The remote control in the new age of television / edited by James R. Walker
and Robert V. Bellamy.
p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-275-94396-8 (alk. paper)

1. Television viewers-- United States--Psychology. 2. Television--
Channel selectors--Social aspects. 3. Television--Channel
selectors--Psychological aspects. I. Walker, James Robert.

II. Bellamy, Robert V.
PN1992.55.R46 1993
302.23′45′0973-dc20 93-6774

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Copyright © 1993 by James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy Jr.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-6774
ISBN: 0-275-94396-8

First published in 1993

Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

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Copyright Acknowledgment

An earlier version of chapter 5 appeared in the Journal of Popular Film and
Television 18,
no. 2 ( 1990): 65-71. Portions of that article are reprinted with permission of
the Helen
Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th
Street,
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-1802. Copyright 1990.

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