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Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media - Volume 1, Issue 3, 2004
Volume 1, Issue 3, 2004
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Editorial
By Ken GarnerThis concluding number of the first volume of The Radio Journal features, as promised, two major new articles from notable figures who have been most influential in our international community of radio scholars for many years: Peter Lewis, our Associate Editor; and Manuel Chaparro Escudero, of the University of Malaga and our International Advisory Board.
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Opening and closing doors: radio drama in the BBC
By Peter LewisRadio drama has long been a cornerstone of the BBC's public service broadcasting (PSB) remit. Its current state of health might therefore be regarded as an indicator of the BBC's commitment to PSB values in today's ‘convergence environment’. This article compares radio drama production and the commissioning process in the late 1980s with contemporary practice, drawing on a participant observation study reported in Scannell's Broadcast Talk and on recent research. The introduction of new technology in production and management has affected creative practice, but a more significant influence has been a changed management culture and the radical restructuring it has overseen.
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Third sector radio in Spain
More LessThe article traces the development of two kinds of community radio within ‘Third Sector’ media in Spain, those media not governed either by public or commercial control: community radio with an associative origin, and ‘public community radio’. The former operates in Spain without any legal framework to protect it, a circumstance which has hindered its further development. Rejection by the government and lack of sensitivity on the part of political parties has led a number of collectives to seek support from local city halls to defend their right to broadcast. This has created city hall, or public community radio stations: a community model that is managed publicly. The development of these broadcasting stations has in many cases turned into an important reference for participatory communication, communication as an essential feature of development. Public community radio has succeeded in dynamizing many communities where the absence of communications media constituted an important democratic deficit.
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Bare-knuckled broadcasting: enlisting manly respectability and racial paternalism in the battle against chain stores, chain stations, and the Federal Radio Commission on Louisiana's KWKH, 1924–33
More LessBetween 1924 and 1933 William Kennon Henderson, a clear-channel Shreveport, Louisiana broadcaster, ‘abused’ radio to defend its regional autonomy. Defying principles of the ‘American System’ of commercial network broadcasting, Henderson charged chain and network broadcasters, chain retailers, and the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), the regulatory body overseeing broadcasting, with impinging on local control of the airwaves and of everyday life itself. Henderson's neo-populist critique operated synergistically by interspersing combative political commentaries with cultural programmes that championed white Southern paternalism, manly respectability, and conventional gender and racial modes of social organization. Henderson's ‘abuse’ of the market-friendly cult of respectability heard elsewhere on the dial won supporters across the country and generated consternation in the United States Senate, among corporate retailers, and within the FRC. This essay argues that the Depression exacerbated regional tensions such that the KWKH airwaves readily became a self-reflexive space for debates over modernity and embodiments of economic, social, and cultural power.
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Book Reviews
Authors: Andrew Crisell and Guy StarkeySean Street, A Concise History of British Radio, 1922–2002 Tiverton: Kelly Publications, 2002, 155 pp., ISBN 1-903053-14-5
Jean-Jacques Cheval (ed.), Audiences, publics & pratiques radiophoniques Pessac: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, 2003, 198 pp., ISBN 2-85892-300-0
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Index – Volume 1
This page shows a reference list of all the articles that have appeared in this volume of the journal.
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 21 (2023)
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Volume 20 (2022)
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Volume 19 (2021)
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Volume 18 (2020)
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Volume 17 (2019)
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Volume 16 (2018)
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Volume 15 (2017)
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Volume 14 (2016)
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Volume 13 (2015)
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Volume 12 (2014)
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Volume 11 (2013)
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Volume 10 (2012)
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Volume 9 (2011)
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Volume 8 (2010 - 2011)
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Volume 7 (2009)
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Volume 6 (2008 - 2009)
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Volume 5 (2007 - 2008)
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Volume 4 (2007)
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Volume 3 (2005)
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Volume 2 (2004)
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