The “First Great Purge” of American Television Programming: Understanding How and Why Popular Television Changed So Dramatically from the 1950s to the 1960s

Though “purge” may seem a rather dramatic choice of terms to refer to a drastic shift in the overall nature of network television programming in the United States, it has long been used by media scholars, notably in reference to “The Great Rural Purge of 1971”, when CBS suddenly decided to cancel al...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dennis Tredy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures 2022-11-01
Series:TV Series
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/tvseries/6089