Television
This list contains mostly studies of the television industry and the development of broadcast news. It doesn’t deal much with TV stars and producers, or audience analysis.
Abernathy-Lear, Gloria. “African Americans’ Criticisms Concerning African American Representations on Daytime Serials.” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 71:4 (1994): 830-839.
Abramson, Albert. The History of Television, 1880 to 1941. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1987.
Adams, William C., ed. Television Coverage of International Affairs. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1982.
Ackerman, Colin. “Public or Private Interest? The History and Impacts of Children’s Television Public Policy in the United States, 1934 to Present.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 12:2 (Spring 2019): 285-304.
Adler, Richard, and Douglass Cater, eds. Television as a Cultural Force. New York: Praeger, 1976.
Alexander, Alison, Louise M. Benjamin, Keisha Hoerrner, and Darrell Roe. “We’ll Be Back in a Moment: A Content Analysis of Advertisements in Children’s Television in the 1950s.” Journal of Advertising 27:3 (Fall 1998): 1-9.
Allen, Craig. “News Conferences on TV: Ike Age Politics Revisited.” Journalism Quarterly 70:1 (1993): 13-25.
Allen, Craig M. News is People: The Rise of Local Television News and the Fall of News From New York. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2001.
Allen, Craig. “Gender Breakthrough Fit for a Focus Group: The First Women Newscasters and Why They Arrived in Local TV News.” Journalism History 28:4 (Winter 2003): 154-162.
Allen, Robert C. Speaking of Soap Operas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Altheide, David L. Creating Reality: How TV News Distorts Events. Beverly Hills, Cal.: Sage, 1976.
Anderson, Christopher. Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Anderson, J. Kent. Television Fraud: The History and Implications of the Quiz Show Scandals. New York: Praeger, 1979.
Arlen, Michael J. The Camera Age. New York: FSG, 1981. Arlen published several collections of his New Yorker television criticism that are also insightful.
Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin. When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today. New York: Harper Collins, 2021.
Aubin, Stephen P. Distorting Defense: Network News and National Security. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.
Auletta, Ken. Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way. New York: Random House, 1991.
Auten, Philip J., and Douglas A. Boyd. “Dumont: The Original Fourth Network.” Journal of Popular Culture 29:3 (Winter 1995): 63-83.
Baird, David A. “An Emerging Emphasis on Image: Early Press Coverage of Politics and Television.” American Journalism 20:4 (2003): 13-31.
Ballard-Reisch, Deborah. “China Beach and Tour of Duty: American Television and Revisionist History of the Vietnam War.” Journal of Popular Culture 25:3 (Winter 1991): 135-149.
Bannister, Jennifer Burton. “From Laboratory to Living Room: The Development of Television in the United States, 1920-1960.” Ph.D. dissertation, Purdue University, 2001.
Barbree, Jay. Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today. Washington DC: Smithsonian Books, 2007.
Barfield, Ray. A Word from Our Viewers: Reflections from Early Television Audiences. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008.
Barkin, Steve M. “Eisenhower’s Television Planning Board: An Unwritten Chapter in the History of Political Broadcasting.” Journal of Broadcasting 27:4 (1983): 319-331.
Barkin, Steve M. American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Barnouw, Erik. The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States From 1953. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Barnouw, Erik. Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Barnouw, Eric. “Blacklisted: How FCC Commissioner Clifford Durr Earned his Place on the Cold War’s Roll of Honor.” Television Quarterly 28:2 (1996): 60-66.
Baughman, James L. “The National Purpose and the Newest Medium: Liberal Critics of Television, 1958-1960.” Mid-America 64:2 (April-July 1982): 41-55.
Baughman, James L. Television’s Guardians: The FCC and the Politics of Programming, 1958-1967. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Baughman, James L. “Television in the Golden Age: An Entrepreneurial Experiment.” Historian 42 (February 1985).
Baughman, James L. The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking and Broadcasting in America Since 1941. 3rd Edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Baughman, James L. Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Baughman, James L. “Show Business in the Living Room: Management Expectations for American Television, 1947-56.” Business and Economic History 26:2 (Winter 1997): 718-726.
Beadle, Mary E., and Michael D. Murray, eds. Indelible Images: Women of Local Television. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2001.
