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America's Network

By: Michele Hilmes (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 August 2007 | Edition Number 1

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"NBC: America's Network makes a significant contribution to our understanding of American broadcasting. Hilmes makes a convincing case for the appropriateness of an examination of a single firm, NBC, to illuminate the major themes and events of American broadcast history. In addition, she adeptly synthesizes a strong set of individually-authored chapters on specific historical periods, controversies, and program genres into a coherent whole. The writing is concise and lively and the breadth and depth of the material makes this a exceptional work."--William Boddy, author of New Media and Popular Imagination

"NBC: America's Network is an outstanding book about one network across US television history. Hilmes is an excellent editor who brings broad insights about the television industry to bear on this volume. The individual essays present different approaches and methods, and together provide an integrated history of NBC with analysis that respects the medium and the people that worked in it."--Mary Beth Haralovich, co-editor of Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays.

"Filled with highly readable essays by the top scholars in the field, NBC: America's Network explores key, often watershed moments in the network's history to illuminate the central role broadcasting has played in constituting public discourse about what is-and what is not-in the public interest. A welcome addition to the history of broadcasting, and essential reading for anyone interested in the transformative role of radio and TV in modern life."--Susan J. Douglas, author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Broadcasting Begins, 1919-38
	p. 3
NBC and the Network Idea: Defining the "American System"	p. 7
"Always in Friendly Competition": NBC and CBS in the First Decade of National Broadcasting	p. 25
Programming in the Public Interest: America's Town Meeting of the Air	p. 44
Regulating Class Conflict on the Air: NBC's Relationship with Business and Organized Labor	p. 61
Transitional Decades, 1938-60
	p. 81
Breaking Chains: NBC and the FCC Network Inquiry, 1938-43	p. 85
Why Sarnoff Slept: NBC and the Holocaust	p. 98
Employment and Blue Pencils: NBC, Race, and Representation, 1926-55	p. 117
NBC, J. Walter Thompson, and the Struggle for Control of Television Programming, 1946-58	p. 135
Talent Raids and Package Deals: NBC Loses Its Leadership in the 1950s	p. 153
NBC and the Classic Network System, 1960-85
	p. 171
NBC News Documentary: "Intelligent Interpretation" in a Cold War Context	p. 175
What Closes on Saturday Night: NBC and Satire	p. 192
The Little Program That Could: The Relationship between NBC and Star Trek	p. 209
Sex as a Weapon: Programming Sexuality in the 1970s	p. 224
Saturday Morning Children's Programs on NBC, 1975-2006: A Case Study of Self-Regulation	p. 240
NBC in the Digital Age, 1985 to the Present
	p. 259
Must-See TV: NBC's Dominant Decades	p. 261
Creating the Twenty-first-Century Television Network: NBC in the Age of Media Conglomerates	p. 275
Life without Friends: NBC's Programming Strategies in an Age of Media Clutter, Media Conglomeration, and TiVo	p. 291
Network Nation: Writing Broadcasting History as Cultural History	p. 308
NBC Time Line	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 331
Notes on Contributors	p. 343
Index	p. 347
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