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Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media - Volume 9, Issue 1, 2011
Volume 9, Issue 1, 2011
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Transmit/disrupt: Why does illegal broadcasting continue to thrive in the age of spectrum liberalization?
More LessThis research examines the systemic factors that perpetuate illegal broadcasting in London. It is primarily based on interviews conducted with relevant policy-makers, lobbyists and activists between May and August 2009. Findings were contextualized by secondary data and documents sourced in part through applications under the Freedom of Information Act. The research finds that illegal broadcasting plays a key role in the value chain of production within the urban music industry and that current digital radio policy is unlikely to reduce its prevalence. Illegal broadcasting is becoming an increasingly marginalized issue in regulatory discourse and there is a growing emphasis on enforcement at the expense of licensing alternatives. The research also uncovers significant aspects of 'informal' policy-making in respect of illegal broadcasting, raising question marks over the transparency and accountability of the policy process.
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Between Ourselves and 1950s Ireland: The use of radio archives as an historical source
More LessThe written archives of a broadcast media organization are often the only surviving evidence that programmes once existed. Ireland's Radio Éireann (later Raidió Teilifís Éireann), like many state and other broadcasters up until the 1970s, regularly wiped programmes after broadcast when they were deemed to have exhausted their value. An example of such a 'lost' programme is the women's 'magazine feature' Between Ourselves (BETOS), broadcast between 1953 and 1959. This article uses BETOS as a case study to indicate how written archives can reconstruct these vanished artefacts, as well as suggesting the scripts' research value for students of 1950s Ireland, in particular students of women's history.
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Internet radio flows: Between the local and the global
More LessThe term 'international radio' has traditionally been used to refer to programmes that were broadcast to foreign audiences by government-owned radio stations from most countries using shortwave broadcasting technology. Since 1995, though, the possibility of making live transmissions simultaneously available on the Internet has meant that radio stations can reach international audiences without the limitations faced by shortwave radio. The single public radio station per country, sometimes only operating for a few hours a day with repeated news, has been replaced by a multitude of stations broadcasting their regular programming 24 hours a day without repetition.
This research focuses on 'radio via the Internet', taken as a type of 'international radio'; and on 'Internet radio flows', understood as a type of 'international radio flow'. It is based upon an empirical investigation of the content and origin of such stations. It aims to map 'potential' (since it does not attempt to measure the audience of each station) international flows of radio content on the Internet by surveying a sample of 378 radio stations from 145 countries, extracted from an universe of 3450 radio stations, through a combination of probabilistic and non-probabilistic methodologies.
The results show an overwhelmingly 'local' and diverse content to these broadcasts, but that over a nearly 20 per cent of broadcasts originate in the United States.
This article discusses the implications of such findings in terms of technological access and the notion of 'internationally oriented' radio.
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Exchange and interconnection in US network radio: A reinterpretation of the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast
Authors: Joy Elizabeth Hayes and Kathleen BattlesThis article offers a revision of the dominant reading of the 1938 War of the Worlds radio play as an unparalleled example of media power and radio artistry. Analyses of both the sound-text of the broadcast and audience responses collected afterwards show that War of the Worlds – like a number of other radio programme genres – explored the possibility of two-way communication in national network radio. The play celebrated radio's ability to coordinate multiple communication media and create a 'constant communicative presence' in which the listener was a central part. Although many audience members were frightened or disturbed by the broadcast, we argue that the primary audience response was to communicate with others through social and technologically mediated networks. Listeners drew on these networks to interrogate the meaning of the broadcast, share information with family and friends and 'talk back' to the media.
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Cultural imperialism of the North? The expansion of the CBC Northern Service and community radio
More LessRadio broadcasting spread quickly across southern Canada in the 1920s and 1930s through the licensing of private independent stations, supplemented from 1932 by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission and by its successor, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, from 1936. Broadcasting in the Canadian North did not follow the same trajectory of development. The North was first served by the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals that operated the Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System from 1923 until 1959. The northern Canadian radio stations then became part of the CBC. This work explores the resistance to the CBC Northern Broadcasting Plan of 1974, which envisaged a physical expansion of the network. Southern programming was extended to the North; however, indigenous culture and language made local northern programmes more popular. Efforts to reinforce local programming and stations were resisted by the network, while community groups in turn rebuffed the network's efforts to expand and establish its programming in the North, by persisting in attempts to establish a larger base for community radio.
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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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Volume 1 (2003 - 2004)