Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Progress of FM Radio
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Early FM Radio
Author: Gary L. Frost
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899133
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The commonly accepted history of FM radio is one of the twentieth century’s iconic sagas of invention, heroism, and tragedy. Edwin Howard Armstrong created a system of wideband frequency-modulation radio in 1933. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), convinced that Armstrong’s system threatened its AM empire, failed to develop the new technology and refused to pay Armstrong royalties. Armstrong sued the company at great personal cost. He died despondent, exhausted, and broke. But this account, according to Gary L. Frost, ignores the contributions of scores of other individuals who were involved in the decades-long struggle to realize the potential of FM radio. The first scholar to fully examine recently uncovered evidence from the Armstrong v. RCA lawsuit, Frost offers a thorough revision of the FM story. Frost’s balanced, contextualized approach provides a much-needed corrective to previous accounts. Navigating deftly through the details of a complicated story, he examines the motivations and interactions of the three communities most intimately involved in the development of the technology—Progressive-era amateur radio operators, RCA and Westinghouse engineers, and early FM broadcasters. In the process, Frost demonstrates the tension between competition and collaboration that goes hand in hand with the emergence and refinement of new technologies. Frost's study reconsiders both the social construction of FM radio and the process of technological evolution. Historians of technology, communication, and media will welcome this important reexamination of the canonic story of early FM radio.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899133
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The commonly accepted history of FM radio is one of the twentieth century’s iconic sagas of invention, heroism, and tragedy. Edwin Howard Armstrong created a system of wideband frequency-modulation radio in 1933. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), convinced that Armstrong’s system threatened its AM empire, failed to develop the new technology and refused to pay Armstrong royalties. Armstrong sued the company at great personal cost. He died despondent, exhausted, and broke. But this account, according to Gary L. Frost, ignores the contributions of scores of other individuals who were involved in the decades-long struggle to realize the potential of FM radio. The first scholar to fully examine recently uncovered evidence from the Armstrong v. RCA lawsuit, Frost offers a thorough revision of the FM story. Frost’s balanced, contextualized approach provides a much-needed corrective to previous accounts. Navigating deftly through the details of a complicated story, he examines the motivations and interactions of the three communities most intimately involved in the development of the technology—Progressive-era amateur radio operators, RCA and Westinghouse engineers, and early FM broadcasters. In the process, Frost demonstrates the tension between competition and collaboration that goes hand in hand with the emergence and refinement of new technologies. Frost's study reconsiders both the social construction of FM radio and the process of technological evolution. Historians of technology, communication, and media will welcome this important reexamination of the canonic story of early FM radio.
FM
Author: Richard Neer
Publisher: Villard
ISBN: 1588360733
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty thousand magical watts of crystal clear power . . . before the days of trashy, hedonistic dumbspeak and disposable three-minute ditties . . . in the days where rock lived at many addresses in many cities." –from FM As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New York–one of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio by rejecting strict formatting and letting disc jockeys play whatever they wanted. He felt that when he got there, he’d have made the big time. Little did he know he’d have shaped rock history as well. FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio chronicles the birth, growth, and death of free-form rock-and-roll radio through the stories of the movement’s flagship stations. In the late sixties and early seventies–at stations like KSAN in San Francisco, WBCN in Boston, WMMR in Philadelphia, KMET in Los Angeles, WNEW, and others–disc jockeys became the gatekeepers, critics, and gurus of new music. Jocks like Scott Muni, Vin Scelsa, Jonathan Schwartz, and Neer developed loyal followings and had incredible influence on their listeners and on the early careers of artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, the Cars, and many others. Full of fascinating firsthand stories, FM documents the commodification of an iconoclastic phenomenon, revealing how counterculture was coopted and consumed by the mainstream. Richard Neer was an eyewitness to, and participant in, this history. FM is the tale of his exhilarating ride.
Publisher: Villard
ISBN: 1588360733
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty thousand magical watts of crystal clear power . . . before the days of trashy, hedonistic dumbspeak and disposable three-minute ditties . . . in the days where rock lived at many addresses in many cities." –from FM As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New York–one of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio by rejecting strict formatting and letting disc jockeys play whatever they wanted. He felt that when he got there, he’d have made the big time. Little did he know he’d have shaped rock history as well. FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio chronicles the birth, growth, and death of free-form rock-and-roll radio through the stories of the movement’s flagship stations. In the late sixties and early seventies–at stations like KSAN in San Francisco, WBCN in Boston, WMMR in Philadelphia, KMET in Los Angeles, WNEW, and others–disc jockeys became the gatekeepers, critics, and gurus of new music. Jocks like Scott Muni, Vin Scelsa, Jonathan Schwartz, and Neer developed loyal followings and had incredible influence on their listeners and on the early careers of artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, the Cars, and many others. Full of fascinating firsthand stories, FM documents the commodification of an iconoclastic phenomenon, revealing how counterculture was coopted and consumed by the mainstream. Richard Neer was an eyewitness to, and participant in, this history. FM is the tale of his exhilarating ride.
Radio Frequency Modulation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Radio broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Progress
Author: United States. Department of the Army
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
All-channel Radio Receivers
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
All-channel Radio Receivers, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications of ..., 93-2, April 24, 25, 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
U.S. Army Progress '63
Author:
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Category : Defensive (Military science)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This book is the story of progress in the U.S. Army from 1961 to 1963.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defensive (Military science)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This book is the story of progress in the U.S. Army from 1961 to 1963.
Progress; United States Army Reports
Author: United States. Dept. of the Army
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Study on media development in Tunisia: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9230011886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9230011886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description