The Broadcast Television Industry by James R. Walker, ISBN 0205189504
Explore the current practices and impact of the U.S. broadcast television industry. A look at the particular strengths and weaknesses of broadcast TV written during the new age of television, these pages cover cable, home video, and digital satellite systems as competing distribution systems.
U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 by Nancy E. Bernhard, ISBN 0521594154
Television news and the Cold War grew simultaneously in the years following World War II, and their history is deeply intertwined. In order to guarantee sufficient resolve in the American public for a long term arms buildup, defense and security officials turned to the television networks. In need of access to official film and newsmakers to build themselves into serious news organizations, and anxious to prove their loyalty in the age of blacklisting, the network news divisions acted as unofficial state propagandists. This book analyzes the shocking extent of their collaboration.
U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 by Nancy E. Bernhard, ISBN 0521594154 
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Those Wonderful, Terrible Years: George Heller and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists by Rita Morley Harvey, ISBN 0809320223
This is the story of George Heller - the glamour boy of the trade union movement - and his actor colleagues Philip Loeb, Sam Jaffe, and Albert (Van) Dekker. It is also the story of the formation and growth of AFRA (the American Federation of Radio Artists) and its later incarnation AFTRA (the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists). Always prominent in Rita Morley Harvey's account of what happened to the union, to its members, and to Heller and his friends are the shadows cast by the radical right in government and those willing to help in its dirty work. The story of AFTRA begins during the Great Depression, a time of extraordinary trust and camaraderie as well as a time of tremendous hardship. But as American life stretched into the 1950s and the Golden Age of television, the radio and television industry was beset by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and all that he came to represent. While many would like to forget the McCarthy era, Harvey insists that this was a "time of stunning...
Those Wonderful, Terrible Years: George Heller and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists by Rita Morley Harvey, ISBN 0809320223
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Television Criticism
Television Criticism presents an original treatment of television criticism with a foundational approach to the nature of criticism, an understanding of the business of television, production background in creating television style, in-depth chapters on storytelling and narrative theories and television genres, the interaction of rhetoric and cultural studies theories, representation, and postmodernism. It presents new and comprehensive guidelines for analysis and criticism, and it has a sample critique of the television program CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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Descriptive Metadata for Television: An End-To-End Introduction
Descriptive Metadata for Television is a comprehensive introduction for television professionals that need to understand metadata's purpose and technology. This easy-to-read book translates obscure technical to hands-on language understandable by real people.
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New York Dead by Stuart Woods, ISBN 1587881489
It Was Just Luck
Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out.
Suddenly he is on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country's hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman.
No matter where...
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