The magic window: American television, 1939-1953

Abstract

* Preface * Chapter 1. The Beginning of Everything * Television's Debut * The Jenkins System * RCA * Television's First Season * Test-Marketing in Newburgh * The FCC's First Report on TV * The Amber Light * Hearings in Washington * Chapter 2. A Torch of * The Future Appears in Newburgh * The War in Europe * The 1940 Republican Convention * A Disappointing Fall * Debating TV's Future in 1941 * Chapter 3. In a Troubled World * The 1941 FCC Hearings * The Beginning of Commercial TV * The Summer of 1941 * The Buildup to War * Wartime * Schenectady's WRGB * Plans for Postwar TV * As a War Weapon * The Studios Reopen * TV's First Censored Program * Chapter 4. The Winds of Postwar * The Homefront TV War * The 1944 Conventions * TV Programs Blossom Again * Docket No. 6651 * TV and the End of the War * Chapter 5. Turning the Corner * The Camera with the Eyes of a Cat * TV Begins in Washington * The Louis-Conn Fight * Hour Glass * The New Postwar Sets * The Bikini Bomb Explosion * Surveying the TV Viewer * The Emerging Genres * Drama in Washington * The First Color Telecasts * Integration on TV * The Second Wave of TV Stations * The Split TV Audience * and Women * Middlebrow * Chapter 6. From to Berle * The 1947 World Series * Puppet Playhouse * The Expanding Network * The Original Amateur Network * Miss of * Mr. Television * The 1948 Conventions * The Cold War on * CBS's Revival * The Big Freeze * The 1948 Election * Selling Sugar and Tobacco * Radio Takes Notice * Chapter 7. Conflicts in the Air * Kukla, Fran and Ollie * The Cultural Backlash Begins * Censoring TV's Contents * The Golden Hope and The Goldbergs * The Admiral Broadway Revue * The Berle Phenomenon * A Midseason Slump * Wrestling and Roller Derby * The 1949 World Series * The Chicago School of * Cavalcade of Stars * Hopalong Cassidy * The New Bomb and the Scare * Faye Emerson * TV's Effects on Children * Chapter 8. Comics and Communists * Your Show of Shows * The Bandit Raid on Korea * Red Channels * The Invasion of Comics * Jack Benny and Fred Allen * Groucho Marx and Martin and Lewis * Jackie Gleason and the Cavalcade of Stars * Truman and MacArthur * Expanding the Daily Schedule * Chapter 9. Linking Coast to Coast * Color TV Begins * The Crime Commission Hearings * Amos 'n' Andy * and the Coast-to-Coast Link * The Birth of I Love Lucy * The Hollywood Boom Begins * The Today Show * New Hampshire and * The Freeze Is Lifted * Lucy Takes Over * The 1952 Conventions * Congress and the Code * The FCC and Blacklisting * Dragnet * Live Drama from New York * Chapter 10. Liking Ike and Loving Lucy * The Checkers Speech * Lucy is Pregnant * Ozzie and Harriet * See It Now * The Birth and the Inauguration * The ABC-Paramount Merger * The End of the Du Mont Network * The End of the Beginning * Notes * Index * Reference Notes Included

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