Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Aniko Bodroghkozy Part I American Broadcasting in Historical
Overview 25
1 Before the Broadcast Era: 1900-1910s 27
Susan J. Douglas
2 The Broadcast Radio Era: 1920s-1940s 47
Michele Hilmes
3 Television Before the Classic Network Era: 1930s-1950s
71
Michael Kackman
4 The Classic Network Era in Television: 1950s-1970s 93
Victoria E. Johnson
5 The Multi-Channel Transition Period: 1980s-1990s 111
Bambi Haggins and Julia Himberg
6 Radio in the Television Era: 1950s-2000s 135
Alexander Russo
7 The Post-Network Era: 2000s-Present 153
Amanda D. Lotz Part II American Broadcasting in Historical Focus
169
Industry/Production
8 A History of Broadcast Regulations: Principles and
Perspectives 171
Jennifer Holt
9 Reviving the Technical in Television History 193
Susan Murray
10 Public Broadcasting 211
Josh Shepperd
11 Latino Broadcasting in the United States 237
Hector Amaya
12 Radio, Television, and the Military 257
Stacy Takacs Part II American Broadcasting in Historical Focus
279
Programming/Genre
13 Radio Sitcoms: History and Preservation 281
Laura LaPlaca
14 The Rise and Fall of the Soap Opera 301
Elana Levine
15 Television Music 321
Norma Coates Part II American Broadcasting in Historical Focus
347
Audiences/Reception
16 A History of the Commodity Audience 349
Eileen R. Meehan
17 Broadcast Activism 371
Allison Perlman
18 African Americans and Broadcasting 389
Robin R. Means Coleman
19 A History of Fandom in Broadcasting 413
Allison McCracken Part III Doing American Broadcasting History:
Reflections on Key Texts 443
20 Erik Barnouw's Trilogy on the History of US Broadcasting
445
Gary R. Edgerton
21 Susan J. Douglas' Inventing American Broadcasting 455
Shawn VanCour
22 Lynn Spigel's Make Room for TV 465
Aniko Bodroghkozy
23 William Boddy's Fifties Television 475
Mark J. Williams
Index 485
Aniko Bodroghkozy is a media historian and Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. She is author of several books Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement and Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion. Her areas of expertise include television in the 1960s and social change movements and their media coverage. She is currently completing a book on television news coverage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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