LEADER 00000cam a22006014a 4500 001 ocn683247718 005 20130620122453.0 008 101110t20112011paua b 001 0 eng 010 2010047579 016 7 015776283|2Uk 020 9780812243116|qhardcover|qalkaline paper 020 0812243110|qhardcover|qalkaline paper 024 8 3615856 035 (OCoLC)ocn683247718 035 572947 040 PU/DLC|beng|cDLC|dYDX|dYDXCP|dBWX|dCDX|dUPM|dIG#|dUKMGB |dMIX|dMNE|dYUS|dBDX|dA7U|dGTA 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 RIDM 050 00 HE8698|b.S755 2011 082 00 384.54/3097309041|222 090 HE8698 .S755 2011 100 1 Stamm, Michael.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ no2010188988 245 10 Sound business :|bnewspapers, radio, and the politics of new media /|cMichael Stamm. 250 1st ed. 264 1 Philadelphia :|bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,|c[2011] 264 4 |c©2011 300 viii, 256 pages :|billustrations, map ;|c24 cm. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 490 1 American business, politics, and society 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction: underwriting the ether: newspapers and the origins of American broadcasting -- 1. Power, politics, and the promise of new media: newspaper ownership of radio in the 1920s -- 2. New empires: media concentration in the 1930s -- 3. Reshaping the public sphere: the New Deal and media concentration -- 4. Reform liberalism and the media: the Federal Communications Commission's newspaper-radio investigation -- 5. Media corporations and the critical public: the struggle over ownership diversity in postwar broadcasting -- Conclusion: the persistence of print: newspapers and broadcasting in the age of television. 520 American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years. Today digital media challenge the printed word. In the 1920s, broadcast radio was the threatening upstart. At the time, newspaper publishers of all sizes turned threat into opportunity by establishing their own stations. Many, such as the Chicago Tribune's WGN, are still in operation. By 1940 newspapers owned 30 percent of America's radio stations. This new type of enterprise, the multimedia corporation, troubled those who feared its power to control the flow of news and information. In Sound Business, historian Michael Stamm traces how these corporations and their critics reshaped the ways Americans received the news. Stamm is attuned to a neglected aspect of U.S. media history: the role newspaper owners played in communications from the dawn of radio to the rise of television. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources, he recounts the controversies surrounding joint newspaper and radio operations. These companies capitalized on synergies between print and broadcast production. As their advertising revenue grew, so did concern over their concentrated influence. Federal policymakers, especially during the New Deal, responded to widespread concerns about the consequences of media consolidation by seeking to limit and even ban cross ownership. The debates between corporations, policymakers, and critics over how to regulate these new kinds of media businesses ultimately structured the channels of information distribution in the United States and determined who would control the institutions undergirding American society and politics. 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