Cable visions : television beyond broadcasting /
Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24-hour news, 24-hour weather, movie channels, children's channels, home shopping, and channels targeting groups based o...
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New York, N.Y. :
New York University Press,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- The moms 'n' pops of CATV / Megan Mullen
- A taste of class : pay-TV and the commodification of television in Postwar America / John McMurria
- Cable's digital future / Francois Bar and Jonathan Taplin
- If it's not TV, what is it? the case of U.S. subscription television / Amanda D. Lotz
- Where the cable ends : television in fringe areas / Lisa Parks
- Discovery's Wild Discovery : the growth and globalization of TV's animal genres / Cynthia Chris
- Tunnel vision and food : a political-economic analysis of Food Network / Cheri Ketchum
- Target market black : BET and the branding of African-America / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
- Monolingualism, biculturalism, and cable TV : HBO Latino and the promise of the multiplex / Katynka Z. Martinez
- Gay programming, gay publics : public and private tensions in lesbian and gay cable channels / Anthony Freitas
- 11. The Nickelodeon brand : buying and selling the audience / Sarah Banet-Weiser
- Cable watching : HBO, The Sopranos, and discourses of distinction / Dana Polan
- Bank tellers and flag wavers : cable news in the United States / Toby Miller
- Dualcasting : Bravo's gay programming and the quest for women audiences / Katherine Sender
- I'm rich, bitch!!! comedy of Chappelle's show / Christine Acham
- The WWE's global reach : Latino fans and wrestlers / Ellen Seiter.