The Golden Age of Boston Television /
A fascinating account of local television in Boston from the 1970s to the early 1990s, when it offered the best local programming in America.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Lebanon, NH :
University Press of New England,
[2017]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Part I: The transformation of the Boston TV market
- Market forces set the stage
- WBZ-TV: Channel 4 lays the groundwork
- WCVB-TV: Channel 5 blastoff!
- WNEV-TV: channel 7 declares war
- Part II: Local television and Boston's culture
- The life of a TV critic
- "Banned in Boston"
- Isms & schisms: race, gender, and sexual orientation
- Duke runs for president in 1988: the locals go national
- Epilogue: Fade to black.


