| Description |
xii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-341) and index. |
| Contents |
NBC and the network idea : defining the "American system" / Michele Hilmes -- "Always in friendly competition" : NBC and CBS in the first decade of national broadcasting / Michael J. Socolow -- Programming in the public interest : America's town meeting of the air / David Goodman -- Regulating class conflict on the air : NBC's relationship with business and organized labor / Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Nathan Godfried -- Breaking chains : NBC and the FCC network inquiry, 1938-43 / Christopher H. Sterling -- Why Sarnoff slept : NBC and the Holocaust / David Weinstein -- Employment and blue pencils : NBC, race, and representation, 1926-55 / Murray Forman -- NBC, J. Walter Thompson, and the struggle for control of television programming, 1946-58 / Mike Mashon -- Talent raids and package deals : NBC loses its leadership in the 1950s / Douglas Gomery -- NBC news documentary : 'intelligent interpretation' in a Cold War context / Michael Curtin -- What closes on Saturday night : NBC and satire / Jeffrey S. Miller -- Little program that could : the relationship between NBC and Star Trek / Máire Messenger Davies and Roberta Pearson -- Sex as a weapon : programming sexuality in the 1970s / Elana Levine -- Saturday morning children's programs on NBC, 1975-2006 : a case study of self-regulation / Karen Hill-Scott and Horst Stipp -- Must-see TV : NBC's dominant decades / Amanda D. Lotz -- Creating the twenty-first-century television network : NBC in the age of media conglomeration / Christopher Anderson -- Life without friends : NBC's programming strategies in an age of media clutter, media conglomerates, and TiVo / Kevin S. Sandler -- Network nation : writing broadcasting history as cultural history / Michele Hilmes and Shawn VanCour -- NBC time line. |
| Subject |
National Broadcasting Company.
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National Broadcasting Company. |
| Added Author |
Hilmes, Michele, 1953-
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Henry, Michael (Michael Lowell)
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| Added Title |
National Broadcasting Company |
| ISBN |
9780520250819 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780520250796 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520250796 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520250818 paperback alkaline paper |
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