Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. PART ONE. Liberal Television
6. ONE. The Fact of Television: A Theoretical Prologue 3
7. TWO. Liberalism, Corporate Liberalism 22
8. THREE. A Revisionist History of Broadcasting, 1900-1934 59
9. PART TWO. The Politics of Broadcast Policy in a Corporate Liberal State
10. FOUR. Inside the Beltway as an Interpretive Community: The Politics of Policy 113
11. FIVE. Postmodem Property: Toward a New Political Economy of Broadcasting 163
12. PART THREE. Selling the Air: Property Creation and the Privilege of Communication
13. SIX. "But Not the Ownership Thereof": The Peculiar Property Status of the Broadcast License 219
14. SEVEN. Broadcast Copyright and the Vicissitudes of Authorship in Electronic Culture 256
15. EIGHT. Viewing as Property: Broadcasting's Audience Commodity 275
16. NINE. Toward a New Politics of Electronic Media 309
17. Index 329