Becher, Ron. “Hear-See Radio in the World of Tomorrow: RCA and the Presentation of Television at the World’s Fair, 1939-40.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 21:4 (2001): 361-378.
Becker, Christine. It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood’s Film Stars on 1950s Television. Middletown: CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008.
Beltran, Mary. Latino TV: A History. New York: NYU Press, 2022.
Bennett, David Stephen. “The Televised Revolution: ‘Progressive’ Television Coverage of the 1960 New Orleans School Desegregation Crisis.” Louisiana History 58:3 (Summer 2017): 339-365.
Bergreen, Laurence. Look Now, Pay Later: The Rise of Network Broadcasting. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980.
Berke, Annie. Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.
Berkman, Dave. “Let’s Sightsee Radiovision- TV Terms That Didn’t Last.” Journalism Quarterly 63:3 (1986): 626-627.
Berkowitz, Edward D. Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio, and TV. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Bernhard, Nancy E. US Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Bibb, Porter. It Ain’t As Easy as it Looks: Ted Turner’s Amazing Story. New York, Crown, 1993.
Blair, Gwenda. Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Bliss, Edward, Jr., ed. In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961. New York: Knopf, 1967.
Bliss, Edward Jr. Now the News: The Story of Broadcast Journalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Bluem, A. William. Documentary in American Television: Form, Function, Method. New York: Hastings House, 1965.
Boddy, William. Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Boddy, William. “Thrills Sweep Like Electric Currents Through Multitudes: Spectacle, Sociality, and Media Competition in Mid-Century America.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 41:3 (2021): 354-377.
Bodroghkozy, Aniko. Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
Bodroghkozy, Aniko. Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.
Bodroghkozy, Aniko. “Black Weekend: A Reception History of Network Television News and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.” Television and New Media 14:6 (November 2013): 560-578.
Bodroghkozy, Aniko, ed. A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.
Bodroghkozy, Aniko. “Political Satire, That Was the Week That Was, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.” Television and New Media 22:8 (December 2021): 859-877.
Bogart, Leo. The Age of Television: A Study of Viewing Habits and the Impact of Television on American Life. New York: Frederick Unger, 1958.
Bogart, Leo. The Age of Television. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1972.
Bogle, Donald. Primetime Blues: African Americans and Network Television. New York: FSG, 2001.
Bor, Stephanie E. “Lucy’s Two Babies: Framing the First Televised Depiction of Pregnancy.” Media History 19:4 (November 2013): 464-478.
Boulton, Mark. “Sending the Extremists to the Cornfield: Rod Serling’s Crusade Against Radical Conservatism.” Journal of Popular Culture 47:6): 2014: 1226-1244.
Bowser, Robert. Television and the Public. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
Boyer, Peter J. Who Killed CBS? The Undoing of America’s Number One News Network. New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.
Bratslavsky, Lauren. “Broadcast History Gaps When Archival Material Exists: Inserting Peg Lynch and Ethyl and Albert into Sitcom History.” Journal of 20th Century Media History 1:1 (2023): 46-72.
Brinson, Susan L. The Red Scare, Politics, and the Federal Communication Commission, 1941-1960. Westport: Praeger, 2004.
Bronstein, Phoebe. “Southern Projections: Black Television Hosts, Madison Avenue, and Nationalizing the South in 1950s Primetime.” Television & New Media 23:3 (2022): 219-234.
Brook, Vincent. “The Americanization of Molly: How Mid-Fifties Television Homogenized The Goldbergs.” Cinema Journal 38:4 (Summer 1999): 533-551.
Brooks, Tim. The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media: 20th Century Performances on Radio, Records, Film, and Television. Jefferson: McFarland, 2019.
Brown, Les. Television: The Business Behind the Box. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.
Brundson, Charlotte. Screen Tastes: From Soap Opera to Satellite Dish. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Bryant, Jennings, ed. Television and the American Family. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1990.
Bullart, B.J. Public Television: Politics and the Battle Over Documentary Film. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Burns, Gary. “Visualizing 1950s Hits on Your Hit Parade.” Popular Music 17:2 (May 1998): 139-152.
Burns, Eric. Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television’s Conquest of America in the Fifties. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.
