Public Radio and Television in America

Introduction The Politics of Public Radio and Television PART ONE: PROLOGUE, 1914-1945 The Public Origins of American Broadcasting The Defeat of the Broadcast Reform Movement of the 1930s PART TWO: PUBLIC RADIO Pacifica Radio The Vision of Lewis K Hill The Spread of Community Radio and Pacifica's Institutional Crisis National Public Radio The Vision of William H Siemering Public Radio From Supplemental to Primary Service PART THREE: PUBLIC TELEVISION The Foundation Years The Government Years The Corporate Years PART FOUR: COMMUNITY TELEVISION Public Access The Vision of George Stoney The Struggle over the Future of Community TV PART FIVE: CONCLUSION The Mystification of the Public Sphere in the History of American Broadcasting The Attack of the Right and the Future of Public Radio and Television