"TV Guide": Images of the Status Quo, 1970-1979.

Dye, Jean E.; Harmon, Mark D.

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Publication Date: 1987

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"TV Guide": Images of the Status Quo, 1970-1979.

Dye, Jean E.; Harmon, Mark D.

Journalism Quarterly, v64 n2-3 p626-29 Sum-Fall 1987

Analyzes 521 "TV Guide" cover stories from 1970-1979, examining their power to influence television audiences. Asserts that, although viewer options increased substantially throughout the 1970s, "TV Guide" failed to keep pace with those changes. (MM)

Descriptors: Cable Television, Commercial Television, Popular Culture, Programing (Broadcast), Public Television, Television Viewing

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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