first. This book tracks the journey of Singapore radio from its humble beginnings to its advanced modern-day incarnations. Along the way, Freeman and Ramakrishnan also detail economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects of this medium in Singapore. The role of radio is deliberated, as well as the times when radio and its personalities have broken the rules. In addition, campus radio and social media are also discussed. The book functions as a treasure-trove, partial archive, and starting point for those interested in knowing more about the radio portion of Singapore’s media landscape. At the same time, it serves as a fitting birthday present to the medium, as radio meets and passes the 80-year mark in the country. As such, the book makes significant contributions to multiple aspects of the radio medium as it exists in Singapore, aspects that are not to be found anywhere else.

Author : M. Sakthivel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004419155

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Broadcasters’ Rights in the Digital Era by M. Sakthivel Pdf

In Broadcasters’ Rights in the Digital Era, Sakthivel provides a cogent and insightful understanding of authors’ right vis-à-vis broadcasters’ right in the technologically advanced era especially in live streaming technology context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Radio broadcasting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132420865

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World Radio TV Handbook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher H. Sterling,Cary O'Dell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135176839

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The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio by Christopher H. Sterling,Cary O'Dell Pdf

The average American listens to the radio three hours a day. In light of recent technological developments such as internet radio, some argue that the medium is facing a crisis, while others claim we are at the dawn of a new radio revolution. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio is an essential single-volume reference guide to this vital and evolving medium. It brings together the best and most important entries from the three-volume Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Radio, edited by Christopher Sterling. Comprised of more than 300 entries spanning the invention of radio to the Internet, The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio addresses personalities, music genres, regulations, technology, programming and stations, the "golden age" of radio and other topics relating to radio broadcasting throughout its history. The entries are updated throughout and the volume includes nine new entries on topics ranging from podcasting to the decline of radio. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio include suggestions for further reading as complements to most of the articles, biographical details for all person-entries, production credits for programs, and a comprehensive index.

Author : Aga Skrodzka,Xiaoning Lu,Katarzyna Marciniak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190885557

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The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures by Aga Skrodzka,Xiaoning Lu,Katarzyna Marciniak Pdf

Stereotypes often cast communism as a defunct, bankrupt ideology and a relic of the distant past. However, recent political movements like Europe's anti-austerity protests, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street suggest that communism is still very much relevant and may even hold the key to a new, idealized future. In The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures, contributors trace the legacies of communist ideology in visual culture, from buildings and monuments, murals and sculpture, to recycling campaigns and wall newspapers, all of which work to make communism's ideas and values material. Contributors work to resist the widespread demonization of communism, demystifying its ideals and suggesting that it has visually shaped the modern world in undeniable and complex ways. Together, contributors answer curcial questions like: What can be salvaged and reused from past communist experiments? How has communism impacted the cultures of late capitalism? And how have histories of communism left behind visual traces of potential utopias? An interdisciplinary look at the cultural currency of communism today, The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures demonstrates the value of revisiting the practices of the past to form a better vision of the future.

Author : Garrison C. Cavell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1948 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317396307

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National Association of Broadcasters Engineering Handbook by Garrison C. Cavell Pdf

The NAB Engineering Handbook is the definitive resource for broadcast engineers. It provides in-depth information about each aspect of the broadcast chain from audio and video contribution through an entire broadcast facility all the way to the antenna. New topics include Ultra High Definition Television, Internet Radio Interfacing and Streaming, ATSC 3.0, Digital Audio Compression Techniques, Digital Television Audio Loudness Management, and Video Format and Standards Conversion. Important updates have been made to incumbent topics such as AM, Shortwave, FM and Television Transmitting Systems, Studio Lighting, Cameras, and Principles of Acoustics. The big-picture, comprehensive nature of the NAB Engineering Handbook will appeal to all broadcast engineers—everyone from broadcast chief engineers, who need expanded knowledge of all the specialized areas they encounter in the field, to technologists in specialized fields like IT and RF who are interested in learning about unfamiliar topics. Chapters are written to be accessible and easy to understand by all levels of engineers and technicians. A wide range of related topics that engineers and technical managers need to understand are covered, including broadcast documentation, FCC practices, technical standards, security, safety, disaster planning, facility planning, project management, and engineering management.

Author : Nelson A. Logan,Murray Elliot Sherry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Diffraction
ISBN : CORNELL:31924004639781

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Bibliography on the Theory of Diffraction and Propagation of Radio Waves by Nelson A. Logan,Murray Elliot Sherry Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : UOM:39015077777327

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Radio Wave Propagation by United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee Pdf

Radiowellen, Frequenzverteilung, Funkwellen.

Author : Chas. R. Burrows
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483258546

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Radio Wave Propagation by Chas. R. Burrows Pdf

Radio Wave Propagation: Consolidated Summary Technical Report of the Committee on Propagation of the National Defense Research Committee presents all the scientific information and report of experiments. This book discusses the problems encountered in the propagation of radio waves. Organized into three volumes, this book begins with an overview of the technical developments in the study of tropospheric propagation. This text then outlines the general theory of standard and nonstandard propagation together with descriptions and results of transmission experiments designed to test the theory. Other chapters consider the more unusual problems concerning the radar behavior of targets. This book discusses as well the problems of radio wave propagation in the standard atmosphere at frequencies above 30 megacycles. The final chapter deals with the selection and utilization of local terrain features that affect propagation and the performance of equipment. This book is a valuable resource for scientists and engineers in the field of radio wave propagation.