Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting

by Richard E. Caves

Media critics invariably disparage the quality of programming produced by the U.S. television industry. But why the industry produces what it does is a question largely unasked. It is this question, at the crux of American popular culture, that Switching Channels explores.

In the past twenty-five years, the expansion of cable and satellite systems has transformed television. Richard Caves examines the economics of this phenomenon--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674018788
• ISBN13: 9780674018785
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.6"