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Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics

reviewed by Michael Vincent Kerley - 1991

Title: Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics
Author(s): William Boddy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign
ISBN: 025206299X, Pages: , Year: 1992
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With the current television landscape of over one thousand independent stations and the potential of receiving over one hundred channels on our new sets, with the rise of cable television and its vast resources for programming and the use of VCRs in over 65 percent of American homes, it is hard to imagine the television industry as infantile and teetering on the brink of economic uncertainty as it entered the decade of the 1950s. William Boddy’s Fifties Television brings to life that period of time when television was the newest medium and writes about its “growing pains” in becoming the dominant medium of its time. The first few chapters deal with the birth of the industry, from early discussions of television’s possibilities in the 1920s and 1930s through the regulations imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Boddy outlines the creation of UHF and VHF bands and their implications (especially financial)... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 93 Number 2, 1991, p. 338-340
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 264, Date Accessed: 4/3/2020 1:31:04 AM

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