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

by James L. Baughman

Book Overview

Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801879337
• ISBN13: 9780801879333
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher