Description: This is a totally revamped version of the author's earlier book Comparing Broadcast Systems; The Experiences of Six Industrialized Nations (1989). Brown (speech communication, U. of Minnesota) offers a historically-oriented description and analysis of electronic media in the industrialized world outside the United States. Included is a projection of the future electronic media and a model of an "ideal" broadcast system. The work studies systems in France, the Netherlands, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Russia (information on Japan was left out of this work because of space considerations, but it is available from the author). General consideration is also given to Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Among the issues discussed are the dynamism of electronic media and the ways in which political, cultural, linguistic, geographic, technological, and economic forces affect its development.

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