Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, Expanded Second Edition (Television and Popular Culture)

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Castleman and Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season survey,capturing the essence of television from its inception to the present. Theauthors have dug through mounds of obscure facts, offbeat anecdotes,and the complicated network strategies that have made television amultibillion-dollar industry. By presenting every prime-time schedule, seasonby season, from the fall of 1944, Watching TV provides a fascinatinghistory of how the personalities, popular shows, and coverage of keyevents have evolved during the past six decades.Full of facts, firsts, insights, and exploits, as well as rare and memorablephotographs, Watching TV is the standard history of Americantelevision. This expanded edition includes thorough coverage up to the2009–10 television season.