Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States

by Thomas Streeter

Book Overview

In this interdisciplinary study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, Thomas Streeter reverses the usual take on broadcasting and markets by showing that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. Analyzing the processes by which commercial media are organized, Streeter asks how it is possible to take the practice of broadcasting--the reproduction of disembodied sounds and pictures for dissemination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226777227
• ISBN13: 9780226777221
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"