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Spohrer, Jennifer.

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Ruling the airwaves: Radio Luxembourg and the origins of European national broadcasting, 1929--1950.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ruling the airwaves: Radio Luxembourg and the origins of European national broadcasting, 1929--1950./
Author:	Spohrer, Jennifer.
Description:	461 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Victoria de Grazia.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-03A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3305265
ISBN:	9780549515043

Ruling the airwaves: Radio Luxembourg and the origins of European national broadcasting, 1929--1950.
Spohrer, Jennifer.

Ruling the airwaves: Radio Luxembourg and the origins of European national broadcasting, 1929--1950. - 461 p.

Adviser: Victoria de Grazia.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2008.

In the 1920s, Europeans developed two competing visions for radio broadcasting. On the one hand, commercial broadcasters and advertisers saw radio primarily as a profitable form of entertainment and a means of promoting goods and services. Proponents of national public broadcasting, on the other hand, argued that radio waves should be a truly public resource---isolated from the market, supported by listener license fees, and used for the more noble goals of educating and uplifting the national public. Although most historians have approached the battle between these two visions as a national phenomenon, it was in fact international from the very beginning in Europe, where broadcasts so easily crossed national borders. It became particularly acute after 1930, when a group of French commercial broadcasters began building a high-powered, long-wave station in Luxembourg capable of broadcasting advertisements and popular entertainment programs across Europe in multiple languages. Proponents of national public broadcasting turned to international organizations like the International Telecommunication Union and the International Broadcasting Union to force Radio Luxembourg off the air and establish national public broadcasting as the European norm. While they were unsuccessful in silencing Radio Luxembourg, all but five European states adopted national public broadcasting by 1935 and it would remain the European norm for several decades.

ISBN: 9780549515043Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Ruling the airwaves: Radio Luxembourg and the origins of European national broadcasting, 1929--1950.
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