Burroughs, Todd Steven. “Kerner’s Other Black Explosion: The Chapter 15 Mandate and the Birth of New York’s Black Public Affairs Programming, 1967-68.” Howard Journal of Communication 30:4 (2019): 355-370.
Butler, Bethonie. Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2024.
Butler, Monica L. “Guardians of the Indian Image’: Controlling Representations of Indigenous Cultures in Television.” The American Indian Quarterly 42:1 (Winter 2018): 1-42.
Buzenberg, Susan and Bill, eds. Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.
Byung Joon Lee. “Attacking the Airwaves: How Television Changed the American Presidential Campaign.” New England Journal of History 73:1 (Fall 2016): 1-27.
Cailteaux, Karen Sue. “The Political Blacklist in the Broadcasting Industry: The Decade of the 1950s.” PhD dissertation, Ohio State University, 1972.
Calhoun, Claudia. Only the Names Have Been Changed: Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022.
Campbell, Kathryn B. “Trying Television: WKOW-TV in the 1950s.” American Journalism 18, no. 2 (2001): 83–102. (Madison, Wis. station)
Campbell, Richard. 60 Minutes and the News: A Mythology for Middle America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Capo, James A. “Network Watergate Coverage Patterns in Late 1972 and Early 1973.” Journalism Quarterly 60 (1983): 595-602.
Capsuto, Steven. Alternate Channels: The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lesbian Images on Radio and Television, 1930s to the Present. New York: Ballentine Books, 2000.
Carstarphen, Meta, and John Sanchez, eds. American Indians and Mass Media. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
Cassata, Mary, and Thomas Skill. Life on Daytime Drama: Tuning in American Serial Drama. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1983.
Cassidy, Marsha F. “Visible Storytellers: Women Narrators on 1950s Daytime Television.” Style 35:2 (Summer 2001): 354-374.
Cassidy, Marsha F. What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.
Castleman, Harry, and Walter J. Podrazik. Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
Cater, Douglass, and Richard Adler, eds. Television as a Social Force. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1975.
Cheers, Imani M. The Evolution of Black Women in Television: Mammies, Matriarchs, and Mistresses. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Chisholm, Bradley F. “The CBS Color Television Venture: A Study of Failed Innovation in the Broadcasting Industry.” PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1987.
Chunovic, Louis. One Foot on the Floor: The Curious Evolution of Sex on Television from I Love Lucy to South Park. New York: TV Books, 2000.
Clark, Jennifer S. Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024.
Clark, Naeemah. “The Birth of an Advocacy Group: The First Six Years of Action for Children’s Television.” Journalism History 30:2 (Summer 2004): 66-75.
Coates, Norma J. “It’s a Man’s, Man’s World: Television and the Masculinization of Rock Discourse and Culture.” PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2002.
Cole, Barry, and Mal Oettinger. The Reluctant Regulator: The FCC and the Broadcast Audience. Boston: Addison Wesley, 1978.
Colt, Barry D., ed. Television: A Selection of Readings from TV Guide Magazine. New York: Free Press, 1970.
Conway, Mike. “The Birth of CBS-TV News: An Ambitious Experiment at the Advent of U.S. Commercial Television.” Journalism History 32:3 (Fall 2006): 128-137.
Conway, Mike. “Before the Bloggers: The Upstart News Technology of Television at the 1948 Political Conventions.” American Journalism 24:1 (Winter 2007): 33-58.
Conway, Mike. “A Guest in Our Living Room: The Television Newscaster before the Rise of the Dominant Anchor.” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 51:3 (September 2007): 457-478.
Conway, Mike. The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
Conway, Mike. “The Extemporaneous Newscast: The Lasting Impact of Walter Cronkite’s Local Television News Experiment.” American Journalism 26 (Summer 2009): 33–54.
Conway, Mike. “The Origins of Television’s ‘Anchor Man’: Cronkite, Swayze, and Journalism Boundary Work. American Journalism 31:4 (Fall 2014): 445-467.
Conway, Mike. “The Ghost of Television News in Media History Scholarship.” American Journalism 34:2 (Spring 2017): 229-239.
Conway, Mike. Contested Ground: The Tunnel and the Struggle over Television News in Cold War America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.
Cowan, Geoffrey. See No Evil: The Backstage Battle Over Sex and Violence on TV. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
Cox, Jim. The Daytime Serials of Television, 1946-1950. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.
