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Dunning, John. On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press, 1998. American radio shows from their beginnings in the 1920s to the early 1960s.

Maltin, Leonard. The Great American Broadcast: A Celebration of Radio's Golden Age. Dutton, 1997. Behind-the-mike voices tell the inside story of radio's golden years.

Barnouw, Erik. Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television. Oxford University Press, 1982, 1990. History of radio and television broadcasting; based on the author's standard three-volume work.

Cloud, Stanley, and Lynne Olson. The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism. Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Study of CBS radio correspondents hired by American radio and television executive Edward R. Murrow before and during World War II; also discusses the postwar period.

Engelman, Ralph. Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History. Sage, 1996. History of public broadcasting in America from the 1930s.

Newcomb, Horace, ed. Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. Information and analysis on individuals, programs, networks, specialty channels, and more.

Ritchie, Michael. Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television. Overlook, 1994. Illustrated early history of television from the 1920s to 1948.

Wakin, Edward. How TV Changed America's Mind. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1996. Examines news and documentaries to show the significance of television in American history from the 1950s to the 1990s; for middle school to adult readers.

Winship, Michael. Television. Random House, 1987, 1988. History of an extraordinary revolution, with interviews and photographs.

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Blumenthal, Howard J., and Oliver Goodenough. This Business of Television. 2nd ed. Watson-Guptill, 1998. The inner workings of the television industry.

Fisher, David E., and Marshall Jon Fisher. Tube: The Invention of Television. Harcourt Brace, 1997. Technological history of the invention of television.

Lembo, Ron. Thinking Through Television. Cambridge University Press, 2000. An engaging investigation of American viewing habits.

McNeil, Alex. Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present. Viking Penguin, 1996. Includes reviews on thousands of series and syndicated shows, with Nielsen's Top Twenty, Emmy and Peabody Award winners, an index of television personalities, and more.

Newcomb, Horace, and others, eds. Encyclopedia of Television. 3 vols. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996. Covers television programs and people, primarily in the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia.

Smith, Anthony, and Richard Paterson, eds. Television: An International History. Oxford University Press, 1998. Describes television from its technical conception in the 19th century through the multimedia developments of the present. Includes illustrations.

Swann, Phillip. TV dot COM: The Future of Interactive Television. TV Books, 2000. A look at how interactive television will radically alter our domestic lives; based on interviews with industry insiders.

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