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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. Sound Business is a timely 
       examination of the connections between media ownership, 
       content, and distribution, one that both expands our 
       understanding of mid-twentieth-century America and offers 
       lessons for the digital age. -- Book cover. 
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