Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Amanda D. Lotz -- I want my talk TV: network talk shows in a digital universe / Jeffrey P. Jones -- Like sands through the hourglass: the changing fortunes of the daytime television soap opera / Elana Levine -- The benefits of banality: domestic syndication in the post-network era / Derek Kompare -- Home is where the brand is: children's television in a post-network era / Sarah Banet-Weiser -- National nightly news in the on-demand era / Amanda D. Lotz -- Everything new is old again: sport television, innovation, and tradition for a multi-platform era / Victoria E. Johnson -- A form in peril?: the evolution of the made-for-television movie / Erin Copple Smith -- The dynamics of local news / Jonathan Nichols-Pethick -- Reinventing PBS: public television in the post-network, post-welfare era / Laurie Ouellette.