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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"radio history"”.
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The relationship between the BBC and the commercial radio sector in promoting DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) in the United Kingdom.
… It represents only one method of listening to radio output in a digital format but one in which the BBC, and latterly, the commercial radio sector, placed a huge degree of trust. It has however not become the standard mode of radio listening. One can argue that after much proactive effort from …
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Characterizing radio channels : the science and technology of propagation and interference, 1900-1935
… rise to such a transformation: the studies of radio-wave propagation and the treatments of radio interferences in early twentieth-century America and Western Europe. The part on propagation examines the debate between the surface diffraction theory and the atmospheric reflection theory for long …
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From prop to producer: the appropriation of radio technology in opera during the Weimar Republic.
This thesis explores the appropriation of radio technology in opera composed during the Weimar Republic. It identifies a gap in current research where opera and radio have often been examined separately in the fields of musicology and media history. This research adopts a case study approach and …
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Tuning In: Nationalist Radio in China, 1928–1937
… Euro-America in the Anglophone literature of radio broadcasting during the Interwar Period, and the second is to decentre China in the Sinophone literature on early-period broadcasting before 1949. As radio was a global medium, a history of one without the other would be incomplete. The third …
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A history of BBC local radio in England: c1960 – 1980
The story of BBC Local Radio in England, from the days of its conception around 1960, through to the launch of the first stations in 1967 and the finalisation of how to complete the chain in 1980 is a neglected area of research in media history. This thesis tells this story, using previously …
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Secondary education in BBC Broadcast 1944–1965: drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform
… for this study include the surviving microfilmed radio scripts, dating from 1944–1965 and held at the BBC Written Archives (BBC WAC). The correspondence files from contributors to programmes also provide a key source from BBC WAC. The majority of the programmes considered are radio broadcast, …
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Secondary Education in BBC Broadcast 1944–1965: drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform
… for this study include the surviving microfilmed radio scripts, dating from 1944–1965 and held at the BBC Written Archives (BBC WAC). The correspondence files from contributors to programmes also provide a key source from BBC WAC. The majority of the programmes considered are radio broadcast, …
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The Voice of the Negro: African American Radio, WVON, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Chicago
… research has been done on the role that radio stations in the northern United States played in spreading information related to the Civil Rights Movement. Owned and operated by Chess Records label owners Leonard and Phil Chess, the Chicago radio station WVON 1450 AM, "The Voice of the …