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Hilmes, Michele

doi:10.4324/9780203843208

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“…Hilmes has considered a number of cross-visits, including visits to North America by that paragon of British public service broadcasting, John Reith, who, in addition to a long-running series of epistolary exchanges with then-Head of NBC, Merlin Aylesworth, undertook more than one visit to the USA and Canada. 8 I will now extend this valuable work by exploring a foundational moment during the 1950s that concerns an altercation between two significant figures in the history of US and British television.…”

Section: A Discursive Altercationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…In some ways, Jacob's claim is reminiscent of the strength of conviction (if not arrogance) of a John Reith, who, as Hilmes has observed, during a 1931 visit to the USA delivered a speech before the National Advisory Council on Education by Radio (NACRE), predicting that 'it would only be a matter of time before the US would come around to adopting British structure [sic]'. 29 McConnaughey's comments received an oblique reply, but Weaver's train simile evidently could not go without repeated, explicit rebuttals; the goading on British home turf, at an event celebrating the beginning of commercial competition for the BBC no less, too much to let it go. Jacob challenged the ideological position represented by Weaver as follows:…”

Section: A Discursive Altercationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Crossing Broadcasters: The Transatlantic Exchange Between Sylvester ‘Pat’ Weaver and Sir Ian Jacob, 1955–1956

Knox¹

2017

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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Section: A Discursive Altercationmentioning

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Crossing Broadcasters: The Transatlantic Exchange Between Sylvester ‘Pat’ Weaver and Sir Ian Jacob, 1955–1956

Knox¹

2017

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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“…By the late 1930s, educational radio had established a strong presence and received significant financial support from private foundations, notably the Rockefeller Foundation. 23 This worked out well because MacLeish realized that the RRP programs had to be aired over these networks if they were going to reach the masses. 24 Of all forms of mass media, radio was the one that could reach the widest audience possible for the ideas expressed in RRP programs.…”

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Documentary Radio and the Radical Origins of Public History

Donaldson¹

2019

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The origin story of public history in the United States dates this profession, practice, and field of study back to the social movements and social/cultural turn of academic history of the 1960s and 70s, directly tying the emergence of professional public history to the political ethos of the New Left. However, exploring earlier efforts in professional public-facing historical work reveals the formative influence of the Old Left on the various fields that would come to fall under the purview of public history. This article traces that connection specifically through the Radio Research Project (RRP), a large-scale series of history-oriented programs produced by the Library of Congress beginning in 1941 that were designed to educate Americans in US history, to encourage citizens to embrace civic ideals such as cultural and political democracy, and to thwart the spread of fascism. Disconnecting the rise of public history from its perceived origins in the New Left through exploring programs like the RRP not only reveals a longer history of the profession, but also challenges accepted interpretations of the types of political and social views that provide the historical foundation of contemporary practice.

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“…Hilmes has noted that in the subsequent discussions between the broadcasters over the summer 'nowhere … does the idea of broadcasting as a mission of public uplift and education appear'. 58 The 18…”

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“…NOTES 1 Seaton, "Reith and the Denial of Politics", 104. See also for instance Coase,British Broadcasting,23;Boyle,Only The Wind Will Listen,Briggs,The Birth of Broadcasting,[58][59]…”

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Marconi proposes: Why it’s time to rethink the birth of the BBC

Prosser¹

2018

Media History

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New evidence requires us to revise our understanding of the birth of British broadcasting in 1922. The Post Office deployed misleading ideas about the development of commercial broadcasting in America and cemented the case for public funding and a ban on advertising. However, the idea for a single broadcaster came not from the Postmaster General but from the Marconi Company at a key meeting in May 1922 for which a transcript has emerged. It shows that ideas about public service broadcasting predate John Reith's arrival by several months. This meeting laid the foundations of broadcasting in Britain, envisaging a single broadcaster operating at arms-length from government, providing a 'public service' with national content shared between regional stations, funded by a licence fee. We can identify the exact moment the BBC was conceived. It was not the Post Office that proposed the BBC, but Godfrey Isaacs, the managing director of Marconi.

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Network Nations

Cited by 67 publications

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Crossing Broadcasters: The Transatlantic Exchange Between Sylvester ‘Pat’ Weaver and Sir Ian Jacob, 1955–1956

Crossing Broadcasters: The Transatlantic Exchange Between Sylvester ‘Pat’ Weaver and Sir Ian Jacob, 1955–1956

Documentary Radio and the Radical Origins of Public History

Marconi proposes: Why it’s time to rethink the birth of the BBC

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