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The origins of television news in America : the visualizers of CBS in the 1940s
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- Creator
- Mike Conway
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Peter Lang, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781433106026, 1433106027
- OCLC
- ocn320435076
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-378) and index.
- The back story of television and broadcast journalism -- Radio news in World War II and the rise of television -- The beginning of commercial television in America -- The ambitious birth of television news -- Television during World War II : improvisation amidst shortages -- The fight over postwar television -- The power of the visuals : journalists dismiss the potential of television news -- Postwar news : rediscovering local and national stories -- A guest in the living room : the evolution of the television newscaster -- The 1948 political conventions : politicians and journalists meet the "all-encompassing eye" -- Lost autonomy : television success brings more oversight and competition -- The new mass medium : the CBS newscast emerges as television's news format -- The impact and importance of the 1940s CBS television newscasts