International in scope, this handbook provides an overview of the historical developments and current status of the terrestrial radio industry in some of the largest and most populated countries throughout the world, with insightful and global perspectives by prominent international media scholars and examinations of over 20 countries.
About the Author: MARKO ALA-FOSSI Senior Lecturer at the University of Tampere, Finland. EDNA TORMON-BERNABE Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. MASUDUL BISWAS Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism/Communication at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA. MONTSE BONET Senior Lecturer in the Audiovisual Communication and Advertising Department at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. MICHAEL BROWN Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of Wyoming, USA. ÖZDEN CANKAYA Professor of Communications at the Faculty of Communications of Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey. CHWEN CHWEN CHEN Research Fellow and Assistant Director at the China Media Observatory of the Faculty of Communication Sciences in Lugano. JEAN-JACQUES CHEVAL Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. ANDREW M. CLARK Associate Professor and Broadcast Sequence Coordinator at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. RALUCA COZMA Assistant Professor at the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University, USA. TONY R. DEMARS Associate Professor and Radio-Television Division Director at Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA ELIZABETH L. ENRIQUEZ Professor in the College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman GERMÁN ARANGO FORERO Associate Professor in the School of Communication at La Sabana University, Bogotá-Colombia. BRADLEY C. FREEMAN Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. MARY WAIRIMU GATUAPh.D. candidate in Adult Education at the University of Wyoming, USA. KLAUS GOLDHAMMER Founder of Goldmedia GmbH Strategy Consulting and Managing Director of the Goldmedia-Holding GmbH MAX V. GRUBBSenior Journalism Education Advisor for International Research Exchange (IREX) in the Republic of Georgia. MARÍA ELENA GUTIÉRREZ-RENTERÍA Professor in the School of Business and Economics at Universidad Panamericana, México. LAWRIE HALLETT Trained as a radio journalist and worked for various radio stations in the UK and Europe during the 1980s and 1990s HENRIK HARGITAI Senior Lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, Budapest, Hungary. MICHAEL HUNTSBERGER Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Linfield College, USA. M. AMINUL ISLAMSenior Reporter for New Age, in Bangladesh. YUSUF KALYANGO, JR. Director of the Institute for International Journalism and Assistant Professor of Journalism in the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, USA. SVETLANA KULIKOVA Assistant Professor of International Communication with the Department of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. PETER LAUFER James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication in Eugene, USA. STEPHEN LAX Senior Lecturer in Communications Technology at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK. SEBASTIAN LEHR Management Consultant at the Berlin-based consulting group Goldmedia. GARY H. MAYER Professor of Communication at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) in Nacogdoches, Texas, USA. ENRICO MENDUNI Professor of Radio and Television Cultures at Università Roma Tre, Italy. MICHAEL NEVRADAKIS Doctoral student in Media Studies in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. BRIAN O'NEILL Head of the School of Media at Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. TRACEY OWENS PATTON Director of African American & Diaspora Studies as well as an Associate Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The University of Wyoming, USA. CEM PEKMAN Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-TV at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. YOKANATHAN RAMAKRISHNAN Senior Lecturer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic's School of Film and Media Studies, Singapore SUDESHNA ROY Assistant Professor in the Division of Communication & Contemporary Culture at Stephen F. Austin State University, USA. RICHARD RUDIN Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK. JOSEFINA C. SANTANA Professor-Researcher at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico. LINGWEI SHAO Student in the School of International Studies at Zhejiang University, China. CSABA SZOMBATHY Head of R&S Reference Laboratory at the Budapest University of Technology, Hungary WEI-CHUN VICTORIA WANG Doctoral candidate in the School of Media Arts and