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TELEVISION QUARTERLY....Volume XXXVIIII - Numbers 3 & 4 Spring / Summer 2008
Video Games Beat Hollywood for Vast Income
By John V. Pavlik
When All-Digital TV Arrives, Will We Be Ready?
by Peter B. Seel
They Beat the Clock: NBC's Innovative Newsmagazine
David Brinkley's Journal. By Thomas A. Mascaro
He Discovered Oprath: Bill Baker's Extraordinary Decade at Westinghouse.
By Mort Silverstein
Is PBS Still Necessary? You Bet It Is, Says Its Newest Recruit
By Fritz Jacobi
How Nations Use The Olympics To Burnish Thier Public Images
By gred Vitiello.
Human Rughts, Pollution Issues and the Coverage of Beijing Olympics
By Josephine Witte
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Seinfeld 10 Years Later: Was It Over-rated?
By Stephen Winzenburg
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REVIEW AND COMMENT

The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News,
By Roger Mudd - Reviewed by Bernard S. Redmont

Rupert Murdoch’s China Adventure: How the World’s Most Powerful Media Mogul Lost a Fortune and Found a Wife
By Bruce Dover - Reviewed by William F. Snyder

A Word from Our Viewers: Reflections from Early Television Audiences, By Ray Barfield;
Big Pictures on the Small Screen: Made-for-TV Movies and Anthology Dramas, By Alvin H. Marill; and Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television, by Patrick R. Parsons - Reviewed by Ron Simon

A History of Broadcasting in the United States, by Douglas Gomery - Reviewed by Kenneth Harwood

Television in the Multichannel Age: A Brief History of Cable Television,
By Megan Mullen - Reviewed by Norman Felsenthal


 

FALLEN HEROES
Tributes to James Day by Richard O. Moore and Robert Isaacson;
to John Jay Iselin by John Pope; and to Kirk Browning by Brian Rose