Greenfield, Jeff.

Television : the first fifty years / Jeff Greenfield. - New York : H. N. Abrams, c1977. - 280 p. ; 35 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 275.

[Pt.1] Television comes to America -- The impact: What television has done to America -- Form and function: How television took shape -- [Pt.2] Prime time -- Programming: Why we see what we see -- Variety: From the sensational to the conversational, and back again -- Situation comedy: The family way -- Drama and adventure: What happened to the "Golden Age"? -- [Pt.3] Advertising -- The selling of America -- [Pt.4] Daytime -- Passion once removed -- [Pt.5] News and sports -- Bigger than life -- [Pt.6] The next generation -- Television at the center.

Text and more than 516 illustrations survey fifty years of television broadcasting in the United States.

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HE 8700.8 / G812t 1977

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