Institutions, states, and international broadcasting

Nelson Ribeiro

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Institutions, states, and international broadcasting

Nelson Ribeiro^*

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This chapter examines the role of states in funding, influencing, and controlling international broadcasting, and the relationships which developed between states and broadcasting institutions in different parts of the wireless world. It argues that we should not draw a false dichotomy between ‘independent’ and ‘state controlled’ international broadcasting. In reality, all broadcasters operated under some degree of state influence. The difference was one of degrees, and the focus for historians should be upon the varied mechanisms used by civil servants to control and direct international broadcasting institutions, overtly or covertly. The chapter focuses on state mechanisms for controlling international broadcasting in Nazi Germany, the USSR, Britain, and the US, and in colonial and post-colonial states in the Global South. Case studies examine British colonial broadcasting in the 1940s and Radio Free Europe after 1989.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The wireless world
Subtitle of host publication	global histories of international radio broadcasting
Editors	Simon J. Potter, David Clayton, Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Nelson Ribeiro, Rebecca Scales, Andrea Stanton
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	3
Pages	70-92
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9780192864987
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864987.003.0003
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022

Keywords

Anti-colonialism
Britain
Decolonization
Germany
Imperialism
International broadcasting
Radio Free Europe
State power
US
USSR

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Institutions, states, and international broadcasting. / Ribeiro, Nelson.

The wireless world: global histories of international radio broadcasting. ed. / Simon J. Potter; David Clayton; Friederike Kind-Kovacs; Vincent Kuitenbrouwer; Nelson Ribeiro; Rebecca Scales; Andrea Stanton. Oxford University Press, 2022. p. 70-92.

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