The quieted voice: the rise and demise of localism in American radio

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hilliard, Robert L. (author) and Keith, Michael C. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24025
    Subject Term:
    broadcasting, government, government policies, history, information issues, information needs, networks, private sector, radio, radio programs, radio stations, rural areas, rural people, trends, concentration, commercial firms, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
    Notes:
    242 pages., Authors examine how "the short-term financial gains from consolidation in radio have resulted in the demise of local radio services to individual communities, concomitantly resulting in the not-so-long-term possible demise of radio itself."

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