Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV BroadcastingHarvard University Press, 2005 M09 15 - 360 pages 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. |
Contents
The Market for Broadcast Network Programming | 19 |
Syndication | 49 |
The Public Broadcasting System | 74 |
The Squeeze on Broadcasters Rents | 99 |
Cable Networks and Upgraded Cable Programming | 127 |
Broadcast Networks Stations and Rents | 155 |
Program Supply Integration and the FinSyn Rules | 183 |
Broadcast Stations Lengthening the Chains | 212 |