Stuart Cunningham is Professor of Media and Journalism at Queensland University of Technology. Graeme Turner is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. They are editors of the leading textbook The Media in Australia and authors of many other works on the media.

• Table of ContentsFIGURESCONTRIBUTORSPart A: INTRODUCTORY CONTEXTS1. Studying Television Graeme Turner2. History, Contexts, Politics, Policy Stuart CunninghamPart B: THE SECTORS3. Commercial Networks: Still the Ones? Jock Given4. Public Service TV: An Endangered Species? Elizabeth Jacka5. Television After Broadcasting Terry Flew and Christina SpurgeonPart C: THE GENRES6. Television News and Current Affairs: 'Welcome to Frontline' Graeme Turner7. Lifestyle Programs: 'No choice but to choose' Frances Bonner8. Soap Opera: 'No End of Story, Ever' Kate Bowles9. Sport: The Genre that Runs and Runs David Rowe10. Primetime Drama: 77 Sunset Strip to Seachange Alan McKee11. The Television Live Event: From the 'Wandering Booby' to the 'Death of History' John HartleyPart D: THE AUDIENCE12.

Stuart Cunningham is Professor of Media and Journalism at Queensland University of Technology. Graeme Turner is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. They are editors of the leading textbook The Media in Australia and authors of many other works on the media.

• Table of ContentsFIGURESCONTRIBUTORSPart A: INTRODUCTORY CONTEXTS1. Studying Television Graeme Turner2. History, Contexts, Politics, Policy Stuart CunninghamPart B: THE SECTORS3. Commercial Networks: Still the Ones? Jock Given4. Public Service TV: An Endangered Species? Elizabeth Jacka5. Television After Broadcasting Terry Flew and Christina SpurgeonPart C: THE GENRES6. Television News and Current Affairs: 'Welcome to Frontline' Graeme Turner7. Lifestyle Programs: 'No choice but to choose' Frances Bonner8. Soap Opera: 'No End of Story, Ever' Kate Bowles9. Sport: The Genre that Runs and Runs David Rowe10. Primetime Drama: 77 Sunset Strip to Seachange Alan McKee11. The Television Live Event: From the 'Wandering Booby' to the 'Death of History' John HartleyPart D: THE AUDIENCE12.

Stuart Cunningham is Professor of Media and Journalism at Queensland University of Technology. Graeme Turner is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. They are editors of the leading textbook The Media in Australia and authors of many other works on the media.

• Table of ContentsFIGURESCONTRIBUTORSPart A: INTRODUCTORY CONTEXTS1. Studying Television Graeme Turner2. History, Contexts, Politics, Policy Stuart CunninghamPart B: THE SECTORS3. Commercial Networks: Still the Ones? Jock Given4. Public Service TV: An Endangered Species? Elizabeth Jacka5. Television After Broadcasting Terry Flew and Christina SpurgeonPart C: THE GENRES6. Television News and Current Affairs: 'Welcome to Frontline' Graeme Turner7. Lifestyle Programs: 'No choice but to choose' Frances Bonner8. Soap Opera: 'No End of Story, Ever' Kate Bowles9. Sport: The Genre that Runs and Runs David Rowe10. Primetime Drama: 77 Sunset Strip to Seachange Alan McKee11. The Television Live Event: From the 'Wandering Booby' to the 'Death of History' John HartleyPart D: THE AUDIENCE12.