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Same Time, Same Station:

Creating American Television, 1948-1961
  • ISBN-13: 9780801879333
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By James L. Baughman
  • Price: AUD $88.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/2007
  • Format: Hardback 460 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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Ever wonder how American television came to be the much-derided, advertising-heavy home to reality programming, formulaic situation comedies, hapless men, and buxom, scantily clad women? Could it have been something different, focusing instead on culture, theater, and performing arts?In Same Time, Same Station, historian James L. Baughman takes readers behind the scenes of early broadcasting, examining corporate machinations that determined the future of television. Split into two camps -- those who thought TV could meet and possibly raise the expectations of wealthier, better-educated post-war consumers and those who believed success meant mimicking the products of movie houses and radio -- decision makers fought a battle of ideas that peaked in the 1950s, just as TV became a central facet of daily life for most Americans.Baughman's engagingly written account of the brief but contentious debate shows how the inner workings and outward actions of the major networks, advertisers, producers, writers, and entertainers ultimately made TV the primary forum for entertainment and information. The tale of television's founding years reveals a series of decisions that favored commercial success over cultural aspiration.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Opening Number2. ""The Mother of Television""3. The Marionette and the Cross-Dresser4. The Regulators5. ""Mr. Spectacular""6. Paley's Choice7. ""We Just See That It Isn't Lousy""8. The Patrons9. ""Informed without Being Ponderous""10. Shooting the Wounded11. Signing OffNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

""Same Time, Same Station is a scholarly pleasure to explore and should be in every university library where media studies are taken seriously.""

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