TY - BOOK AU - Wood James ED - Institution of Electrical Engineers TI - History of international broadcasting T2 - IEE history of technology series SN - 0852969201 AV - HE8697.4 U1 - 384.54 PY - 1992///- CY - London PB - P. Peregrinus Ltd. in association with the Science Museum KW - International broadcasting KW - Radiodiffusion internationale KW - Histoire KW - Radio en politique KW - Radio dans la propagande N1 - Vol. 1 not numbered; Includes bibliographical references and index; The triode and radio telephony -- Origins of entertainment broadcasting -- Technological revolution -- Commercial broadcasting -- A social tool: birth of the BBC -- Propaganda: the cradle years, 1927-1938 -- Radio Luxembourg: super power comes to Europe -- International broadcasting from 1938 to the early 1960s -- British censorship and propaganda, 1939-1945 -- German broadcasting under the Nazis -- US wartime broadcasting -- Japanese wartime broadcasting -- Treason by radio -- Woofferton SW station -- The Cold War -- The Voice of America -- Satellite communications and global broadcasting -- Developments since 1960 -- The decade of audibility: 1980-1990 -- Technology of the high-power transmitter -- Broadcasting from the Federal Republic of Germany -- Scandinavian broadcasting -- LW and MW international broadcasting -- Jamming on the short waves -- 'Speaking peace unto nations': BBC World Service -- Subversion, propaganda broadcasting and the CIA -- Second in the world: the USSR -- Renewed expansion at the Voice of America -- Commercial giants: French broadcasting -- Super power in the Arab world -- Religious broadcasting and propaganda -- Transmitter sales during the 1980s -- The future of international AM broadcasting -- Appendix I: Television, the Gulf War and the future of propaganda -- Appendix II: Sales of high-power transmitters since 1991 -- Appendix III: Low-profile transmitters; v. 2. International broadcasting in the HF spectrum : past and present -- An analysis of SW sales 1950-1997 -- SW listening audiences and broadcasting output -- Projecting foreign policy, propaganda, beliefs and objectives -- Structure of US international broadcasting -- The BBC World Service -- Deutsche Welle : The voice of Germany -- Radio France International -- Voice of America -- Radio Canada International -- Swiss Radio International -- Radio Nederland Wereldomroep -- The former Soviet Union -- The Balkan region -- RFE/RL comes out of the cold -- The restructuring of US government international broadcasting -- The Arab-Islamic world -- Libya, Egypt, Kuwait and Iran -- China and SE Asia -- Radio Australia -- US religious/commercial private broadcasters -- The broadcast transmitter industry -- Company profiles -- Steerable 500kW rated curtain antenna arrays -- Profile of the tube manufacturing industry -- The future is digital -- The future for international braodcasting in the HF spectrum -- Appendix I: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty -- Appendix II: SW reference list for the major transmitter manufacturers ER -