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" Broadcasting Faith: "
Noell, David A.
John, Richard R
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1113926
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TLpq2395309356
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John, Richard R
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Noell, David A.
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Broadcasting Faith:\ Noell, David A.John, Richard R
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Columbia University
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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244
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| Abstract
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Between 1927 and 1987, American broadcast regulators undertook a project for radio. The project pursued multiple goals: to allocate wavelengths, to hold stations accountable to the public interest, to restrict prejudicial content, to protect domestic wavelengths from international signal interference, to sustain these policies over time with the advent of new media, and to evangelize the American way of life abroad. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the State Department, as the primary institutions responsible for developing this American system of radio, addressed several challenges. Domestically, the FCC resolved the free speech questions of the time by resisting government ownership of radio stations, but regulating the airwaves in the “public interest, convenience, and necessity.” Internationally, the State Department set up radio stations to broadcast around the world. Religion played a primary role in the aims of this project - domestically, that every listener would receive uplifting faith content and internationally, that the world would know of American religiosity.
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American history
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Broadcasting
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Communication
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Public policy
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Radio
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Religion
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