Overview
- Considers how Australian audiences have consumed and engaged with broadcast media over the last century
- Focuses on radio since the 1920s and television since the 1950s, covering both public and commercial broadcasters
- Contributes to international histories of media audiences, as well as feeding into the growing field of audience studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media (PSHM)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
This lively and accessible book charts how Australian audiences have engaged with radio and television since the 1920s. Ranging across both the commercial and public service broadcasting sectors, it recovers and explores the lived experiences of a wide cross-section of Australian listeners and viewers. Offering new perspectives on how audiences have responded to broadcast content, and how radio and television stations have been part of the lives of Australians, over the past one hundred years, this book invites us into the dynamic world created for children by the radio industry, traces the operations of radio and television clubs across Australia, and uncovers the workings of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s viewers’ advisory committees. It also opens up the fan mail received by Australian broadcasting stations and personalities, delves into the complaints files of regulators, and teases out the role of participants and studio audiences in popular matchmaking programs.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers
Book Subtitle: Historical Perspectives
Authors: Bridget Griffen-Foley
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54637-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54636-6Published: 30 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54639-7Published: 01 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54637-3Published: 29 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6575
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 167
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural History, Social History, History, general, Australasian Culture