03252nam 2200661 a 450 991046550980332120200520144314.01-283-09765-697866130976510-226-77729-410.7208/9780226777290(CKB)2560000000072813(OCoLC)721926882(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468487(SSID)ssj0000525583(PQKBManifestationID)11913816(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525583(PQKBWorkID)10508330(PQKB)11212247(MiAaPQ)EBC686264(DE-B1597)535598(OCoLC)721194473(DE-B1597)9780226777290(Au-PeEL)EBL686264(CaPaEBR)ebr10468487(CaONFJC)MIL309765(EXLCZ)99256000000007281319950711d1996 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSelling the air[electronic resource] a critique of the policy of commercial broadcasting in the United States /Thomas StreeterChicago University of Chicago Pressc19961 online resource (354 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-226-77722-7 0-226-77721-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Liberal television -- pt. 2. The politics of broadcast policy in a corporate liberal state -- pt. 3. Selling the air : property creation and the privelege of communication.In this interdisciplinary study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, Thomas Streeter reverses the usual take on broadcasting and markets by showing that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. Analyzing the processes by which commercial media are organized, Streeter asks how it is possible to take the practice of broadcasting-the reproduction of disembodied sounds and pictures for dissemination to vast unseen audiences-and constitute it as something that can be bought, owned, and sold. With an impressive command of broadcast history, as well as critical and cultural studies of the media, Streeter shows that liberal marketplace principles-ideas of individuality, property, public interest, and markets-have come into contradiction with themselves. Commercial broadcasting is dependent on government privileges, and Streeter provides a searching critique of the political choices of corporate liberalism that shape our landscape of cultural property and electronic intangibles.Broadcasting policyUnited StatesBroadcastingLaw and legislationUnited StatesBroadcastingUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.Broadcasting policyBroadcastingLaw and legislationBroadcastingHistory.384.54/0973Streeter Thomas140855MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465509803321Selling the air500734UNINA