Radio's hidden voice
Subtitle: the origins of public broadcasting in the United States
By: Hugh Richard Slotten.
Series: The history of communication
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252034473
Subjects: Broadcasting -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public service experimentation, land-grant universities, and the development of broadcasting, 1900-1925; title: University stations, extension ideals, and broadcast practices during the 1920s; title: Public service broadcasting and the development of radio policy, 1900-1925; title: The federal radio commission and the decline of non-commercial educational stations, 1927-1934; title: Education and the fight to reform radio broadcasting, 1930-1936; title: Broadcast practices and the stabilization of non-commercial stations during the 1930s and 1940s; title: Network practices, government oversight, and public service ideals : the University of Chicago round-table program.