Broadcast Regulation and Investigations
Arbuckle, Mark R. “Herbert Hoover’s National Radio Conferences and the Origin of Public Interest Content Regulation of United States Broadcasting: 1922-1925.” PhD dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2001.
Bates, Stephen. “The Wiz in the Witch Hunt: Milton Stewart, the FCC, and the FBI.” American Journalism 39:1 (2022): 27-50.
Bauer, A.J. “Propaganda in the Guise of News: Fulton Lewis Jr. and the Origins of the Fairness Doctrine.” Radical History Review 141 (October 2021): 7-29.
Baughman, James L. Television’s Guardians: The FCC and the Politics of Programming, 1958-1967. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Baughman, James L. “Minow’s Viewers: Understanding the Response to the ‘Vast Wasteland’ Address.” Federal Communications Law Journal 55:3 (May 2003):449-458.
Benjamin, Louise. “Working it Out Together: Radio Policy from Hoover to the Radio Act of 1927.” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 42 (Spring 1998): 221-236.
Benjamin, Louise. M. Freedom of the Air and the Public Interest: First Amendment Rights in Broadcasting to 1935. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
Bensman, Marvin R. The Beginning of Broadcast Regulation in the Twentieth Century. Jefferson: McFarland, 2000.
Berkman, Dave. “The ‘Blue Book’ and Charles Siepmann- as Reported in Broadcasting Magazine.” American Journalism 2:1 (1985): 37-48.
Beyersdorf, Frank. “Freedom of Communication: Visions and Realities of Postwar Telecommunication Orders in the 1940s.” Journal of Policy History 27:3 (2015): 492-520.
Brinson, Susan L. “Frieda Hennock: FCC Activist and the Campaign for Educational Television, 1948-1951.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 18:3 (August 1998): 411-429.
Brinson, Susan L. “War on the Homefront in World War II: The FCC and the House Committee on Un-American Activities.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 21:1 (March 2001): 63-75.
Bowman, Michael. “Immoral or Otherwise Offensive Matter: Took Gathings’ 1952 Investigation of Broadcasting.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 75:1 (Spring 2016): 47-61.
Coase, Ronald. “The Federal Communications Commission.” Journal of Law and Economics 2 (October 1959): 1-40.
Dempsey, John Mark, and Eric Gruver. “Government Control of Radio Communication: The 1918 Debate.” Journal of Radio & Audio Media 26:2 (2019): 284-298.
Donahue Carter, Hugh. The Battle to Control Broadcast News: Who Owns the First Amendment? Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.
Edwardson, Mickie. “James Lawrence Fly, the FBI, and Wiretapping.” Historian 61:2 (Winter 1999): 361-381.
Edwardson, Mickie. “The FCC’s War Problems Division: Partner in a Forgotten Blacklist.” Journal of Radio Studies 6:2 (1999): 270-286.
Farabaugh, Patrick. “Carl McIntire and His Crusade against the Fairness Doctrine.” PhD dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2010.
Flannery, Gerald V. Commissioners of the FCC, 1927-1994. Lanham: University Press of America, 1995.
Foust, James C. “So Vivid a Crossroads: The FCC And Broadcast Allocation, 1934-1939.” Journal of Radio and Audio Media 20:1 (2013): 87-101.
Friedrich, Carl J., and Evelyn Sternberg. “Congress and the Control of Radio-Broadcasting- I.” American Political Science Review 37:5 (October 1943): 797-818.
Friedrich, Carl J., and Evelyn Sternberg. “Congress and the Control of Radio-Broadcasting- II.” American Political Science Review 37:6 (December 1943): 1014-1026.
Godfrey, Donald G. “Senator Dill and the 1927 Radio Act.” Journal of Broadcasting 23, no. 4 (1979): 477-489.
Goodman, Mark, and Mark Gring. “The Radio Act of 1927: Progressive Ideology, Epistemology, and Praxis.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 3, no. 3 (2000): 397-418.
Grams, John A. “An Analysis of FCC Actions in the Licensing of Newspaper-Affiliated Broadcasting Stations to 1970.” PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1973.
Hazlett, Thomas. “The Rational of U.S. Regulation of the Broadcast Spectrum.” Journal of Law and Economics 33 (April 1990): 133-175.
Hazlett, Thomas W. The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
Ismail, Sherille. “Transformative Choices: A Review of 70 Years of FCC Decisions.” Journal of Information Policy 1 (2011): 6-35.
Krasnow, Erwin G., Laurence D. Longley, and Herbert A. Terry. The Politics of Broadcast Regulation. 3ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
Levi, Lili. “The Four Eras of FCC Public Interest Regulation.” Administrative Law Review 60:4 (Fall 2008): 813-859.
