Commercial Broadcasting Pioneer : The WEAF Experiment, 1922-1926 / William Peck Banning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banning, William Peck, author.

Series:

Publication of the Business Historical Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York. Radio station WEAF.

New York.

Radio broadcasting--United States.

Radio broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, charts.

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

BUSINESS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

TABLES AND CHARTS

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

A CONDENSED WEAF CHRONOLOGY

PART I. THE GENESIS OF BROADCASTING, 1915-1921

CHAPTER I. EARLY BELL SYSTEM EXPERIMENTATION

CHAPTER II. TUBE PATENT LICENSING ARRANGEMENTS

CHAPTER III. THE STAGE IS SET

CHAPTER IV. THE " TOLL BROADCASTING" IDEA

PART II THE BIRTH OF WEAF, 1922

CHAPTER V. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WBAY

CHAPTER VI. WBAY BECOMES WEAF

CHAPTER VII. PROGRAM EXPERIMENTS AT WALKER STREET

CHAPTER VII. "HELLO, ENGLAND"

PART III. POLICIES AND PROGRESS, 1923

CHAPTER IX. PATENT INFRINGEMENT PROBLEMS

CHAPTER Χ. WEAF AT 195 BROADWAY

CHAPTER XI. EARLY NETWORK EXPERIMENTS

CHAPTER XII. WCAP: A SECOND EXPERIMENTAL STATION

PART IV. MILESTONES ALONG THE WAY, 1924

CHAPTER XIII. EARLY EPISODES OF 1924

CHAPTER XIV. RESOLVING THE PATENT SITUATION

CHAPTER XV. NETWORK BROADCASTING MADE PRACTICAL

CHAPTER XVI. THE ARMY TESTS THE BELL SYSTEM

PART V. THE TRAIL IS BLAZED, 1925-1926

CHAPTER XVII. NETWORK EXPANSION

CHAPTER XVIII. ANOTHER DEFENSE TEST DAY

CHAPTER XIX. THE SALE OF WEAF

INDEX

Maps

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-28054-7

OCLC:

1013936116