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Radio and Television Regulation
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Slotten effectively uses published primary sources and unpublished archives to discuss the complex interactions between engineers and policy-makers in the United States. The scope of the book is excellent and covers decisions over a forty-year period involving four major technologies (AM radio, monochrome television, FM radio, and color television) that defined the broadcast industry until the passage of the Telecommunications Act in 1996. -- Ronald KlineCornell University, author of Consumers in the Country and Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Engineering Public Policy for Radio: Herbert Hoover, the Department of Commerce, and the Broadcast Boom, 1900–1927
Chapter 2. Radio Engineers, the Federal Radio Commission, and the Social Shaping of Broadcast Technology: "Creating Radio Paradise," 1927–1934
Chapter 3. Competition for Standards: Television Broadcasting, Commercialization, and Technical Expertise, 1928–1941
Chapter 4. "Rainbow in the Sky": FM Radio, Technical Superiority, and Regulatory Decision Making, 1936–1948
Chapter 5. VHF and UHF: Establishing a Nationwide Television System, 1945–1960
Chapter 6. Competition for Color-Television Standards: Formulating Policy for Technological Innovation, 1946–1960
Epilogue
Notes
Note on Secondary Sources
Index

About the Author

Hugh R. Slotten is a postdoctoral fellow in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. He is the author of Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science.

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[ Radio and Television Regulation] is a solidly grounded scholarship of the highest quality. -- Jeremy Harris Lipschultz Journal of Radio Studies Slotten's study is a valuable addition to the historical literature on broadcasting (or more broadly the regulation of technology in society). It is both well researched and well written. -- Christopher H. Sterling Journal of American History Another soild contribution to the literature on the development of U.S. broadcasting. Slotten's research into the complex process of broadcast regulation is meticulous. -- Jason Loviglio Enterprise and Society The depiction of the manifold tensions that exist between technocratic and nontechnocratic views concerning the function of public policy institutions infuse the book's narrative with a freshness and originality that make it a welcome and valuable addition to what has been an otherwise lackluster list of titles typically more intent on describing the rules and regulations that govern broadcast media than in examining their revealing and illuminating origins. -- Michael C. Keith Historian Analyzing the complex interplay of of the factors forming public policy for radio and television broadcasting, and taking into account the ideological traditions that framed these controversies, the author sheds light on the rise of the regulatory state. International Review of Administrative Sciences Not since the writings of Marshall McLuhan have knowledge shapers in the broadcast field shown interest in technological determinism... Finally Hugh R. Slotten redeems a technological perspective. -- Craig Allen American Historical Review A rigorous and thoughtful study of American broadcast regulation is always a valuable contribution. Hugh Slotten's new book succeeds admirably in this regard. -- James Schwoch Business History Review Slotten's work usefully augments the body of literature concerned with telecommunications and mass media law, policy, and regulation. -- William J. White Technology and Culture

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