NBC : America's network / Michele Hilmes, editor ; Michael Henry, photo editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hilmes, Michele, 1953-

Henry, Michael (Michael Lowell)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Broadcasting Company.

Physical Description:

xii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

National Broadcasting Company

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Contents:

Part 1 Broadcasting Begins, 1919-38

1 NBC and the Network Idea: Defining the "American System" / Michele Hilmes 7

2 "Always in Friendly Competition": NBC and CBS in the First Decade of National Broadcasting / Michael J. Socolow 25

3 Programming in the Public Interest: America's Town Meeting of the Air / David Goodman 44

4 Regulating Class Conflict on the Air: NBC's Relationship with Business and Organized Labor / Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Nathan Godfried 61

Part 2 Transitional Decades, 1938-60

5 Breaking Chains: NBC and the FCC Network Inquiry, 1938-43 / Christopher H. Sterling 85

6 Why Sarnoff Slept: NBC and the Holocaust / David Weinstein 98

7 Employment and Blue Pencils: NBC, Race, and Representation, 1926-55 / Murray Forman 117

8 NBC, J. Walter Thompson, and the Struggle for Control of Television Programming, 1946-58 / Mike Mashon 135

9 Talent Raids and Package Deals: NBC Loses Its Leadership in the 1950s / Douglas Gomery 153

Part 3 NBC and the Classic Network System, 1960-85

10 NBC News Documentary: "Intelligent Interpretation" in a Cold War Context / Michael Curtin 175

11 What Closes on Saturday Night: NBC and Satire / Jeffrey S. Miller 192

12 The Little Program That Could: The Relationship between NBC and Star Trek / Maire Messenger Davies, Roberta Pearson 209

13 Sex as a Weapon: Programming Sexuality in the 1970s / Elana Levine 224

14 Saturday Morning Children's Programs on NBC, 1975-2006: A Case Study of Self-Regulation / Karen Hill-Scott, Horst Stipp 240

Part 4 NBC in the Digital Age, 1985 to the Present

15 Must-See TV: NBC's Dominant Decades / Amanda D. Lotz 261

16 Creating the Twenty-first-Century Television Network: NBC in the Age of Media Conglomerates / Christopher Anderson 275

17 Life without Friends: NBC's Programming Strategies in an Age of Media Clutter, Media Conglomeration, and TiVo / Kevin S. Sandler 291

18 Network Nation: Writing Broadcasting History as Cultural History / Michele Hilmes, Shawn VanCour 308

NBC Time Line 323.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-341) and index.

ISBN:

0520250796

9780520250796

0520250818

9780520250819

OCLC:

71173718