NBC: America's Network

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. xii, 362 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: BROADCASTING BEGINS, 1919-38; Introduction to Part One, Michele Hilmes; 1. NBC and the Network Idea: Defining the "American System," Michele Hilmes; 2. "Always in Friendly Competition": NBC and CBS in the First Decade of National Broadcasting, Michael J. Socolow; 3. Programming in the Public Interest: America's Town Meeting of the Air, David Goodman; 4. Regulating Class Conflict on the Air: NBC's Relationship with Business and Organized Labor. Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Nathan Godfried; PART TWO: TRANSITIONAL DECADES, 1938-60; Introduction to Part Two, Michele Hilmes; 5. Breaking Chains: NBC and the FCC Network Inquiry, 1938-43, Christopher H. Sterling; 6. Why Sarnoff Slept: NBC and the Holocaust, David Weinstein; 7. Employment and Blue Pencils: NBC, Race, and Representation, 1926-55, Murray Forman; 8. NBC, J. Walter Thompson, and the Struggle for Control of Television Programming, 1946-58, Mike Mashon; 9. Talent Raids and Package Deals: NBC Loses Its Leadership in the 1950s, Douglas Gomery; PART THREE: NBC AND THE CLASSIC NETWORK SYSTEM, 1960-85; Introduction to Part Three, Michele Hilmes; 10. NBC News Documentary: "Intelligent Interpretation" in a Cold War Context, Michael Curtin; 11. What Closes on Saturday Night: NBC and Satire, Jeffrey S. Miller; 12. The Little Program That Could: The Relationship between NBC and Star Trek, Maire Messenger Davies and Roberta Pearson; 13. Sex as a Weapon: Programming Sexuality in the 1970s, Elana Levine; 14. Saturday Morning Children's Programs on NBC, 1975-2006: A Case Study of Self-Regulation, Karen Hill-Scott and Horst Stipp; PART FOUR: NBC IN THE DIGITAL AGE, 1985 TO THE PRESENT; Introduction to Part Four, Michele Hilmes; 15. Must-See TV: NBC's Dominant Decades, Amanda D. Lotz; 16. Creating the Twenty-first-Century Television Network: NBC in the Age of Media Conglomerates, Christopher Anderson; 17. Life without Friends: NBC's Programming Strategies in an Age of Media Clutter, Media Conglomeration, and TiVo, Kevin S. Sandler; 18. Network Nation: Writing Broadcasting History as Cultural History, Michele Hilmes and Shawn VanCour; NBC Time Line Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.