Western Broadcasting Over the Iron Curtain

Western Broadcasting Over the Iron Curtain (1986) examines the development of broadcasting policy by Western democracies, levels of government control of policy, efforts by communist regimes to minimize the effects of western broadcasting, and Soviet and Eastern European audience opinions.

List of contents

1. The Real Masters of the Black Heavens: Western Broadcasters Over the Iron Curtain K.R.M. Short Part 1. North American Broadcasting Over the Iron Curtain 2. Radio Canada International and Broadcasting Over the Iron Curtain Frank Ward 3. International Broadcasting and US Political Realities Frank Shakespeare 4. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty in the Mid-1980s William A. Buell 5. The Voice Past: VOA, the USSR and Communist Europe Alan Heil 6. The Voice Present and Future: VOA, the USSR and Communist Europe Edward Mainland Part 2. European Broadcasting Over the Iron Curtain 7. The BBC External Services: Broadcasting to the USSR and Eastern Europe Peter Fraenkel 8. Deutsche Welle's Russian Service, 1962-85 Botho Kirsch 9. Deutschlandfunk: Broadcasting to East Germany and Eastern Europe Jürgen Reiss 10. Radio in the American Sector, RIAS Berlin Donald R. Browne 11. German Democratic Republic Censorship and West German Broadcasting Gerhard Wettig Part 3. Iron Curtain Audiences and Public Opinion 13. Public Opinion Assessment and Radio Free Europe's Effectiveness in Eastern Europe Mary McIntosh

Product details

• Authors: K.R.M. Short
• Assisted by: K.R.M. Short (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032603377
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3260337-7
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Radio, Eastern Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, Radio / Podcasts, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet