Live Television: Time, Space and the Broadcast Event

In a fragmenting, multichannel and multiplatform global broadcasting environment, live television continues to attract huge audiences, yet little of a comprehensive nature has been written about the live television event.

This book situates the live television event in the context of an expanding and increasingly complex global communicative framework. Building her argument with a series of case studies of events as diverse as the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, the attack on the W…