Fifties television : the industry and its critics /
Just a few years in the mid-1950s separated the "golden age" of television's live anthology drama from Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" pronouncement. Fifties Television shows how the significant programming changes of the period cannot be attributed simply to shi...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[1990]
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| Series: | Illinois studies in communications.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1: setting the stage for commercial television
- Debating television
- Regulation of the early television industry
- UHF, the television freeze, and the network monopoly
- pt. 2: the television industry in the early 1950s
- Early film programming in television
- Live television: program formats and critical hierarchies
- The false dawn of a golden age
- pt. 3: Programs and power: networks, sponsors, and the rise of film programming
- The economics of television networking
- The Hollywood studios move into prime time
- The new structure of television sponsorship
- Network control of the program procurement process
- pt. 4: "the honeymoon is over": the end of live drama
- TV's public relations crisis of the late 1950s
- The critics and the wasteland: redefining commercial television
- The death of the networks as reformist heroes.