Here’s a brief excerpt from Green’s chapter on Australia – perhaps an interesting glimpse of how an outsider saw Australian television almost half a century ago. He begins with the recent arrival of Intelsat satellite transmissions and then continues:
This sounds interesting:
This one isn’t about Australian TV history, but the BBC certainly left an enduring imprint on Australian television, particularly the ABC:
The above book will be distributed in Australia by Allen and Unwin, but will not available until March 2022.
There is also a New Zealand version of this book (based on the Australian format) titled New Zealand Television: The First 25 Years (1985). It’s available in its entirety on the Internet Archive:
Now available to pre-order. The price is a bit out of my range but if they end up offering e-book versions it may be doable.
The email I got from Michael today suggests that there will be an ebook version
Also, the publisher has a history of deep discounts (100-dollar-plus books sold for around 25 dollars) during regular sale periods.
Looks like the book will finally be out next week.
Are any Australian retailers (either online of brick-and-mortar places) selling the book at a lower price than the one listed on international sites such as the Book Depository?
Chapter abstracts of the book are now available (or entire e-chapters if you purchase them):
Academic books are massively expensive
Its a significant tome too at nearly 500 pages - not sure there are other written histories of australian media that come close
hard cover book advertised on sale for €23.36 (down from €119.99)
and purchased - thats a decent discount
Same here–and free worldwide shipping is a nice bonus.
mine arrived today. A very polished product, almost 500 pages. Now just need the time to read it!!
Be interested to know the logistics. It appears to be a ‘print on demand’ model, so even though it was ordered and billed through an EU company the delivery came from printers in Dandenong. Which probably explains the cheap/free postage as it’s just local post.
Was going to post something very similar - mine arrived yesterday.
Had a quick flick through, it is incredibly well researched and referenced (even found us in as a reference!)
I have access to the online version for free through my Uni and the amount of information in it, especially the names of programs, is just amazing. I’ve been compiling a list of programs produced at each tv studio and this is very useful indeed.
