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TELEVISION QUARTERLY...... Volume XXXVI - Number 2

And the Emmy Goes to...A Mobisode?
By John Carey and Lawrence Greenberg, who reveal the potential impact of such non-traditional viewing devices as computers, mobile phones, iPods, PDAs and portable media players.

What Now for Audience-Measurement Techniques?
By Susan Whiting, the Nielsen chief, who spotlights challenges of the digital revolution that enable viewers to watch in their own time.

How to Save Public Broadcasting
By Mary G.F. Bitterman, PBS chair, who prescribes a solution for the beleaguered enterprise.

An Eyewitness to History
The late Peter Jennings revealed his innermost beliefs in an exclusive interview with Everette Dennis and Huntington Williams.

Cutting Teeth in Front of the Screen
By Carla Seal-Wanner, an expert on interactive media for children who argues that an electronic toy cannot substitute for face-to-face interaction with a loving parent.

Cool Medium Hot
By Gary Kenton, who notes that during the early years of television, local stations aired music whose revolutionary beat advanced the cause of civil rights.

The Big Chase
By Philippe Perebinossoff, a former network executive who describes how true-life made-for-TV movies start with the race for rights to the story.

Saving Our Legacy: Archiving Television at the Crossroads
By Lisa R. Carter, a professional archivist who shows how TV can preserve its heritage for the future.

Cleavage Control!
By Bob Pondillo, who describes how 50s TV dealt with bra and girdle advertising:
Very carefully!

An Opposing View
By Richard G. Carter, who claims that The Cosby Show did not validate the belief
in the American dream, in a disagreement with Mary Ann Watson’s Summer 2005
Television Quarterly article about the new Black Family Channel.

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REVIEW AND COMMENT
Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media
by Craig Crawford - Reviewed by Bernard S. Redmont

Created By...Inside the Minds of TV’s Top Show Creators
by Steven Priggé - Reviewed by Keith Damron

Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen and the Original Tonight Show
by Ben Alba - Reviewed by Bernard Timberg

Tele-visionaries: The People Behind the Invention of Television
by Richard C. Webb - Reviewed by Donald G. Godfrey

The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards and the Circulation of Cultural Value
by James F. English - Reviewed by Kenneth Harwood

REVIEW AND COMMENT: DVDs & FILMS
“A Face in the Crowd”
DVD of the 1957 Elia Kazan film based on a Budd Schulberg novel - Reviewed by David Marc

“Scenes from a Marriage” and “Fanny and Alexander”
DVDs of two Ingmar Bergman TV series - Reviewed by Ron Simon

“Good Night, and Good Luck”
The 2005 theatrical film dramatizing Edward R. Murrow’s confrontation with Senator Joseph McCarthy - Reviewed by Greg Vitiello