The Siginificance of Validating the History of Public Broadcasting in the U.S. in the Internet age

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Abstract

This paper illustrates the siginificance of studying the history of the U.S. radio broadcasting from 1910 to 1940, and a reason why it is relevant to conduct a comparative study of the media history between Japan and the U.S. for a further analaysis on the role of media in the Internet age today. The result thus far suggests that an underlying problem of media industries today was formed in the era when the commercial radio broadcasting emerged in the U.S; therefore validating its history will build common analytical perspective on today's media in Japan and beyond.