Radio's Hidden Voice

Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Prologue; 1. Public Service Experimentation, Land-Grant Universities, and the Development of Broadcasting, 1900-1925.; 2. University Stations, Extension Ideals, and Broadcast Practices during the 1920s.; 3. Public Service Broadcasting and the Development of Radio Policy, 1900-1925.; 4. The Federal Radio Commission and the Decline of Non-Commercial Educational Stations, 1927-1934.; 5. Education and the Fight to Reform Radio Broadcasting, 1930-1936.; 6. Broadcast Practices and the Stabilization of Non-Commercial Stations during the 1930s and 1940s.; 7. Network Practices, Government Oversight, and Public Service Ideals: The University of Chicago Round-Table Program.; Epilogue.; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Index

''Thoroughly researched and engaging. An important contribution to scholarship on public radio, early radio history, and on questions of how the 'public interest' has been defined in broadcast and communication policy in the twentieth century.'' Jason Loviglio, author of Radio's Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy