LEADER 03644nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910826360703321 005 20240516051321.0 010 $a1-283-09765-6 010 $a9786613097651 010 $a0-226-77729-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226777290 035 $a(CKB)2560000000072813 035 $a(OCoLC)721926882 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468487 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525583 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913816 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525583 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10508330 035 $a(PQKB)11212247 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC686264 035 $a(DE-B1597)535598 035 $a(OCoLC)721194473 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226777290 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL686264 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468487 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL309765 035 $a(dli)HEB08287 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000009859147 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000072813 100 $a19950711d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSelling the air $ea critique of the policy of commercial broadcasting in the United States /$fThomas Streeter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (354 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-226-77722-7 311 $a0-226-77721-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aBroadcasting policy$zUnited States 606 $aBroadcasting$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aBroadcasting$zUnited States$xHistory 610 $acommercial broadcasting, radio, television, government regulation, markets, media, public interest, property, individuality, corporate liberalism, law, legislation, history, licensing, copyright, electronic culture, intangibles, authorship, ownership, audience, commodity, nonfiction, policy, communication, performing arts, congress. 615 0$aBroadcasting policy 615 0$aBroadcasting$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aBroadcasting$xHistory. 676 $a384.54/0973 700 $aStreeter$b Thomas$0140855 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826360703321 996 $aSelling the air$9500734 997 $aUNINA