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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives
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'This lively and accessible book charts how Australian audiences have engaged with radio and television since the 1920s. Ranging across both the commercial and public service broadcasting sectors, it recovers and explores the lived experiences of a wide cross-section of Australian listeners and viewers. Offering new perspectives on how audiences have responded to broadcast content, and how radio and television stations have been part of the lives of Australians, over the past one hundred years, this book invites us into the dynamic world created for children by the radio industry, traces the operations of radio and television clubs across Australia, and uncovers the workings of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s viewers’ advisory committees. It also opens up the fan mail received by Australian broadcasting stations and personalities, delves into the complaints files of regulators, and teases out the role of participants and studio audiences in popular matchmaking programs.' (Publication summary)

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      Extent: XIII, 167p.
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      • Published: 30th September 2020
      ISBN: 9783030546366

Works about this Work

Book Review : Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives Book Review: Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives Alex Griffin , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Media International Australia , February vol. 190 no. 1 2024; (p. 174–175)

— Review of Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives Bridget Griffen-Foley , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'Over several decades, Bridget Griffen-Foley has produced a foundational body of work in Australian media studies. Ranging from that comprehensive history of Australian radio, Changing Stations, the definitive books on the Packer family (with apologies to Paul Barry's paperback), to editing A Companion to Australian Media – with many varied smaller stops between and beyond – Griffen-Foley's contributions to the discipline have foregrounded primary research and the relationality between the minor and the major in telling the histories of Australian media. This, her latest volume, continues this decades-long effort by engaging with Australian radio and TV listening and watching practices across five decades, and is an ambitious and rewarding collection of historical vignettes.' (Introduction)

[Review] Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives Kyle Harvey , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , 2 vol. 47 no. 2023; (p. 414-415)

— Review of Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives Bridget Griffen-Foley , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'Media historian Bridget Griffen-Foley’s most recent monograph traces the archival remnants from the 1920s to the 1990s of Australian broadcast media audiences. This ambitious project, covering radio listenership and television viewership, might at first appear unwieldy, yet Griffen-Foley has carefully assembled a series of “perspectives” (1) where traces of media audiences’ fandom, complaints, club membership and involvement in television and radio programming offer a rich picture of how “ordinary” Australians interacted with broadcast media throughout the 20th century.'(Introduction)

Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives, Bridget Griffen-Foley (2020) Donna Lee Brien , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 11 no. 1-2 2022; (p. 195-198)

— Review of Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives Bridget Griffen-Foley , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'I was excited to review this book after using Bridget Griffen-Foley’s Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio (2009) in my own research on women in Australian radio. Griffen-Foley is a major researcher of Australian media history and Changing Stations presents a thorough history of Australian radio from the 1920s to the introduction of digital radio in 2009. Her new book, Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives (2020), builds on and extends this important work and will be of major interest to popular culture researchers in terms of both its content and methodology.' (Introduction) 

[Review] Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives Jock Given , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 52 no. 4 2021; (p. 658-659)

— Review of Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives Bridget Griffen-Foley , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'What traces did Australian radio and television audiences leave when their listening and viewing was over? Today, registered users of audio and video streaming services make indelible digital imprints everywhere they go. Earlier listeners and viewers of ephemeral broadcast signals did not. Audience research arose to quantify and understand their behaviour. Bridget Griffen-Foley has gone looking for evidence about that behaviour in unusual places.'  (Introduction)

[Review] Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives Jock Given , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 52 no. 4 2021; (p. 658-659)

— Review of Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives Bridget Griffen-Foley , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'What traces did Australian radio and television audiences leave when their listening and viewing was over? Today, registered users of audio and video streaming services make indelible digital imprints everywhere they go. Earlier listeners and viewers of ephemeral broadcast signals did not. Audience research arose to quantify and understand their behaviour. Bridget Griffen-Foley has gone looking for evidence about that behaviour in unusual places.'  (Introduction)

Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives, Bridget Griffen-Foley (2020) Donna Lee Brien , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 11 no. 1-2 2022; (p. 195-198)

— Review of Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives Bridget Griffen-Foley , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'I was excited to review this book after using Bridget Griffen-Foley’s Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio (2009) in my own research on women in Australian radio. Griffen-Foley is a major researcher of Australian media history and Changing Stations presents a thorough history of Australian radio from the 1920s to the introduction of digital radio in 2009. Her new book, Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives (2020), builds on and extends this important work and will be of major interest to popular culture researchers in terms of both its content and methodology.' (Introduction) 

[Review] Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives Kyle Harvey , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , 2 vol. 47 no. 2023; (p. 414-415)

— Review of Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives Bridget Griffen-Foley , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'Media historian Bridget Griffen-Foley’s most recent monograph traces the archival remnants from the 1920s to the 1990s of Australian broadcast media audiences. This ambitious project, covering radio listenership and television viewership, might at first appear unwieldy, yet Griffen-Foley has carefully assembled a series of “perspectives” (1) where traces of media audiences’ fandom, complaints, club membership and involvement in television and radio programming offer a rich picture of how “ordinary” Australians interacted with broadcast media throughout the 20th century.'(Introduction)

Book Review : Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives Book Review: Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives Alex Griffin , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Media International Australia , February vol. 190 no. 1 2024; (p. 174–175)

— Review of Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers : Historical Perspectives Bridget Griffen-Foley , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'Over several decades, Bridget Griffen-Foley has produced a foundational body of work in Australian media studies. Ranging from that comprehensive history of Australian radio, Changing Stations, the definitive books on the Packer family (with apologies to Paul Barry's paperback), to editing A Companion to Australian Media – with many varied smaller stops between and beyond – Griffen-Foley's contributions to the discipline have foregrounded primary research and the relationality between the minor and the major in telling the histories of Australian media. This, her latest volume, continues this decades-long effort by engaging with Australian radio and TV listening and watching practices across five decades, and is an ambitious and rewarding collection of historical vignettes.' (Introduction)

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