A taste of class: Pay-TV and the commodification of television in postwar America

Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 44-65

  McMurria, John ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. Thomas Streeter, Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 109-10.
2. Laurie Ouellette, Viewers Like You: How Public TV Failed the People (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).
3. See David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005); Cable Communications Policy Act, Public Law 98-549 (1984).
4. David H. Ostroff, "A History of STV, Inc. and the 1964 California Vote Against Pay Television," Journal of Broadcasting 27, no. 4 (Fall 1983): 371-86; Mullen, "The Pre-History of Pay Cable Television," 46-47; Gershon, "Pay Cable Television," 14-15.
5. Steven M. Gillion, Politics and Vision: The ADA and American Liberalism, 1947-1985 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), viii-ix.
6. Mark Fowler and Daniel Brenner, "A Marketplace Approach to Broadcast Regulation," Texas Law Review 60 (1982): 207-57.
7. Mark Cooper, Cable Mergers,Monopoly Power and Price Increases (Washington, DC: Consumer's Union, 2003); http://www.consumersunion.org/pdf/CFA103.pdf (accessed February 19, 2004).
8. Kim Hart and Sara Kehaulani Goo, " 'Net Neutrality' Amendment Rejected," The Washington Post, June 29, 2006, D5.
9. See Website Optimization, "U.S.-Canadian Broadband Penetration Gap at 20 Points," http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0506/(accessed August 13, 2006).
10. Frieden, "Lessons from Broadband Development in Canada, Japan, Korea and the United States," 595-613.