Craig, Allen. “Discovering ‘Joe Six Pack’ Content in Television News: The Hidden History of Audience Research, News Consultants, and the Warner Class Model.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media49 (December 2005): 363–82.
Cramer Brownell, Kathryn. “Watergate, the Bipartisan Struggle for Media Access, and the Growth of Cable Television.” Modern American History 3 (2020): 175-198.
Cranston, Pat. “Political Conventions Broadcasts: Their History and Influence.” Journalism Quarterly 7 (Spring 1960): 186-194.
Cressman, Dale L. “Fighting for Access: ABC’s 1965–1966 Feud with NASA.” American Journalism 24 (Summer 2007): 133–151.
Crosby, John. Out of the Blue! A Book About Radio and Television. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952.
Culbert, David. “Television’s Visual Impact on Decision-Making in the USA, 1968: The Tet Offensive and Chicago’s Democratic National Convention.” Journal of Contemporary History 33:3 (July 1998): 419:449.
Cullen, Jim. From Memory to History: Television Versions of the Twentieth Century. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Curtin, Michael. Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics. Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Dalton, Mary M., and Laura R. Linder, eds. The Sitcom Reader. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.
Davies, David R. “From Ridicule to Respect: Newspapers’ Reaction to Television, 1948-1960.” American Journalism 15, no. 4 (1998): 17–33.
Davis, Blair. “Small Screen, Smaller Pictures: Television Broadcasting and B-Movies in the Early 1950s.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon) 28 (June 2008): 219–38.
Davis, Gerry. The Today Show: An Anecdotal History. New York: Morrow, 1987.
Day, James. The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Dayan, Daniel, and Elihu Katz. Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Dell, Chad. “Wrestling with Corporate Identity: Defining Television Programming Strategy at NBC, 1945-1950,” in Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting, J. Emmett Winn and Susan L. Brinson, eds. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005).
Delong, Thomas. Quiz Craze: American’s Infatuation with Game Shows. New York: Praeger, 1991.
Desjardins, Mary R. Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Delmont, Matt. “Making Philadelphia Safe for ‘wfil-adelphia’: Television, Housing, and Defensive Localism in Postwar Philadelphia.” Journal of Urban History 38 (January 2012): 89–113.
Denton, Robert E. The Primetime Presidency of Ronald Reagan. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001.
Devlin, Paul. “Good Night, Sweet Blues and the Legacy of Ida Cox: Jazz, Women, and Agency in Route 66.” Film & History 51:2 (Winter 2021): 30-42.
Diamond, Edwin, and Stephen Bates. The Spot: The Rise of Political Advertising on Television. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
Doherty, Thomas. “Frank Costello’s Hands: Film, Television, and the Kefauver Crime Hearings.” Film History 10:3 (1998): 359-374.
Doherty, Thomas. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Donahue, Hugh Carter. The Battle to Control Broadcast News. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.
Donovan, Robert J. Unsilent Revolution: Television News and American Public Life, 1948-1991. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Downey, Gregory J. Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Downing, Spencer. “What TV Taught: Children’s Television and Consumer Culture from Howdy Doody to Sesame Street.” PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2004.
Dunham, Corydon B. Fighting for the First Amendment: Stanton of CBS vs. Congress and the Nixon White House. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997.
Dunn, Mark. Quizzing America: Television Game Shows and Popular Culture in the 1950s. McFarland, 2018.
Eagan, Eileen. “Our Town in Cold War America: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950-1958).” Film & History 26:1-4 (1996): 62-70.
Eddy, William C. Television: The Eyes of Tomorrow. New York: Prentice Hall, 1945.
Edgerton, Gary R. and Peter C. Rollins, eds., Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.*
Edgerton, Gary. The Columbia History of American Television. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Edmondson, Marylyn, and David Rounds. The Soaps: Daytime Serials of Radio and Television. New York: Stein and Day, 1973.
Edwardson, Mickie. “James Lawrence Fly v. David Sarnoff: Blitzkrieg Over Television.” Journalism History 25:3 (Summer 1999): 42-52.
Eisenmann, Thomas R. “The U.S. Cable Television Industry, 1948-1995: Managerial Capitalism in Eclipse.” Business History Review 74 (Spring 2000): 1-40.
