Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History

1 No Small Potatoes.

Communication and Transportation: The Divorce / Water, Water Everywhere / Electrical Bananas / Here Comes The Judge / Say What?.

2 A Downstream Medium.

The Show Business / Radical Consumerism Occupies the Middle / Networking / Quality Control.

3 A Burning Bush.

Broadcasting: Love It or Need It? / A Vertical System of Culture / Compatible Software.

4 Staging and Screening.

Sets / Getting with the Program / The Origins of ABC.

5 Corruption and Plateau.

Scandals and Shake-outs.

6 Dull as Paint and Just as Colorful.

TV Rules / Just Plain Folks / Television Gothic.

7 A Myth is as Good as a Smile.

When No News Was Good News…in Prime Time / Shows Without Trees / As Real As it Got / Regulation and Social Effects / Programming and the Television Industry.

8 Oligopoly Lost and Found.

The Train and The Station / The Shock of The News / The Third Mask of Janus