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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1992.
Full Description
The history of radio broadcasting is traced from its earliest origins, through its role as a subversive tool in World War II to the cold war era, and finally to its present day use as an instrument of foreign policy used by over 160 countries.
The effects on the cold war, in which propoganda broadcasting was the ultimate weapon, contributing in no small measure to the collapse of communism in the USSR, are analysed. The roles of Voice of America, the BBC World Service and others come under scrutiny, and the concluding chapters report on the explosive growth in international broadcasting now taking place in the aftermath of recent political events.
The book is supplemented with up-to-date technical data and statistics on major expansions now under way or being planned in many countries, particularly the USA and the Arab states, some of the latter having a broadcasting capacity that dwarfs most western countries.
The appeal of the book is by no means restricted to scientists and engineers and many will find much to stir their memories of international radio broadcasts in wartime and peacetime alike.
Contents
Part 1: Birth of a medium
Chapter 1: The triode and radio telephony
Chapter 2: Origins of entertainment broadcasting
Chapter 3: Technological revolution
Chapter 4: Commercial broadcasting
Chapter 5: A social tool: birth of the BBC
Chapter 6: Propaganda: the cradle years, 1927-1938
Chapter 7: Radio Luxembourg: super power comes to Europe
Part 2: A weapon of war
Chapter 8: International broadcasting from 1938 to the early 1960s
Chapter 9: British censorship and propaganda, 1939-1945
Chapter 10: German broadcasting under the Nazis
Chapter 11: US wartime broadcasting
Chapter 12: Japanese wartime broadcasting
Chapter 13: Treason by radio
Chapter 14: Woofferton SW station
Chapter 15: The Cold War
Chapter 16: The Voice of America
Chapter 17: Satellite communications and global broadcasting
Part 3: Radio as an instrument of foreign policy
Chapter 18: Developments since 1960
Chapter 19: The decade of audibility: 1980-1990
Chapter 20: Technology of the high-power transmitter
Chapter 21: Broadcasting from the Federal Republic of Germany
Chapter 22: Scandinavian broadcasting
Chapter 23: LW and MW international broadcasting
Chapter 24: Jamming on the short waves
Chapter 25: 'Speaking peace unto nations': BBC World Service
Chapter 26: Subversion, propaganda broadcasting and the CIA
Chapter 27: Second in the world: the USSR
Chapter 28: Renewed expansion at the Voice of America
Chapter 29: Commercial giants: French broadcasting
Chapter 30: Super power in the Arab world
Chapter 31: Religious broadcasting and propaganda
Chapter 32: Transmitter sales during the 1980s
Chapter 33: The future of international AM broadcasting
Appendix 1: Television, the Gulf War and the future of propaganda
Appendix 2: Sales of high-power transmitterssince 1991
Appendix 3: Low-profile transmitters
