"This personal narrative is co-authored by William Lowell "Bill" Putnam and Kathryn Elizabeth "Kitty" Putnam. Bill and Kitty recall how they labored for survival during the "dozen lean years" between 1952 and 1964, and the events along their way to leadership in analog televisio…
"This personal narrative is co-authored by William Lowell "Bill" Putnam and Kathryn Elizabeth "Kitty" Putnam. Bill and Kitty recall how they labored for survival during the "dozen lean years" between 1952 and 1964, and the events along their way to leadership in analog televisio…
"This personal narrative is co-authored by William Lowell "Bill" Putnam and Kathryn Elizabeth "Kitty" Putnam. Bill and Kitty recall how they labored for survival during the "dozen lean years" between 1952 and 1964, and the events along their way to leadership in analog televisio…
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Tells how radio and television became an integral part of American life, of how a toy became an industry and a force in politics, business, education, religion, and international affairs.
The broadcasting industry's trade association, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), sought to sanitize television content via its self-regulatory document, the Television Code. The Code covered everything from the stories, images, and sounds of TV programs (no profani…
Many proclaimed the "end of television" in the early years of the twenty-first century, as capabilities and features of the boxes that occupied a central space in American living rooms for the preceding fifty years were radically remade. In this revised, second edition of her de…
