Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author or editor of several books on media history, including Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable (1990), Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922-1952 (1997); Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States (3rd ed. 2010); The Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio (2001), The Television History Book (2003), and NBC: America’s Network (2007).

"Michele Hilmes, a leading media historian in the USA, has made an important contribution to the comparative study of the development of radio and television in America and Britain. The British public service tradition and the American commercial model have had more in common than is generally supposed, as Hilmes demonstrates in her clear and readable account of their intertwined histories." --Professor Paddy Scannell, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan

• Introduction: Thinking Transnationally: The Anglo-American Axis I. The Nations Imagine Radio, 1922 to 1938 1. Chaos and Control 2. National Broadcasting in Britain 3. The "American System" II. Trans-Atlantic Convergence, 1938 to 1946 4. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute 5. The Politics and Poetics of Neutrality 6. In It Together: Wartime Radio III. Television, Trade, and Transculturation, 1946 to 1975 7. Disentangling and Differentiation, 1946 to 1955 8. New Directions and Disputes, 1955 to 1964 9. Transatlantic Partnerships, 1964 to 1980 10. Toward "Globalization"

Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author or editor of several books on media history, including Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable (1990), Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922-1952 (1997); Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States (3rd ed. 2010); The Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio (2001), The Television History Book (2003), and NBC: America’s Network (2007).

"Michele Hilmes, a leading media historian in the USA, has made an important contribution to the comparative study of the development of radio and television in America and Britain. The British public service tradition and the American commercial model have had more in common than is generally supposed, as Hilmes demonstrates in her clear and readable account of their intertwined histories." --Professor Paddy Scannell, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan

• Introduction: Thinking Transnationally: The Anglo-American Axis I. The Nations Imagine Radio, 1922 to 1938 1. Chaos and Control 2. National Broadcasting in Britain 3. The "American System" II. Trans-Atlantic Convergence, 1938 to 1946 4. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute 5. The Politics and Poetics of Neutrality 6. In It Together: Wartime Radio III. Television, Trade, and Transculturation, 1946 to 1975 7. Disentangling and Differentiation, 1946 to 1955 8. New Directions and Disputes, 1955 to 1964 9. Transatlantic Partnerships, 1964 to 1980 10. Toward "Globalization"

Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author or editor of several books on media history, including Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable (1990), Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922-1952 (1997); Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States (3rd ed. 2010); The Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio (2001), The Television History Book (2003), and NBC: America’s Network (2007).

"Michele Hilmes, a leading media historian in the USA, has made an important contribution to the comparative study of the development of radio and television in America and Britain. The British public service tradition and the American commercial model have had more in common than is generally supposed, as Hilmes demonstrates in her clear and readable account of their intertwined histories." --Professor Paddy Scannell, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan

• Introduction: Thinking Transnationally: The Anglo-American Axis I. The Nations Imagine Radio, 1922 to 1938 1. Chaos and Control 2. National Broadcasting in Britain 3. The "American System" II. Trans-Atlantic Convergence, 1938 to 1946 4. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute 5. The Politics and Poetics of Neutrality 6. In It Together: Wartime Radio III. Television, Trade, and Transculturation, 1946 to 1975 7. Disentangling and Differentiation, 1946 to 1955 8. New Directions and Disputes, 1955 to 1964 9. Transatlantic Partnerships, 1964 to 1980 10. Toward "Globalization"