The SAGE Handbook of Television Studies is an essential reference work for all advanced undergraduates, graduate students and academics across broadcasting, mass communication and media studies.

PART 1: OWNERSHIP AND REGULATIONHow to Study Ownership and Regulation - Des FreedmanRegulation and Ownership in the United States - Allison PerlmanTelevision in Latin America: From Commercialism to Reform? - Martin Becerra, Guillermo Mastrini and Silvio WaisbordOwnership and Regulation of Television in Anglophone Africa - Ruth Teer-TomaselliOwnership and Regulation in Europe - Stylianos Papathanassopoulos International Regulation and Organizations - Paschal Preston and Roderick FlynnTelevision in India: Ideas, Institutions and Practices - Arvind Rajagopal Mexican Research on TV: A Tradition Framed By a Powerful Quasi-Monopolistic TV System - Guillermo OrozcoPART 2: MAKERS AND MAKINGHow to Study Makers and Making - Miranda J. BanksThe Division of Labour in Television - Michael Curtin and Kevin SansonFrom Network to Post-Network Age of US Television News - Oliver Boyd-BarrettHollywood Story: Diversity, Writing and the End of Television As We Know It - Darnell HuntTelevision Cinematography - Deborah TudorOptions and Exclusivity: Economic Pressures on TV Writers' Compensation and the Effects on Writers' Room Culture - Felicia D. HendersonA Greener Screening Future: Manufacturing and Recycling as the Subjects of Television Studies - Vicki Mayer and Clare CannonPART 3: CULTURAL FORMSTelevision Program Formats: Their Making and Meaning - Albert MoranCultural Forms of Television: Sport - David RoweLatin American Telenovelas: Affect, Citizenship and Interculturality - André Dorcé Television News and Current Affairs - Kathleen M. Ryan, Lisa McLaughlin and David SholleMusic on Television - Matthew Delmont Reality Television - Mark Andrejevic Television Drama - Jason JacobsSperm Receptacles, Money-Hungry Monsters and Fame Whores: Reality Celebrity Motherhood and the Transmediated Grotesque - Brenda R. Weber and Jennifer Lynn JonesPART 4: AUDIENCES, RECEPTION, CONSUMPTIONFrom The Networks to New Media: Making Sense of Television Audiences - Laura Grindstaff Effects and Cultivation - Michael Morgan, Jim Shanahan and Nancy SignorielliActive Audiences and Uses and Gratifications - Helen WoodRaced Audiences and the Logic of Representation - L.S. KimClassed Audiences in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism - Mike Wayne