{"product_id":"sound-business-9780812223811","title":"Sound Business","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSound Business tunes in on a neglected aspect of U.S. media history, the role newspaper owners played in the development of radio. This rigorously researched and balanced history of the news business and government regulation expands our understanding of mid-twentieth-century America and offers lessons for the digital age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSound Business\u003c\/i\u003e is the absorbing account of the conversion of America's post-World War I newspaper business into the early multimedia conglomerates that form today's media giants. . . . Scholars and students alike will regard this exceptional history as a great addition to the literature on how new media intertwine with old to shape the current media landscape.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stamm describes in superb detail the important but often overlooked and misunderstood relationship between the newspaper industry and the new medium of radio during an influential, anxious, and sometimes contentious time period for both.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Radio and Audio Media\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSound Business: Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-researched contribution to American media and business history. . . . But more than that, it helps us better understand the intellectual and political contexts that have both enabled and constrained American choices about cross-media ownership.\" * \u003ci\u003eBusiness History Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating, finely researched reconsideration of the newspaper industry's response to the advent of radio. Stamm has made a major contribution to mass media history.\" * James L. Baughman, author of \u003ci\u003eSame Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Underwriting the Ether: Newspapers and the Origins of American Broadcasting\u003cbr\u003e 1. Power, Politics, and the Promise of New Media: Newspaper Ownership of Radio in the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e 2. New Empires: Media Concentration in the 1930s\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reshaping the Public Sphere: The New Deal and Media Concentration\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reform Liberalism and the Media: The Federal Communications Commission's Newspaper-Radio Investigation\u003cbr\u003e 5. Media Corporations and the Critical Public: The Struggle over Ownership Diversity in Postwar Broadcasting\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Persistence of Print: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Age of Television\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Newspaper Ownership of American Broadcasting Stations, 1923-1953\u003cbr\u003e List of Archival Abbreviations and Acronyms\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405704667479,"sku":"9780812223811","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812223811.jpg?v=1730493339","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sound-business-9780812223811","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}