by Murray, Michael D; Godfrey, Donald G
Book / 1997

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TitleTelevision in America : local station history from across the nation
Item typeBook
Author(s)
  • Murray, Michael D
  • Godfrey, Donald G
Edition1st ed
ImprintAmes Iowa State University Press, 1997
ISBN0813829690
LanguageEnglish
URLLink to original record
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-406) and index.
  • Tackling the TV titans in their own backyard: WABC-TV, New York City -- The Hustler: WTNH-TV, New Haven -- Forgotten pioneer: Philco's WPTZ, Philadelphia -- Capitalizing on the Capital: WMAL-TV -- WSB-TV, Atlanta: the "Eyes of the South" -- "Foremost in service, best in entertainment": WHAS-TV, Louisville -- WTVJ, Miami: Wolfson, Renick, and "May the good news be yours" -- A TV pioneer's crusade for civil rights in the segregated South: WFTV, Orlando, Florida -- The Nation's station: WLWT-TV, Cincinnati -- A West Texan fulfills his dream: KDUB-TV, Lubbock -- First in education: WOI-TV, Ames, Iowa -- Pulitzer's prize: KSD- TV, St. Louis -- News in the heartland: WBBM-TV, Chicago - - News leader: WCCO-TV, Minneapolis -- In the public interest: WEWS-TV, Cleveland -- "In the heartland": WDAF- TV, Kansas City -- The West coast's first television station: KCBS, Los Angeles -- Paramount's KTLA: the leading station in early Los Angeles televsion -- KSL, Salt Lake City: "At the crossroads of the West" -- San Francisco's first televsion station: KPIX -- KING-TV, Seattle: King of the Northwest -- Alaska's television frontier: Northern Television, Inc., and the Augie Hiebert story.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.
Physical descriptionxxvii, 428 p. ; 24 cm.

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1997
Author: 
Murray, Michael DGodfrey, Donald G
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Iowa State University Press
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