Changing Stations

Name: Changing Stations
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A History of Commercial Radio in Australia

By Bridget Griffen-Foley

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Changing Stations offers the first comprehensive national history of commercial radio in Australia, charting its journey from the pioneering days of the 1920s through to the dawn of digital radio in 2009. The book travels across cities and towns—from Sydney to Adelaide, Launceston to Cairns—exploring the complex evolution of radio regulation, ownership, and networking. It delves into the tension between national and local broadcasting, the shift from amateur efforts to professional podcasting, and memorable controversies such as 'payola' and 'cash for comment'. Iconic broadcasters like George Edwards, Grace Gibson, and John Laws feature alongside overlooked pioneers, painting a vivid picture of Australian radio's cultural impact.
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Format: Hardback

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This detailed historical study will appeal to readers interested in Australian media history, broadcasting, and cultural studies, as well as radio enthusiasts keen to understand the development of commercial radio across the nation.

Immediate, intimate, portable and inexpensive, radio is the most pervasive medium in Australia. Changing Stations is the first full-scale, national history of commercial radio in Australia, from the experiments and schemes of the 1920s through to the eve of the introduction of digital radio in 2009.

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Immediate, intimate, portable and inexpensive, radio is the most pervasive medium in Australia. Changing Stations is the first full-scale, national history of commercial radio in Australia, from the experiments and schemes of the 1920s through to the eve of the introduction of digital radio in 2009.

This sweeping national study moves from Sydney to Adelaide, Launceston to Cairns, Broken Hill to Albany. In tracing the often contentious evolution of regulation, ownership and networking from the amateur experiments of the 1920s to podcasting in the 2000s, it considers producing and listening, the national and the local, the mass and the personal, 'payola' and 'cash for comment'.

The iconic names of commercial radio, including George Edwards, Grace Gibson, Jack Davey, Bob Dyer, Bob Rogers, Norman Banks, Brian White, John Laws and Alan Jones are here, together with lesser known figures, such as the first woman cricket broadcaster in Australia and the station manager who privately dismissed listeners as 'morons'.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780868409184

Publisher: UNSW Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 November 2009

Country: Australia

Imprint: UNSW Press

Illustration: 34 illustrations

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 43.0mm

Width: 147.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 645g

Pages: 530

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About the Author

Bridget Griffen-Foley is an associate professor, an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, and the director of the Center for Media History at Macquarie University. Widely recognized as Australia's leading media historian, she is the author of The House of Packer, Party Games, and Sir Frank Packer.

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