Same Time, Same Station

James L. Baughman is professor and director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941 and Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media, both published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Opening Number2. "The Mother of Television"3. The Marionette and the Cross-Dresser4. The Regulators5. "Mr. Spectacular"6. Paley's Choice7. "We Just See That It Isn't Lousy"8. The Patrons9. "Informed without Being Ponderous"10. Shooting the Wounded11. Signing OffNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

Baughman's study is interesting from a policy point of view... it is also evocative as a spin through the index will show. History Wire 2007 Baughman tells a familiar story-commerce crushes cultural aspiration-but he adds fresh and fascinating details from behind the scenes at the television networks. And he avoid nostalgia for a 'golden age' of television that never was. Philadelphia Inquirer 2007 The period that Baughman covers is the 'golden age of television'-the much mourned era of dramas by Paddy Chayefsky and documentaries by Edward R. Murrow... Although Baughman is scrupulously respectful of the achievements of Weaver, Murrow, and other heroes of fifties television, he never misses a chance to offer up contrarian material. -- Nicholas Lemann New Yorker 2007 Though not the first study of this period, this is surely one of the more readable and insightful - and well documented. -- Chris Sterling Communication Booknotes Quarterly 2007 This book is full of interesting stories and facts. Summing Up: Essential. Choice 2007 College-level collections strong in media history will find this an attractive addition... accessible even to lay readers. Midwest Book Review 2008 The most thorough, well-researched, and broad-ranging history of television we have to date... Baughman's achievement is a major one. Business History Review 2007 Readers of Journalism History... are urged to read this book. -- Alexander Russo Journalism History 2008 A thought-provoking book... Does a masterful job of engaging the academic discourse and media theory. -- Andrew J. Falk Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Same Time, Same Station is a scholarly pleasure to explore and should be in every university library where media studies are taken seriously. -- Peter C. Rollins Journal of American History 2010