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Radio Ministries: Religion on Australian Commercial Radio from the 1920s to the 1960s *
Author(s) -
GRIFFENFOLEY BRIDGET
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of religious history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9809
pISSN - 0022-4227
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9809.2008.00700.x
Subject(s) - broadcasting (networking) , commercial broadcasting , subject (documents) , radio broadcasting , diversity (politics) , media studies , political science , public broadcasting , sociology , telecommunications , advertising , engineering , law , business , computer science , library science , computer network
This article examines the first forty years of religious broadcasting on commercial radio in Australia, a subject largely neglected by historians of Australian religion and the media. It reveals the diversity of religious broadcasting on Australian commercial radio, the ambiguities of the regulatory framework within which it operated, the influence of American religious broadcasting in Australia, and the challenges confronting religious broadcasters, particularly in the decade between the introduction of television and the emergence of talkback radio. The article concludes in the second half of the 1960s, when religious programming faced mounting commercial pressures, as well as a new opportunity in the shape of “talkback” radio.