Television and Radio History: A Resource Bibliography

• Communication & Mass Media Complete

• ProQuest (Multiple Databases)

• Plunkett Research Online (Industry information)
  

• Communication Abstracts 

• America: History and Life

Of Related Interest

• Television: History, J.L. Baughman
  
• Article from the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

• Television's Future
• Article from CQ Researcher

• Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, Luther F. Sies (2000)

• Encyclopedia of American Television : Broadcast Programming Post WWII to 2000, Ronald W. Lackman (2003)
  

• A History of Early Television, Stephen Herbert (2004)
  

• Watching TV : Six Decades of American Television, Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik (2003)
  

• Encyclopedia of New Media : An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology, Steve Jones (2003)
  

• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (2000)
  

• The Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Radio, Christopher H. Sterling and Michael Keith (2004)
  

• The Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television, Horace Newcomb (2004)
  
• 1st edition available online
  

• A History of Broadcasting in the United States, Erik Barnouw (3 volumes, 1966-1970)
  

• Stay Tuned : A History of American Broadcasting, Christopher H. Sterling and John Michael Kittross (2002)

• Kagan's Media Trends, Paul Kagan Associates (dates vary 2001, 2005)
  

• Social Trends and Indicators USA, Arsen J. Darnay (4 volumes; 2003)
  

• Dawn of the eye
• Six-part series traces the evolution of film and television broadcast journalism
• Impact on the perception of world events
• Profiles major journalists and newscasters such as Edward R. Murrow, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, and Walter Cronkite
  

• New Vistas for Television [Public policy issues in the 1950s-1960s]
• Host: Eleanor Roosevelt, co-host: Marya Mannes, Interviewees: Newton Minow (Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission), John F. White (president of the National Education Television and Radio Center), Irving Gitlin (executive producer, Creative Projects, NBC)
• The panel considers whether the television of the future will be a wasteland of mediocre programming or a vital conduit of culture

• Library of American Broadcasting : Keeping the Past for the Future

• Online, searchable companion to the Library of American Broadcasting collection at the University of Maryland Libraries
• Includes example files from a few of the audio and image collections
  
• Online exhibit of materials on women in broadcasting history
• Easy-to-use resource for researchers interested in locating rare primary source materials on the history of broadcasting (American Library Association, Choice reviews)

• History of Communications
• This Federal Communications Commission Web site divides communications history into 3 areas:
• Technological History of Television
• Radio Pioneers & Core Technologies
• The Internet : a Short History of Getting Connected

• Yahoo! News Directory : History of Broadcasting (Radio)

• Yahoo! News Directory : History of Broadcasting (Television)