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The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953

Erik Barnouw

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The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953

During the 1950s, in a frontier atmosphere of enterprise and sharp struggle, an American television system took shape. But even as it did so, its pioneers pushed beyond American borders and became programmers to scores of other nations. In its first decade United States television was already a world phenomenon. Since American radio had for some time had international ramifications, American images and sounds were radiating from transmitter towers throughout the globe. They were called entertainment or news or education but were always more. They were a reflection of a growing United States involvement in the lives of other nations—an involvement of imperial scope. The role of broadcasters in this American expansion and in the era that produced it is the subject matter of The Image Empire, the last of three volumes comprising this study.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1970
ISBN-13
9780195012590
Genre
History
Topics
History of broadcastingAmerican television industryMedia globalization

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