Volume 18, Number 4 · March 9, 1972
The TV Racket
By Leonard Ross
A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States to 1933
by Erik Barnouw
Oxford University Press, 344 pp., $9.00
The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, 1933-1953
by Erik Barnouw
Oxford University Press, 391 pp., $9.00
The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953
by Erik Barnouw
Oxford University Press, 396 pp., $9.75
Televi$ion: The Business Behind the Box
by Les Brown
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 374 pp., $8.95
Cable Television in the Cities: Community Control, Public Access, Minority Ownership The Television of Abundance, Report of the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications, McGraw-Hill, 256 pp., $2.95. The reviewer participated as a consultant in the report)
edited by Charles Tate
Urban Institute, 184 pp., $3.95 (another recent report on cable television is On the Cable: (paper)
Guerrilla Television
by Michael Shamberg. and Raindance Corporation
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 104 pp., $3.95 (paper)
In 1927, Philo T. Farnsworth, a backyard inventor, and his financial backer, George Everson, gathered for a demonstration of Farnsworth's television apparatus. For the first time, Farnsworth successfully transmitted several graphic designs, including a dollar sign. As Everson recalled later, 'It seemed to jump out at us on the screen.'
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