Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from September 2007

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from September 2007

Editor's note: why teach historiography or study media history?
September 1, 2007... Investigative journalism, producing documentaries, and the writing of history are tempestuous parallels (Godfrey, 2006). Indeed, a famous quote often attributed to Philip Graham of the Washington Post, among others, suggests that "journalism is...

Developing a television genre: Table Talk with Helen Sioussat.
September 1, 2007... The television tube warmed, the black-and-white screen flickered, and the image of four people sitting around a coffee table soon appeared. "Ladies and gentlemen," a male voice with a slight New England accent announced, "the people you see but...

News directors and consultants: RTNDA's endorsement of TV journalism's "greatest tool".(Radio-Television News Directors Association)(business journalism)
September 1, 2007... As scholars consider the commercial values modern newscasts exude, business theories are widely cited in studies of television news. With this trend, however, comes a problem: how to treat historical literature that champions news directors'...

Radio prototype: Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly's Hear It Now.
September 1, 2007... Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly's See It Now has long been saluted as a pioneering television news program (e.g., Leab, 1983). Particularly renowned is the program's 1954 expose of Senator Joseph McCarthy (e.g., Doherty, 2003, pp. 161-188;...

A guest in our living room: the television newscaster before the rise of the dominant anchor.
September 1, 2007... The changing face of network television news during the past few years has sparked renewed debate on the future of television news. But the death of Peter Jennings as well as the disappearance from the anchor chair by Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather...

The pigskin and the picture tube: the National Football League's first full season on the CBS Television Network.(Columbia Broadcasting System)
September 1, 2007... When the New York Giants and the San Francisco Forty-Niners kicked off a new NFL season on September 30, 1956, (1) the Columbia Broadcasting System became the first network to broadcast a full season of professional football games on network...

Regulating the government's airwaves: creation of the Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC).
September 1, 2007... As new media technologies evolve, many become necessities--telegraph, telephone, and undersea cable in the 19th century, for example, and radio, television, cable, and satellite television in the 20th. Today, the Internet has joined this...

A universal speaking service: the role of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in the development of National Network Broadcasting, 1922-1926.
September 1, 2007... Radio transmission evolved into something new on November 2, 1920. On Election Day a recently established radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA, reported the election results to a public that was becoming increasingly interested in radio. How...

The long road to radio studies.
September 1, 2007... For most of the medium's existence there has been an insufficient effort by academics and scholars to assess and acknowledge radio's role in American culture. Barbara D. Savage, author of Broadcasting Freedom (1999), put it succinctly when she...

The quieted voice: The rise and demise of localism in American radio.(Critical essay)
September 1, 2007... Hilliard, R. L, & Keith, M. C. (2005). The quieted voice: The rise and demise of localism in American radio. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 213 pages. For the 8 decades that the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) and then the...

The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Baughman, J. L. (2006). The republic of mass culture: Journalism, filmmaking, and broadcasting in America since 1941 (3d ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 320 pages. When James Baughman's The Republic of Mass Culture was...

9XM talking: WHA radio and the Wisconsin idea.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Davidson, R. (2006). 9XM talking: WHA radio and the Wisconsin idea. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 405 pages. As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin in the 1970s, I walked to class every morning past a historical marker...

Prime-time television: A concise history: Interpreting television: Television: The critical view.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Moore, B., Bensman, M. R., & Van Dyke, J. (2006). Prime-time television: A concise history. Westport, CT: Praeger. 305 pages. Lury, K. (2005). Interpreting television. London: Hodder Headline Group. 198 pages. Newcomb, H. (Ed.)....

Listener supported: The culture and history of public radio: NPR: The trials and triumphs of National Public Radio.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Mitchell, J. W. (2005). Listener supported: The culture and history of public radio. Westport, CT: Praeger. 220 pages. McCauley, M. P. (2005). NPR: The trials and triumphs of National Public Radio. New York: Columbia University Press. 185...

A journey with the Washington Press Corps.(Reporting from Washington: The history of the Washington Press Corps)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Ritchie, D. A. (2005). Reporting from Washington: The history of the Washington Press Corps. New York: Oxford University Press. 432 pages. Donald A. Ritchie's analytical rigor and attention to historical detail have produced a book...