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TELEVISION QUARTERLY...... Volume XXXVII - Numbers 1 FALL

The Paley Media Center: A TV Professional is in Charge
By Fritz Jacobi. An exclusive interview with CEO Pat Mitchell.

Broadband Mobile Media: Digital Video Goes Wireless
By John V. Pavlik. a new-media expert who dramatizes the surging use of hand-held devices.

Chávez Promotes Robust, Uncensored News Media in Venezuela
By Andrés Izarra, a former independent broadcaster now defending the administration.

Chávez Does No Such Thing
By Carlos Lauria of the Committee to Protect Journalists, who shows that press freedom conditions have seriously deteriorated under President Hugo Chávez.

So You Won’t Have Nixon to Kick Around Any More?
By Greg Vitiello, who compares the Broadway play “Frost/Nixon” with the real-life interviews and ascertains that the villain of the play is television!

Bob and Ray: Their Rocky Start on Network Radio and Television in 1951
By David Pollock, an award-winning TV comedy writer, who traces the duo’s early difficulties.

Sitcoms? Wrong Name
By David Horowitz, who believes that situations are not funny: It’s what the people in those situations say and do that make them funny.

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REVIEW AND COMMENT
A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television
By David Everitt - Reviewed by Bernard S. Redmont

Dimensions Behind The Twilight Zone
By Stewart T. Stanyard - Reviewed by John V. Pavlik Television

Tightrope: How I Escaped Hitler, Survived CBS and Fathered Viacom
By Ralph Baruch, with Lee Broderick h - Reviewed by by Fritz Jacobi

Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television
By Lee Siegel - Reviewed by Earl Pomerantz

The Sopranos: The Book
By Brett Martin - Reviewed by Ron Simon

Same Time, Same Station
By James L. Baughman - Reviewed by Norman Felsenthal

Something on My Own: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956 ByGlenn D. Smith, Jr. - Reviewed by David Marc