Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:14:22 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: EVENT: Does Rebel Radio Have a Future in America? DC 11-01-2001
 Cato Institute
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From: "Adam Thierer" <athierer@cato.org>
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Invitation to Cato Book Forum (11/1 at 4:00) on Future of 
Micro-broadcasting
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:35:43 -0400

  I would like to invite you to an upcoming Cato Book Forum to 
celebrate the release of "Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History 
of Radio in America," by Jesse Walker, an associate editor of Reason 
magazine. The event will take place on Thursday, November 1 at 4:00 
p.m. here at the Cato Institute. More details and RSVP information 
follow below. I hope you will plan to join us for this event.

--Adam Thierer

The Cato Institute
invites you to a Book Forum

Freedom on the Airwaves
Does Rebel Radio Have a Future in America?

featuring

Jesse Walker
Author, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History
  of Radio in America

(New York University Press, 2001)

with comments by

Tom Hazlett
American Enterprise Institute

      Most histories of radio broadcasting in America 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 small entrepreneurs 
whose eccentric style and range of programming has offered the public 
meaningful listening options.  Rebels on the Air also explains how 
regulators and large broadcasting giants have worked tirelessly to 
craft rules that favor licensed broadcasting giants and penalize 
unlicensed amateurs and local microbroadcasters. Tom Hazlett, one of 
America's leading experts on the history of broadcasting, will 
provide additional analysis of government involvement in the 
development of the broadcast marketplace.

Thursday, November 1, 2001
4:00 p.m.

(Reception to follow)

Cato Book Forums and receptions are free of charge.

To register, call Julie Johnson by 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 31, at
(202) 789-5229, fax her at (202) 371-0841, or e-mail 
<mailto:jjohnson@cato.org>jjohnson@cato.org.

The Cato Institute is located at 1000 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington D. C.


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