Lippmann, Stephen M. “Forms, Frames, and Frequencies: Regulatory Capture and its Effect on the United States Broadcasting Industry, 1920-1950.” PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2005.
Mora, G. Cristina. “Regulating Immigrant Media and Instituting Boundaries: The FCC and Spanish-Language Television, 1960-1990.” Latino Studies 9:2-3 (Summer 2011): 242-262.
Morrow, Robert W. “Nationalizing American Radio: Anti-Monopoly, Nationalism, and the First Alexander Bill, 1915-1917.” Journal of Radio and Audio Media 18:1 (May 2011): 17-32.
Noell, David A. “Broadcasting Faith: Regulating Radio from the New Era to the American Century.” PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2020.
Paglin, Max D., ed. A Legislative History of the Communications Act of 1934. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Pennock, Pam. “Televising Sin: Efforts to Restrict the Televised Advertisement of Cigarettes and Alcohol in the United States, 1950s to 1980s.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 25:4 (October 2005): 619-636.
Phipps, Steven P. “Unlicensed Broadcasting and the Federal Radio Commission: The 1930 George W. Fellowes Challenge.” Journalism Quarterly 68:4 (Winter 1991): 823-828.
Pickard, Victor. “The Battle over the FCC Blue Book: Determining the Role of Broadcast Media in a Democratic Society, 1945–48.” Media, Culture, and Society 33 (March 2011): 171–191.
Pickard, Victor. America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Ray, William B. FCC: The Ups and Downs of Radio-TV Regulation. Ames: Iowa State University Press 1990.
Rivera-Sanchez, Milagros. “Developing an Indecency Standard: The Federal Communications Commission and the Regulation of Offensive Speech.” Journalism History 20: 1 (Spring 1994): 3-14.
Rivera-Sanchez, Milagros. “The Origins of the Ban on ‘Obscene, Indecent, or Profane’ Language of the Radio Act of 1927.” Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs 149 (February 1995): 1-33.
Rowland, Willard D. “The Meaning of ‘The Public Interest’ in Communications Policy, Part I: Its Origins in State and Federal Regulation.” Communication Law & Policy 2 (1997): 309-328.
Rowland, Willard D. “The Meaning of ‘The Public Interest’ in Communications Policy, Part II: Its Implementation in Early Broadcast Law and Regulation.” Communication Law & Policy 2 (1997): 363-394.
Powe, Lucas A. American Broadcasting and the First Amendment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Schiffman, James R. “Undervaluing Mutual: The FCC’s Missed Opportunity to Restructure Radio Broadcasting in the New Deal Era.” Journal of Radio and Audio Media 24: 2 (November 2017): 302-319.
Selby, Dawn. “Nielsen and the Networks: Scientific Capitalism, Broadcasting, and Congress, 1956-1958.” Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 34:4 (December 2014): 586-598.
Shepperd, Josh. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Simmons, Steven, J. The Fairness Doctrine and the Media. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
Slotten, Hugh Richard. “Rainbow in the Sky: FM Radio, Technical Superiority, and Regulatory Decision Making.” Technology and Culture 37:4 (October 1996): 686-720.
Slotten, Hugh. Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States 1920–1960. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Smead, Elmer M. Freedom of Speech by Radio and Television. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1959.
Smith, F. Leslie. “Quelling Radio’s Quacks: The FCC’s First Public-Interest Programming Campaign.” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 71:3 (1994): 594-608.
Smith, Reed W. “Regulating the Regulators: The Conflict between the Congressional Oversight Subcommittee and the fcc.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 54 (April 2010): 194–211.
Sylvain, Oliver. “Domesticating the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927.” PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2010.
Tabbanor, Michelle A. “Hold Your Liquor: NBC and Alcohol Advertising After Prohibition.” Journal of Radio & Audio Media 26:2 (2019): 270-283.
Tillinghast, Charles H. American Broadcast Regulation and the First Amendment: Another Look. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.
Toro, Amy L. “Standing Up for Listeners’ Rights: A History of Public Participation at the Federal Communications Commission.” PhD dissertation, University of California, 2000.
Tworek, Heidi S.J. “The Savior of the Nation?: Regulating Radio in the Interwar Period.” Journal of Policy History 27:3 (2015): 465-491.
Vos, Tim P. “A Cultural Explanation for Early Broadcast Policy: Professionalism, Voluntarism, and U.S. Broadcast Networks.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 54: 2 (2010): 179-193.
Skip to content