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Watching TV

Harry Castleman

1982314 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1982
first published
  • 1982McGraw-Hill · 314 pages · ENGISBN 9780070102682
  • 2024Syracuse University Press · ENGISBN 9780815611721
  • 2016Syracuse University Press · 576 pages · ENGISBN 9780815634386

"Castleman and Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season story, capturing the essence of television from its inception to the contemporary era of anytime access and online streaming, including every prime time fall schedule since 1944. The authors have dug through the mounds of obscure facts offbeat anecdotes, and corporate strategies that have made television a multibillion-dollar industry. Watching TV provides a fascinating history of how the personalities, popular shows, and coverage of key events have evolved across eight decades. Full of facts, firsts, insights, and exploits, as well as rare and memorable photographs, Watching TV is the standard history of American television. This third edition includes coverage up through the mid-2010s and looks ahead to the next waves of change"--Page [4] of cover.

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