The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936

The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936
Author: Jennifer Ruth Doctor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521661171

This book, first published in 2000, examines the BBC's attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to contemporary music between 1922 and 1936.

British Broadcasting

British Broadcasting
Author: R.H. Coase
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2013-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135163456

First Published in 1969. Written in 1950, this book seeks to answer the three questions of how is it that broadcasting in Great Britain came to be organised on a monopolistic basis? What has been the effect of the monopoly on the development of, and policy towards, competitive services such as wire broadcasting and foreign commercial broadcasting intended for listeners in Great Britain ? Finally, what are the views which have been held on the monopoly of broadcasting in Great Britain?

The British Press and Nazi Germany

The British Press and Nazi Germany
Author: Kylie Galbraith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350102113

What was known and understood about the nature of the Nazi dictatorship in Britain prior to war in 1939? How was Nazism viewed by those outside of Germany? The British Press and Nazi Germany considers these questions through the lens of the British press. Until now, studies that centre on British press attitudes to Nazi Germany have concentrated on issues of foreign policy. The focus of this book is quite different. In using material that has largely been neglected, Kylie Galbraith examines what the British press reported about life inside the Nazi dictatorship. In doing so, the book imparts important insights into what was known and understood about the Nazi revolution. And, because the overwhelming proportion of the British public's only means of news was the press, this volume shows what people in Britain could have known about the Nazi dictatorship. It reveals what the British people were being told about the regime, specifically the destruction of Weimar democracy, the ruthless persecution of minorities, the suppression of the churches and the violent factional infighting within Nazism itself. This pathbreaking examination of the British press' coverage of Nazism in the 1930s greatly enhances our knowledge of the fascist regime with which the British Government was attempting to reach agreement at the time.

British Broadcasting

British Broadcasting
Author: Burton Paulu
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 1956
Genre: Radio broadcasting
ISBN: 1452909547

Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922—67

Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922—67
Author: Martin Dibbs
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2018-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319956094

This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation’s largest audiences. It provides an insight into key events, personalities, programmes, internal politics and trends in popular entertainment, censorship and anti-American policy as they individually or collectively affected the Department. Martin Dibbs examines how the Department's programmes became markers in the daily and weekly lives of millions of listeners, and helped shape the nation's listening habits when radio was the dominant source of domestic entertainment. The book explores events and topics which, while not directly forming part of the Variety Department’s history, nevertheless intersected with or had an impact on it. Such topics include the BBC’s attitude to jazz and rock and roll, the arrival of television with its impact on radio, the pirate radio stations, and the Popular Music and Gramophone Departments, both of whom worked closely with the Variety Department.

BBC Annual 1935

BBC Annual 1935
Author: British Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 191
Release: 1935
Genre: Radio broadcasting
ISBN:

Crossing the Ether

Crossing the Ether
Author: Sean Street
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780861966684

Histories of British broadcasting suggest that the BBC monopoly was never seriously challenged until the coming of ITV in 1955. Crossing the Ether counters this view, telling the story of commercial radio's first challenge to the Public Service monopoly between 1930 and 1939. In the telling, this account provides substantial primary evidence that radio in Britain during the 1930s was a battleground between continental-based stations, run by British and American commercial interests, and the BBC, beset by paternalistic and sabbatarian principles.