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> Sounds of Your Life, the history of Independent Radio in the UK, written
> by Tony Stoller, is the first comprehensive telling of the history of
> the unique experiment of Independent Radio, effectively from start to
> finish. Published on 17 May in the UK, it describes how independent
> radio came about in the Seventies, its fortunes and misfortunes in the
> succeeding two decades, and how it was replaced by commercial radio
> around the end of the century.
>
> Sounds of Your Life is a comprehensive political and administrative
> history. As well as being a definitive media reference book, it is also
> illustrates the wider changes across the whole of society which
> accompanied the UK's shift from a social to a market economy, and the
> failure of the hopes of the liberal consensus of the post-war years.
>
> The book is in three main sections, which follow an introduction
> reviewing the 50 years before the arrival of this alternative radio
> service in the UK. The first covers the design and implementation of
> Independent Local Radio (ILR) in the Seventies, including the political
> debates, and the efforts of the pioneer radio companies to launch a
> brand new medium. The second describes how ILR fared in the Eighties, as
> the independent approach became established, and the shift in aspiration
> towards a more market-based model following the pivotal Heathrow
> Conference and the impact of the Death on the Rock television programme
> on regulatory structures. The third relates the developments of the
> Nineties, including the arrival of Independent National Radio,
> controversy over licence awards, and the breaking of the mould of
> independent radio as it was replaced by commercial radio.
>
> Within these sections, there are specialist chapters on audience
> research, community radio, music copyright and digital radio. A
> postscript traces the final laying down of the aspirations of
> independent, public service radio in the modern era of commercial radio.
>
> *****
>
> Sounds of Your Life is published by John Libbey Publishing on 17 May
> 2010 at £22.50 (hardback). It is available from bookshops or direct from
> Marston Book Services Ltd, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4SD, England.
> Tel (direct orders): +44 (0)1235 465500; Fax: +44 (0)1235 465509;
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> *****
>
> Tony Stoller is a currently a visiting fellow at Bournemouth
> Universityıs Centre for Broadcasting History Research. He was Chief
> Executive of The Radio Authority from July 1995, until it was replaced
> by Ofcom at the end of 2003. He helped to set up the new regulator, as
> its External Relations Director, before retiring at the end of 2005. He
> was previously an official in the Radio Division of the Independent
> Broadcasting Authority, Director of the Association of Independent Radio
> Contractors, and Managing Director of Thames Valley Broadcasting Limited
> (Radio 210).
>
> Further information from: [log in to unmask]
>
> Book profile at http://www.johnlibbey.com/books_detail.php?area=med&ID=142
>
> *****
>
> TABLE OF CONTENTS
>
> Introduction
>
>
> Section I Prologue
>
> Chapter 1 The long and winding road 1898 1970s
>
>
>
> Section II Debate, design and implementation 1970 1979
>
> Chapter 2 Paving the way for ILR 1970 July 1972
>
> Chapter 3 Making a start. August 1972 October 1973
>
> Chapter 4 Turn your radio on. The first year of ILR
>
> Chapter 5 The pioneer years Summer 1974 Summer 1976
>
> Chapter 6 Is there anybody there? Audience research
>
> Chapter 7 Now we are nineteen Autumn 1976 1979
>
>
>
> Section III The independent radio experiment 1980 1989
>
> Chapter 8 Victories and losses 1979 1985
>
> Chapter 9 Doing well by doing good. Secondary rental and programme sharing
>
> Chapter 10 London Heathrow Calling. The Heathrow Conference and its impact
>
> Chapter 11 Left of the dial. The failure of community radio: 1965 1989
>
> Chapter 12 Changing the guard 1986 1989
>
> Chapter 13 Copyright wars. The long battle over music copyright
>
>
>
> Section IV Victory of the commercial model 1990 2003
>
> Chapter 14 Shadow and substance 1990
>
> Chapter 15 Classic, Talk and Virgin Independent National Radio: 1991 1994
>
> Chapter 16 Glad confident morning. ILR 1991 1993
>
> Chapter 17 Awards and re-awards. Licensing in London and beyond: 1993 1994
>
> Chapter 18 High summer 1994 1996
>
> Chapter 19 Challenging the regulator 1994 2000
>
> Chapter 20 Radio by numbers. Digital radio
>
> Chapter 21 Things can only get better. 1997 and all that
>
> Chapter 22 Weddings and wind-ups 1998 2000
>
> Chapter 23 RSLs and Access Radio. The strange triumph of the social
> engineers: 1990 2006
>
> Chapter 24 Breaking the mould 2000 2003
>
>
>
> Section V Postscripts
>
> Chapter 25 Epilogue
>
> Acknowledgements, sources and bibliography
>
> Annex A Radio advertising and sponsorship revenue 19722008
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> Annex B Independent radio licences in issue 19722008
>
> Annex C Radio audiences 19722008
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