a ISBN 0-85296-920-1

a ISBN 0-86341-302-1

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number HE8697.4

b Item number .W66 1992

a Dewey Classification 384.54

a Personal name Wood James

d Dates associated with a name 1920

a Title History of international broadcasting /

c Statement of responsibility, etc James Wood.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc London :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc P. Peregrinus Ltd. in association with the Science Museum,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c1992-

a Extent v. <1-2 > :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 24 cm.

a Series statement IEE history of technology series ;

v Volume number/sequential designation 19, <23 >

a General note Vol. 1 not numbered.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note 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

a Formatted contents note 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.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element International broadcasting

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Radiodiffusion internationale

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Radio en politique

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Radio dans la propagande

a Uniform title History of technology series ;