Republic on the Wire Cable Television, Pluralism, and the Politics of New Technologies, 1948-1984

"Republic on the Wire is an incisive, original work that reveals the enduring stakes for democracy in the history of our media policy." - Jennifer Holt (author of Empires of Entertainment) "Grounded in fresh empirical and archival work, Republic on the Wire shows us the continuities between an understudied niche of television history and new media development and policy." - Vicki Mayer (author of Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy) "[A] deeply researched and compellingly argued new book [and a] useful contribution to media history research as well as debates about media policy." (Media Industries)