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There is a move a foot to eliminate broadcast television. Are they serious? This is an assault on your right to recognise what is going on in your world.

In late 2009, U.S. TV broadcasters abruptly found themselves beneath attack by the mobile industry, after the new officers of the Federal Communications Commission started out asking for remarks on how to increase the frequencies available for the wireless industry. Some have proposed mixing the two together, on dissimilar channels that are already open (like white space), while other have proposed “repacking” galore stations and forcing them off sure channels, just a few years after the same thing was done (with out compensation to the broadcasters) in the Digital transition.

Marshal Mcluen, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Marshal Mcluen, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Walter Cronkite must be spinning in their graves over this latest attack on their industry. What is next? Will they want to eliminate radio broadcasting? Apparently we learned not one thing from the Third Reich. Control the media and keep the public in the dark with regards to what is genuinely going on. I am amazed that the broadcast industry has not made a louder hew and cry over this. There have been only a few commercials on the TV regarding this.

It us up to us to make sure that this insult to our right to be informed is not perpetrated on the American public. We ought to take the initiative and let congress recognise we will not stand for it.

I urge you to contact your representatives and let them recognise that this is unacceptable. It is bad sufficient that we had to buy new television sets or get a converter to be competent to watch TV, let us not grant this latest war on public broadcasting be lost by our inaction.

To find who your congressman is: go to http://www.house.gov/zip/ZIP2Rep.html

For your Senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Thank you.

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Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America is the original book-length study of one of the most distinguishable communications endeavors in U.S. history. It is the noteworthy account of how the nation’s most exploited minority group overcame adversity by embracing the airwaves. Through their own radio and television stations, American Indians have found a way to keep their cultures and languages from perishing. This book examines the impetus behind the development of Native-run stations and how these stations operate today. It assesses the influence and affect of Native broadcasts in the Indigenous community and seeks to chronicle the formidable challenges confronting Indian broadcasters as they provide critical programming services to the often impoverished inhabitants of the nation’s remote reservations.

Review“Although of peculiar interest to Native American broadcasters, their audiences, and Native American studies specialists, this book affords an interesting, unexpected angle on a number of important, current issues of frequent interest. Keith has brought together valuable, elaborated historical selective information in regards to native broadcasting and firsthand accounts of the troubles and probabilities faced by native broadcasters. Politics, culture, and communicating are central topics in the current context of multiculturalism and high technology, and this book presents an interesting case study of a heap of basic issues. Upper-division undergrad and above.”–Choice

“Breaks primary new ground in communicating studies by shedding light on the “first minority” and it is growing use of electronic media. Keith provides a worthful service with this readable survey of a arousing and attention holding market, almost exclusively unknown outside of Native American circles. And it has currency in the political world given the debate on the future of funding for public broadcasting as numerous of these stations receive aid from CPB. Important reading supplying significant clear or deep perception by an expert observer.”–Communication Booknotes

“Little has been published regarding Native American broadcasting. There are a few scholarly articles and segments in books regarding ethnic broadcasting, but not one thing that compares with Signals in the Air. This book offers a readable history of Native broadcasting in the United States, together with somewhat elaborate profiles of person Native-owned stations that are in operation today. Signals in the Air offers a arousing and attention holding window into one little share of life in Indian Country. The book is well written and logically organized. This book is primary because it is the most current and finish piece of creative writing of recognized artisti value available on indigenous broadcasting in America.”–Journal Radio Studies

“With so much disinformation going out over the airwaves, Signals in the Air is a valuable contribution to the ethnic broadcasting industry.”–The Cape Codder

“…in light of recent federal cuts threatening public broadcasting, this book appears in particular relevant. This is a readable book and more or less of a breakthrough for the Native broadcasting industry, consonant with their views and struggle to cope with foriegn culture thrust upon them. It would be utile for classes in broadcasting history or in the social science study of Native Americans.”–Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

“This book is a substantial accomplishment and a welcome addition to the little list of publications on this subject. It gives those of us who work in the field a chance to see where we have come from and an probability to reflect on where we are headed.”–Mr. Frank Blythe Founding Member and Executive Director Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium

“Signals in the Air is a book that ICA and the Indigenous broadcast community helped manufacture with Michael Keith and one which we to the full or entire extent endorse.”–Mr. Ray Cook Executive Director Indigenous Communications ossociation

“It is not only a breakthrough . . . but it provides that group itself with information.”–Robert Hilliard Professor of Communications Emerson College

“ . . . Indeed a breakthrough. The theme is stirring and important.”–Mr. Norman Corwin “Radio’s Poet Laureate” and author of Norman Corwin’s Letters

“Information with regards to Native American broadcasting is exceedingly fixed and a book of this nature by an author of Mr. Keith’s stature will be of outstanding value to the broadcasting industry, and any student of broadcasting/history/social studies.”–Mr. Bruce DuMont President Museum of Broadcast Communications

About the AuthorMICHAEL C. KEITH is a fellow member of the Communication Department at Boston College.

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2 of 2 persons found the following review helpful.
Signals covers underrepresented topic
By B. Freeman
Perhaps it is as a result of the influx of newer media or the fact that it’s always been around for most of us, that we many times take radio for granted. And yet what a valuable resource the signals that permeate the ether may be. Take for example the role of radio in the Native American community. That’s precisely the subject of Keith’s book. I borrowed it from a professor of mine and am enjoying the read. It’s an interesting and necessary treatise on the underreported native broadcasters. If you love radio, exceptionally the kind that genuinely serves a community (that’s me!), and are at all into programming aspects, I commend you get the book.

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