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An Air War with Cuba
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00Since 1985, Radio Marti, a Radio Free Europe-type station, has broadcast American news and propaganda in Cuba. Its sister station, TV Marti, debuted in 1990. A respected operation at the start, Radio and TV Marti fell under the influence of the Cuban American National Foundation--a group of hard-line Cuban exiles--who intensified the anti-Castro rhetoric... more...
Al-jazeera
Basic Books 2008; US$ 16.00Offers a first look at the all-Arab news network and its controversial role in the Arab world more...
American Radio in China
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Interwar era efforts to expand US radio into China floundered in the face of flawed US policies and approaches. Situated at the intersection of media studies, technology studies, and US foreign relations, this study frames the ill-fated radio initiatives as symptomatic of an increasingly troubled US-East Asian relationship before the Pacific War. more...
Audience Ratings in a Digital Age
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95In Tracking the Audience: The Ratings Industry From Analog to Digital , author Karen Buzzard examines the key economic, political, and competitive factors that have influenced ratings methods dominant in each of the markets for radio, TV, and the Internet, tracing the practice¹s history from its early beginnings up to its most recent advances.? ... more...
The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922-53
Manchester University Press 2010; US$ 95.00Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this book is the first study that focuses in a comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programs, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The BBC and national identity in Britain offers a... more...
Bad News (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 49.95It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976. The authors undertook an exhaustive monitoring of all television broadcasts... more...
Beyond the Box
Wiley 2011; US$ 37.95Beyond the Box gives students and couch potatoes alike a better understanding of what it means to watch television in an era of profound technological change. Charts the revolution in television viewing that is currently underway in living rooms across the world Probes how the Internet’s development has altered how television is made and... more...
Beyond the Box
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 99.95Beyond the Box gives students and couch potatoes alike a better understanding of what it means to watch television in an era of profound technological change. Charts the revolution in television viewing that is currently underway in living rooms across the world Probes how the Internet’s development has altered how television is made and... more...
Blue Skies
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 79.50Blue Skies is the first complete history of cable television, the most influential technology affecting the lives of almost every American. Author Patrick Parsons writes about the early days of cable -- they go back farther than most people know -- and the pioneers in the last half of the twentieth century whose business skills, entrepreneurial instinct,... more...
Branding Television
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Branding Television examines why and how the UK and US television industries have turned towards branding as a strategy in response to the rise of satellite, cable and digital television, and new media, such as the internet and mobile phone. This is the first book to offer a sustained critical analysis of this new cultural development. Branding... more...









