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Television and Radio History: A Resource Bibliography

 

Contact

Debora Cheney
Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian, and, Head, Library Services to the World Campus/Penn State Online
814-863-1345

or Your Campus Librarian

 

Articles and Databases

  • Communication & Mass Media Complete
    • Resource of scholarly journals and other communication periodicals
    • International scope
    • Directs users to full-text articles, or prompts for articles available via Interlibrary Loan
  • Academic Search Complete
    • Multi-disciplinary database with full-text periodicals, trade publications and peer-reviewed journals
    • Includes monographs (books), reports, and conference proceedings
    • Many articles in PDF format
  • ProQuest (Multiple Databases)
    • Database of scholarly journals, trade magazines and other periodicals and business news sources; U.S. and international sources
    • Good source of current business news and analysis of media companies and industry trends from trade publications
    • Search for entities (“MTV Asia”) or subjects (“history of radio”)
    • Full-text articles
  • Plunkett Research Online (Industry information) 
    • Industry Research Center
    • Entertainment & Media
    • Market Research & Trends
    • Company Profiles
    • Historic Data
  • America: History and Life
    • Index of literature covering history and culture of U.S and Canada
    • Indexing for 1700 journals from as far back as 1910

Of Related Interest

Print

Statistical Sources

DVD/VHS Sources

  • 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

Websites & Search Engines

Websites