Auletta chronicles the revolution in American business and popular culture that was the story of network television in the 1980s: the big three networks lost a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits, while takeovers and coups turned NBC and ABC into assets of two megacorporations, and CBS into the fiefdom of one man, Larry Tisch. Auletta was granted unprecedented access to the networks, and takes the reader behind the scenes to the news bureaus, programming and budgeting meetings, and Hollywood production facilities to reveal a compelling inside view of the world of commercial television.
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Ken Auletta inaugurated the Annals of Communications column and profiles for The New Yorker in 1992. This is his thirteenth book. Five of his previous books were national bestsellers, including Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way, Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman, and Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. He lives in Manhattan with his wife. View titles by Ken Auletta
"Three Blind Mice may be the most thorough probe ever into how the TV industry works." -- Newsweek



"This is one of the best books on television. Maybe the best."

-- Dallas Morning News

"The book's fascination and fun lie in the detail -- Mr. Auletta's extraordinary access to the principal players, his eye for color, ear for anecdote and reporter's instinct for conflict." -- Wall Street Journal

"It's a tour de force of reporting" -- Business Week

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Auletta chronicles the revolution in American business and popular culture that was the story of network television in the 1980s: the big three networks lost a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits, while takeovers and coups turned NBC and ABC into assets of two megacorporations, and CBS into the fiefdom of one man, Larry Tisch. Auletta was granted unprecedented access to the networks, and takes the reader behind the scenes to the news bureaus, programming and budgeting meetings, and Hollywood production facilities to reveal a compelling inside view of the world of commercial television.

Author

© Courtesy of the author
Ken Auletta inaugurated the Annals of Communications column and profiles for The New Yorker in 1992. This is his thirteenth book. Five of his previous books were national bestsellers, including Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way, Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman, and Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. He lives in Manhattan with his wife. View titles by Ken Auletta

Praise

"Three Blind Mice may be the most thorough probe ever into how the TV industry works." -- Newsweek



"This is one of the best books on television. Maybe the best."

-- Dallas Morning News

"The book's fascination and fun lie in the detail -- Mr. Auletta's extraordinary access to the principal players, his eye for color, ear for anecdote and reporter's instinct for conflict." -- Wall Street Journal

"It's a tour de force of reporting" -- Business Week

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