Europe - On Air

Abstract

Tables 3.1 -List of inter-continental circuits spreading out from Europe, 1935-1936 128 4.1 -Excessive favors to countries according to the USSR in the draft Montreux Plan, 1939 151 4.2 -Commercial broadcasting stations in Europe in the interwar years 164 5.1 -Signatories of the International Convention for the Use of Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace in the course of 1936 215 5.2 -Ratification and accession to the International Convention for the Use of

Low Cycle Fatigue of Alloy 617 at 850 °C and 950 °C

“…The VHTR concept is a graphite-moderated, helium-cooled, prismatic or pebble-bed, thermal neutron spectrum reactor with an outlet temperature of 750 to 950 °C and either a steam generator (SG) or intermediate heat exchanger (IHX) [1][2][3]. The VHTR concept is a graphite-moderated, helium-cooled, prismatic or pebble-bed, thermal neutron spectrum reactor with an outlet temperature of 750 to 950 °C and either a steam generator (SG) or intermediate heat exchanger (IHX) [1][2][3].…”

Securing the aural border: fieldwork and interference in post-war BBC audio nationalism

“…By carving up and portioning out the ether, the IBu sought to counter interference and contribute to european peace. 17 But these technical regimes served to emphasize national broadcasting spaces, and delegitimize international broadcasting. 18 The end of World War II brought a renewed enthusiasm for international broadcasting.…”

“…The British government had torpedoed plans for a european Broadcasting Alliance, intended to develop a european consciousness by enabling listeners across the continent to follow international events via a web of interconnected Downloaded by [195.154.90.122] at 10: 55 28 March 2016 landlines, as the end of war neared. 87 Shortly afterwards, the government decided that the BBC's overseas broadcasting was vital to Britain's cold war foreign policy, and subtly reworked international frequency plans so as not to hinder its own international broadcasting, while superficially continuing with inter-war models of national service broadcasting. 88 And British policymakers teamed up with their American counterparts to denigrate Soviet jamming of BBC broadcasts, positing the freedom to listen as a universal human right.…”

“…91 But Radio Luxembourg had been accommodated, reluctantly, into international frequency plans, and British hostilities were dropped. 92 Instead, the problem was now considered to be international stations that broke with technical regimes, compromising BBC reception and control of national listening.…”

The role of British newspapers in framing the public perception and experience of European radio 1930 to 1939

“…In her book, Europe -On Air, she focuses on the connection between a political idea of Europe and the attempts by the International Broadcasting Union (IBU), to encourage non-commercial forms of European broadcasting. 12 Lommer's analysis is focused on radio, its technologies, infrastructure, organisation and output rather than on the way newspapers contextualised radio output for the audience and their role in mediating European radio into the national environment. Though, she does briefly mention how Dutch listings magazines 'show us how transnational activities and visions of Europe actually found their way into peoples' homes'.…”