Radio's Digital Dilemma: Broadcasting in the Twenty‑First Century

Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the United States’ digital radio transition, chronicling the technological and policy development of the HD Radio broadcast standard. A story laced with anxiety, ignorance, and hubris, the evolution of HD Radio pitted the nation’s largest commercial and public broadcasters against the rest of the radio industry and the listening public in a pitched battle over defining the digital future of the medium. The Federal Communications Commission has elected to put its faith in “marketplace forces” to govern radio’s digital transition, but this has not been a winning strategy: a dozen years from its rollout, the state of HD Radio is one of dangerous malaise, especially as newer digital audio distribution technologies fundamentally redefine the public identity of “radio” itself.

Details

Keywords

Radio

Type

Book

Place of publication

New York City

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2014

Number of pages

188 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9780415656122

Open stacks or available on request

Open stacks

Illustrations

No

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

701.17 And

Volumes

1

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