Freedom on the Airwaves: Does Rebel Radio Have a Future in America?
BOOK FORUM Thursday, November 1, 2001 4:00 p.m. Featuring Jesse Walker, author of Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (New York University Press, 2001); with comments by Tom Hazlett, American Enterprise Institute. The Cato Institute 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 Watch the Event in Real Video Listen to the Event in Real Audio (Audio Only) Most histories of radio broadcasting in America-as typically told by government regulators and large broadcast interests-stress the importance of federal management of the broadcast spectrum, the licensing of large broadcast stations to serve the national market, and the regulation of program content to conform with “the public interest.” But in his new book Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, Jesse Walker, an associate editor of Reason magazine, offers a refreshingly different perspective on the history of radio told largely through the eyes of the small entrepreneurs whose ecce
