Revision of the USOE copyright policy constitutes a major step in bridging the gap between the researcher and the consumer. The revisions are designed primarily to facilitate marketing arrangements between developers and disseminators of educational materials. USOE has established the framework to place a greater number of educational materials on…

Because mass media form one of the most important means of adult education, this two-volume textbook teaches the educational uses of radio. Instructions and sample scripts are included for talk, interview, discussion, magazine, feature, and drama programs. Each section is followed by questions to test the student's memory of basic concepts and…

The Notebook is divided into two parts. The first half reprints the transcript of a radio documentary on cable television, one in a series of five MATRIX radio programs produced by the Network Project in 1974. It includes discussions of planning for the new technology and of its present control by corporate conglomerates, and forecasts a…

The 1973 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) handbook covers the activities and state of the BBC. It first presents a profile of the BBC's first 50 years and of the awards presented to the BBC. The television activities of the BBC are discussed next, including its television service, world television, television enterprises, television film…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) outlines in this pamphlet the respective roles of the broadcast station, the FCC, and the concerned citizen in the establishment and preservation of quality broadcasting services. Procedures available to the citizen are described and practical advice concerning their use is offered in the hope that it…

The tradition of self-publishing is represented in this book, which describes the publishing adventures of 26 writers who have sold up to hundreds of thousands of copies of their works. Included are a winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, a cookbook author, a literary agent, a playwright, authors of instructional books, minority-group…

Educational institutions were among the pioneers in the development of radio broadcasting. By 1938, over 300 colleges reported offering at least one course in radio. In more recent times the surveys compiled by Harold Niven for the "Journal of Broadcasting" show a continued interest in broadcasting courses. The trend is toward Communications or…

The primary objectives of the study reported in this book was the identification and analysis of major factors that accounted for the quantity and proportion of news and public affairs programing shown on commercial television, and to explain why certain types of programs were far more frequently aired than were others. The problem and research…

Listing over 700 references, the purpose of this bibliography is to selectively outline the main history and development over 50 years of British broadcasting--its art and technique, the people who have shaped its policies and programs, and its impact on society. Entries are listed under categories such as general; history; constitution, control…

The president of a leading public television station presents his views on the institutional nature of commercial and especially public television. In particular, he contends that the reliance of public television on government support, which is contingent on governmental judgments of objectivity and balance, is at least as inimical to the basic…

Cable television's future in urban settings is discussed in the context of alternative media capable of serving similar markets with similar programing. In addition to cable television, other transmission networks such as the telephone network, radio and television broadcasting, microwave networks, domestic satellites, and recording media are…

This report projects employment by industry for 1980, in order to provide a framework for an occupational outlook program. Included are detailed projections of the labor force, aggregate and industry demand, output, employment, and occupational projections. A 4.3 percent growth rate is projected for gross national product, reflecting an increased…

The involvement of speculative activities in real estate transfers in central cities where racial composition is changing has been the center of controversy in a number of cities. This paper is a statistical description of the scope of the operations and some of the effects as measured by demographic data. The site of the study was Baltimore,…

This collection of case studies, based on factual situations which have challenged broadcast managers in recent years, is designed to stimulate thinking about and solving of "real world" problems in commercial radio and television operations. Topics of a serious, long-run nature include enlarging the radio audience; station revenue and economy;…

The Aerospace Materials Information Center (AMIC) Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program was evaluated by an interview technique after one year of operation. The data base for the SDI consists of the periodic document index records input to the AMIC system. The users are 63 engineers, scientists, and technical administrators at the…