Ellerbee, Linda. And So it Goes: Adventures in Television. New York: Putnam, 1987.
Ellison, Harlan. The Glass Teat: Essays of Opinion on the Subject of Television. New York: Ace Books, 1970.
Engelman, Ralph. “The Origins of Public Access Television, 1966-1972.” Journalism Monographs 73 (October 1990).
Engelman, Ralph. Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1996.
Engelman, Ralph. Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Epstein, Edward J. News From Nowhere: Television and the News. New York: Random House, 1973.
Eschler-Fredenrich, Cristi. “Oral Roberts and the Battle to Access National Network Television.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 65:2 (May 2021): 289-310.
Eskridge, Sara K. Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2019.
Everitt, David. A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007.
Fager, Jeff. Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television’s Most Influential News Broadcast. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Falk, Andrew J. “Reading Between the Lines: Negotiating National Identity on American Television, 1945-1960. Diplomatic History 28:2 (2004): 197-225.
Fay, Jennifer. “Atomic Screen Test.” Modernism/Modernity 23:3 (September 2016): 611-630. 1952 broadcast of atomic test
Fickers, Andreas, and Catherine Johnson. “Transnational Television History: A Comparative Approach.” Media History (Abingdon) 16 (February 2010): 1–11.
Fisher, David E. and Marshall Jon Fisher, Tube: The Invention of Television. Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1996.
Fisher, Heather Elise. “Mythologizing Charles Van Doren: The 1950s, the Media, and the Making of Cultural Memory.” PhD dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2011.
Fitzgerald, Michael Ray. “The White Savior and His Junior Partner: The Lone Ranger and Tonto on Cold War Television (1949-1957).” Journal of Popular Culture 46:1 (February 2013): 79-108.
Fitzgerald, Michael Ray. Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the “Good Indian.” Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013.
Fitzgerald, Michael Ray. “The Indianized White Man and the Anglicized Indian: Imperial and Anti-Imperial Discourse in NBC’s Daniel Boone, 1964-1970.” Journal of American Culture 37:3 (September 2014): 281-289.
Flach, Kate L. “America’s Nervous Breakdown: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Popular Psychology, and the Demise of the Housewife in the 1970s.” Journal of 20th Century Media History 1:1 (2023): 3-29.
Foley, Karen Sue. The Political Blacklist in the Broadcasting Industry: The Decade of the 1950s. New York: Arno Press, 1979.
Foote, Joe S. Television Access and Political Power: The Networks, the Presidency, and the Loyal Opposition. New York: Praeger, 1990.
Forman, Murray. One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Forr, James. “Commercial Television Arrives in Missouri: The Birth of ksd-tv in St. Louis.” Missouri Historical Review 105 (July 2011): 233–244.
Foust, James C. and Katherine A. Bradshaw. “Something for the Boys: Framing Images of Women in BroadcastingMagazine in the 1950s.” Journalism History 22:2 (Summer 2007): 93-100.
Foust, James C. “We Need This Television Just Like Any Other American Citizen: The Battle over Western TV Boosters.” American Journalism 35:1 (Winter 2018): 27-49.
Foust, James C. “The Paternalistic Eye: Senator Edwin Johnson and the U.S. Television Freeze.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 38:3 (2018): 584-602.
Frank, Reuven. Out of Thin Air. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Friendly, Fred. Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control. New York: Random House, 1967.
Friendly, Fred W. “The Unselling of ‘The Selling of the Pentagon.” Harpers (June 1971): 30-
Fuller, Linda K. Community Television in the United States: A Sourcebook on Public, Educational, and Governmental Access. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn. “Well!’ Jack Benny’s Unperformative Performance in His Transition from Radio to Television.” Journal of Film & Video 68:3 /4 (Fall/Winter 2016): 18-29.
Galili, Doron. Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
Gans, Herbert. Deciding What’s News. New York: Pantheon, 1979.
Gates, Gary Paul. Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
Gauger, Michael. “Flickering Images: Live Television Coverage and Viewership of the Army–McCarthy Hearings.” Historian 67 (Winter 2005): 678–93.
Getz Rouse, Morleen. “A History of the F. W. Ziv Radio and Television Production and Syndication Companies, 1930-1960.” PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 1976.
