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Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961

Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961

Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961 Hardback - 2007

by James L Baughman

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  • Title Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961
  • Author James L Baughman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 460
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
  • Publication date 2007-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780801879333_inp
  • ISBN 9780801879333 / 0801879337
  • Weight 1.69 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.4 x 1.48 in (23.01 x 16.26 x 3.76 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Television broadcasting - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006015560
  • Dewey Decimal Code 384.550
  • Quantity available 390

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From the publisher

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.

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Citations

  • New Yorker (The), 04/30/2007, Page 80
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 261

About the author

James L. Baughman is professor and director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941 and Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media, both published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

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