Annotated Bibliography

Anonymous (Feb 7, 2000) Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers  Public Broadcasting Policy Base, A service of Current Newspaper and the National Public Broadcasting Archives. Retrieved February 7, 2009 from http://www.current.org/pbpb/nixon/nixon69.html  A fascinating account drawn from correspondence between the Nixon White House and public broadcasters in the early days of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Barnouw, E. (1966) A Tower in Babel. A History of Broadcasting in the United States. Volume I – 1933. Oxford University Press.  An anecdote laden, lively chronicle of the early days of radio.

Barnouw, E. (1968) The Golden Web. A History of Broadcasting in the United States. Volume II – 1933 to 1953. Oxford University Press.  The focus shifts to television.

Barnouw, E. (1970) The Image Empire. A History of Broadcasting in the United States. Volume III – from 1953. Oxford University Press. A chronicle of the golden age of television.

Benkler, Y. (2006) The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press. The essential read on the transformative potential of digital media. Turgidly written.

Bower, J. Christensen, C.  (January – February 1995) Disruptive Technologies Catching the Wave Harvard Business Review p.43 – 53. Retried electronically January 24, 2009 from https://eres.lib.washington.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=4174&page=docs#. A brilliant analysis of why incumbent businesses often fail to anticipate the changes which sweep them away.

Christensen, C., Anthony, S., Roth, E. (2004) Seeing What’s Next Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School Press 2004. Retrieved electronically January 20, 2008 from https://eres.lib.washington.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=4174&page=docs#. How to use theory to anticipate the future.

Clark, J., Aufderheide, P. (February 2009) Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics, Center for Social Media, School of Communications, American University. Retrieved electronically February 20th from http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/public_media_2_0_dynamic_engaged_publics/. A passionate call for public broadcasters to embrace new media.

Garfield, B. (February 20, 2009)  Getting Desperate. On the Media from WNYC New York and National Public Radio. Retrieved electronically February 23, 2009 from  http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/02/20/04. An interview with founder of Kachingle, a widget for news providers and bloggers to put on their web sites. It’s a virtual tip jar to raise micro-contributions.

Hirschorn, M, (March 2009) The Future is Cheese. Why the networks are surrendering prime time to Jay Leno and the Lord of the Dance. The Atlantic. P. 39 – 41.  Sharp analysis of how the web is eviscerating the network television programming model.

Jacobs, P. (Feb 20, 2009) Presentation What are People Actually Doing: The Jacobs Tech Poll Integrated Media Association Conference IMA Conference 2009. Video presentation retrieved electronically February 21, 2009 from
http://www.integratedmedia.org/nav.cfm?cat=15&subcat=116&subsub=196. Jacobs surveyed 30 thousand public radio listeners to find out their media preferences. Satellite radio and HD radio – not so much. Web- big time.

Janssen, M.  (October 31, 2005) Audience growth stalls for public radio system. Current. Retrieved electronically February 2009 from http://www.current.org/audience/aud0520radio.shtml. The story documents the beginning of a trend which continues to today. Current is the newspaper for public radio and television.

Janssen, M. (Sept. 24, 2007) Multicasts: Betting to Build HD Radio Audience, Current. Retrieved electronically March 14, 2007 from http://www.current.org/tech/tech0717fmmulticast.shtml. An overview of public radio station efforts to grow the audience through HD services.

Kohut, A. et alia (December 2009) Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Outlet. Pew Research Center for People and the Press. Retried electronically February 20, 2009 from http://people-press.org/report/479/internet-overtakes-newspapers-as-news-source. Stark evidence how quickly web news source draw the audience.

Mitchell, J. (2005) Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio.  Praeger Westport Connecticut London 2005. An opinionated perspective from someone present at the creation.

Ostroff, D., Wright, J. (1998) Perspectives on Radio and Television. Telecommunications in the United States  Fourth Edition Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. Mahwah, New Jersey London. p. 583, 584 retrieved electronically February 6, 2008 from http://books.google.com/books?id=6TB4bDZ7KxkC&pg=PA583&lpg=PA583&dq=history+of+non-commercial+radio&source=web&ots=n-sfxyg4nH&sig=9iAqFf_4Fb36HXh4YYAt07xB9J4&hl=en&ei=RSONScH_CpGUsAO6yPT-CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA584,M1

People Using Radio Report (2008) Arbitron. Retrieved electronically March 14, 2009 from http://wargod.arbitron.com/scripts/ndb/ndbradio2.asp. Arbitron is the ratings service for radio. This web site is chock full of useful information about radio listening.

Radios (per capita) (most recent) by country (2003) Nationmaster.com chart taken from the CIA Sourcebook 2003. Retrieved electronically February 23, 2009 from http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/med_rad_percap-media-radios-per-capita

Reynolds, R. (November 21, 2008) David Brewster Interview on Crosscut becoming a non-profit. The Conversation.  KUOW.  Retrieved electronically February 21, 2009 from http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=16363. Brewster has found the for-profit model for regional news aggregation site unsustainable. He explains how he thinks non-profit status can grow the site.

Sefton, D. (February 17, 2009) CPB: System revenue may drop $418 million in fiscal 2009, Current. Retrieved electronically February 21, 2009 from http://www.current.org/funding/funding0903recession.shtml.  An overview of public broadcasting fiscal woes.

Sirius, XM merger completed, creating US satellite radio giant., (July 29, 2008) AFP. Retrieved electronically February 15, 2009 from http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gWpqqvwgW00Q9TWlFXCqFL7ccIxw

Sorkin, A., Kouwe, Z. (February 10, 2009) Sirius XM Prepares for Possible Bankruptcy, New York Times. Retrieved electronically February 21, 2009 from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/technology/companies/11radio.html?ref=technology

Thomas, T., Clifford, T. (June 2008) Individual Giving to Public Radio Stations, Station Resource Group. Retrieved electronically March 14, 2009 from http://www.srg.org/funding/Giving.html. This is a thorough analysis of listener giving patterns from the leaders of the Station Resource Group, an association of primarily major market public radio stations. They have many other useful reports on the current thinking among public broadcasters.

Winston, B. (1998) Media Technology and Society. A History: from the Telegraph to the Internet. Routledge.  To Winston what some call a media revolution is an evolution with fundamental continuity in Western civilization.