Television talk : a history of the TV talk show /
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Austin, Tex. :
University of Texas Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- INTRODUCTION: By Horace Newcomb
- ONE: HISTORY OF TELEVISION TALK: Defining a Genre
- INTRODUCTION
- UNSPOKEN RULES
- HISTORY
- THREE MAJOR SUBGENRES
- CYCLES
- STAR HOSTS
- TALK WORLDS
- TWO: THE FIRST CYCLE (1948-1962): Experimentation, Consolidation, and Network Control-CBS
- INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST CYCLE
- FOUNDERS AT CBS: Murrow and Godfrey
- CLOSE-UP: ''THE CASE OF MILO RADULOVICH, '' SEE IT NOW, OCTOBER 20, 1953
- THREE: THE FIRST CYCLE, PART II: Experimentation, Consolidation, and Network Control-NBC and DuMont.
- SYLVESTER ''PAT'' WEAVER: NBC's Executive Visionary of Television Talk (1949-1955)
- DAVE GARROWAY (1952-1961)
- ARLENE FRANCIS AND HOME (1954-1957)
- CLOSE-UP: ARLENE FRANCIS' LAST HOME SHOW, AUGUST 9, 1957, NBC
- STEVE ALLEN, JACK PAAR, AND TONIGHT! Founding Traditions of Late-Night Entertainment Talk (1954-1962)
- CLOSE-UP: JACK PAAR'S WALK OFF THE SET OF THE TONIGHT SHOW, FEBRUARY 1960
- MIKE WALLACE: The Grand Inquisitor of Television Talk (1956-1958)
- CONCLUSION
- FOUR: THE SECOND CYCLE (1962-1974): Network Consolidation and New Challenges
- INTRODUCTION.
- JOHNNY CARSON AND THE TONIGHT SHOW (1962-1967)
- MIKE WALLACE: ''The Grand Inquisitor'' Returns (1962-1967)
- BARBARA WALTERS: ''The Tender Trap'' (1962-1967)
- CHALLENGES TO NETWORK DOMINATION (1969-1974)
- PHIL DONAHUE (1967-1974)
- FIVE: COMPETITIVE FERMENT IN THE LATE SECOND CYCLE: The First Late-Night Talk-Show Wars (1967-1974)
- INTRODUCTION
- THE CHALLENGERS: Bishop, Frost, Griffin, and Cavett
- CLOSE-UP: NORMAN MAILER VS. GORE VIDAL ON THE DICK CAVETT SHOW, ABC, DECEMBER 1, 1971
- JOHNNY CARSON (1967-1974)
- CONCLUSION
- SIX: THE THIRD CYCLE (1974-1980): Transitions.
- 1974: A Year of Change
- WATERGATE AS NATIONAL TALK EVENT
- NEW VOICES IN SYNDICATION: Phil Donahue and Mike Douglas
- AN INDEPENDENT VOICE: Bill Moyers
- THE VOICES OF WOMEN: Barbara Walters and Dinah Shore
- BATTLING FROM WITHIN: Johnny Carson and NBC (1974-1980)
- CLOSE-UP: JOHNNY CARSON'S TONIGHT: ''THE EXECUTION GAME, '' A CENSORED MONOLOGUE ROUTINE, JANUARY 18, 1977, NBC
- CONCLUSION: The End of the Network Era
- SEVEN: THE FOURTH CYCLE (1980-1990): The Post-Network Era
- INTRODUCTION
- DAVID LETTERMAN AND THE REINVENTION OF THE LATE-NIGHT TALK SHOW.
- CLOSE-UP: LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN
- ''AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE'': The Genesis of ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel
- CLOSE-UP: NEWS TALK, ENTERTAINMENT TALK, AND THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR REACTOR DISASTER OF 1986
- NEW HOSTS, NEW AUDIENCES
- JOAN RIVERS AND THE LATE-NIGHT TALK-SHOW WARS OF 1986-1987
- OPRAH WINFREY
- GERALDO RIVERA
- ARSENIO HALL
- NEW CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE POWER OF TV TALK
- EIGHT: THE FIFTH CYCLE (1990-1995): News as Entertainment
- INTRODUCTION
- LENO, LETTERMAN, AND THE LATE-NIGHT TALK-SHOW WARS (1992-1995).