Gitlin, Todd. Inside Prime Time, revised edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Gitlin, Todd., ed., Watching Television. New York: Pantheon, 1986.*
Godfrey, Donald G. “CBS World News Roundup: Setting the Stage for the Next Half Century.” American Journalism 7, no. 3 (1990): 164–72.
Godfrey, Donald G. Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001.
Godfrey, Donald G., and Susan L. Brinson, eds. Routledge Reader on Electronic Media History. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Goldenson, Leonard, and Marvin J. Wolf. Beating the Odds: The Untold Story Behind the Rise of ABC. New York: Scribner’s, 1991.
Goldstein, Leigh. “Designing Women! Space, Affect, and Femininity in Postwar American Public Affairs Television.” Critical Studies in Television 9:2 (Summer 2014): 39-53.
Gomery, Douglas. “Rethinking TV History.” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 74:3 (1997): 501-514.
Gomery, Douglas. “Finding TV’s Pioneering Audiences.” Journal of Popular Film & Television 29:3 (Fall 2001): 121-129.
Gomery, Douglas. A History of Broadcasting in the United States. New York: Wiley, 2008.
Gottfried, Erika. “‘TWU ON TV!’ – The Transport Workers’ Union and Television in the Early 1950s and 1960s.” Film History: An International Journal 20, no. 4 (2008): 508-512.
Gould, Lewis L., ed. Watching Television Come of Age: The New York Times Reviews of Jack Gould. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Graham, Allison. Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and the Civil Rights Struggle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Gray, Herman. Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for Blackness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Grieves, Kevin. “A New Age of Diplomacy: International Satellite Television and Town Meeting of the World.” Journalism History 40 (Summer 2014): 98-107.
Grossman, Gary H. Saturday Morning TV. New York: Arlington House, 1987.
Gunther, Marc. The House that Roone Built: The Inside Story of ABC News. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.
Hall, Nick. Zoomar: Frack G. Back and the Postwar Television Zoom Lens.” Technology and Culture 57:2 (2016): 353-379.
Hallin, Daniel C. We Keep America on Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere. London: Routledge, 1994.
Hammond, Charles M., Jr. The Image Decade: Television Documentary, 1965-1975. New York: Hastings House, 1981.
Han, Benjamin M. Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020.
Hanni, Adrian. “A Chance for a Propaganda Coup? The Reagan Administration and The Day After (1983).” Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television 36:3 (2016): 415-435.
Haralovich, Mary Beth, and Laren Rabinovitz, eds. Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Hawes, William. American Television Drama: The Early Years. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1986.
Hay, Peter. Canned Laughter: The Best Stories from Radio and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Hawes, William. Filmed Television Drama, 1952-1958. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.
Heffelfinger, Elizabeth. “Foreign Policy, Domestic Fiction: Government-Sponsored Documentaries and Network Television Promote the Marshall Plan at Home.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television28 (March 2008): 1–21.
Heflin, Kristin. “The Future Will be Televised: Newspaper Industry Voices and the Rise of Television News.” American Journalism 27:2 (Spring 2010): 87-110.
Heitner, Devorah. “Black Power TV: A Cultural History of Black Public Affairs Television, 1968–1980.” PhD dissertation, Northwestern University, 2007.
Hendershot, Heather. When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Henderson, Felicia D. “The Culture Behind Closed Doors: Issues of Gender and Race in the Writers’ Room.” Cinema Journal 50:2 (Winter 2011): 145-152.
Hersey, Curt. “NBC’s That Was the Week that Was as Proto-News Parody in the Network Era.” Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 38:3 (2018): 603-621
Hess, Gary Newton. An Historical Study of the DuMont Television Network. New York: Arno Press, 1979.
Higby, Mary Jane. Tune in Tomorrow. New York: Cowles, 1968.
Hoerschelmann, Olaf. Rules of the Game: Quiz Shows and American Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.
Horwitz, Jonah. “Visual Style in the ‘Golden Age’ Anthology Drama: The Case of CBS.” Cinemas 23:2/3 (2013): 39-68.
Howard, Herbert H. “Television Station Ownership in the United States: A Comprehensive Study (1940-2005).” Journalism and Communication Monographs 8:1 (Spring 2006).
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