Encyclopedia of TV (1st Ed.)



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Published in 1997 and edited by Dr. Horace Newcomb, the director of the George Foster Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia, this three-volume work features 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and has been cited as the "the most definitive book ever written on world wide television."

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