Network Nations A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting

"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