Regulating the Future : Broadcasting Technology and Governmental Control.

Cover -- Regulating the Future -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- AMSTEREOIZATION -- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- Chapter 1 Learning from Broadcasting's Past -- FCC PROCEDURE -- RADIO AND TV HISTORY -- FM Stereo -- Television -- TV's Onslaught and Radio's Recovery -- Chapter 2 AM Stereo and the Marketplace -- AM STEREO'S ORIGINS -- AM Broadcasters Want Stereo -- Deregulation of Radio Inquiry -- FM AND AM MOVE TOWARD PARITY -- THE FCC'S "TENTATIVE" STANDARD -- Reconsideration of the Magnavox Decision -- Deregulation of Radio Docket -- THE AM STEREO MARKETPLACE: A BOLD NEW STEP -- Defending the Marketplace Decision -- AM Stereo Debuts On-air -- AM Stereo System Attrition -- Chapter 3 AM Stereo: The Wrath of Kahn -- IMPROVING AM RADIO -- NAB and AM Improvement -- KAHN, MOTOROLA, AND THE AM STEREO MARKETPLACE -- AM Stereo Promotion -- Kahn Presses Onward -- THE TEXAR PETITION -- Texar Files Its Petition -- Press Broadcasting's Multimode Receiver Petition -- NTIA's Marketplace Report -- FCC Denies All AM Stereo Petitions -- AM STEREO REVISITED: THE 1993 SYSTEM STANDARD DECISION -- Chapter 4 Digital Audio Broadcasting: A New Kind of Radio -- Digital Perceptions -- DAB Systems -- Broadcasters Respond to DAB -- IBOC DAB -- Digital Compression -- Chapter 5 Border-to-Border DAB -- The FCC's DARS NPRM -- SDARS and Pioneer's Preference -- Canadian DAB and Amstereoization -- DAB Field Testing -- DARS Reply Comments -- USADR'S RULE-MAKING PETITION -- USADR Incorporates -- Responses to USADR's Petition -- SDARS: Sirius and XM -- The DAB NPRM -- USADR and DRE Combine Forces -- Do Broadcasters and Consumers Want DAB? -- Chapter 6 Advanced Television from HDTV to DTV -- DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF U.S. HDTV -- FCC's ATV Rule-making Proceeding -- ATRC -- DTV Spectrum -- Digital Technology -- Japanese HDTV.

ATV Systems -- HDTV's Cost -- THIS IS A TEST -- Second Channel Simulcasting -- The "Grand Alliance" System -- TELEVISION AUDIO -- MTS -- The Final Piece of the Grand Alliance Puzzle -- DTV Flexible Use -- Remember AM Stereo -- Grand Alliance DTV Standard -- DTV's Fifth FNPRM -- Progressive versus Interlaced Scanning -- Chapter 7 The Grand Alliance and the Introduction of DTV -- DTV's Fifth and Sixth Report and Order -- DTV's Coming-Out Party -- Reaction to DTV Channel Allotment -- The Fifth Report and Order -- The Sixth Report and Order -- Cable and DTV -- DTV's Cost -- Deadly DTV Interference -- DTV Progress in the United States and the World -- DTV for Sale -- DTV's Official Debut -- COFDM and 8-VSB Revisited -- Do Consumers Want DTV and/or HDTV? -- Will DTV's 18 Formats Impact Consumer Acceptance? -- Chapter 8 The FCC's Changing Regulatory Role -- FCC PROCEDURE AND POLICY -- Marketplace Lessons -- BROADCAST TECHNOLOGY -- CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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