The American Television Industry offers a concise and accessible introduction to TV production, programming, advertising, and distribution in the United States.

Richly researched and engaging, The Columbia History of American Television tracks the growth of TV into a convergent technology, a global industry, a social ca

Television and American Culture: An Overview introduces students to the study of television by looking at American television from a cultural perspective. The b

Ever since Newton Minow taught us sophisticates to bemoan the descent of television into a vast wasteland, the dyspeptic chorus of jeremiahs who insist that tel