Audience flow past and present: Television inheritance effects reconsidered

Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 323-337

  Webster, James G ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33751573714     PISSN: 08838151     EISSN: 15506878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15506878jobem5002_9     Document Type: Review

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