NBC : America's network
Title:
NBC : America's network
JLCTITLE245:
Michele Hilmes, editor ; Michael Henry, photo editor.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:
9780520940604
9781435682900
Abstract:
Spanning eight decades from the beginnings of commercial radio to the current era of international consolidation and emerging digital platforms, this pioneering volume illuminates the entire course of American broadcasting by offering the first comprehensive history of a major network. Bringing together wide-ranging original articles by leading scholars and industry insiders, it offers a comprehensive view of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) that brings into focus the development of this key American institution and the ways that it has intersected with, and influenced, the central even.
Local Note:
JSTOR
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Corporate Subject:
Subject Term:
Variant Title:
National Broadcasting Company
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 -- The 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.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.