Discusses the history of the television industry as well as details of employment, such as wages and trends; key types of jobs; tips for succeeding as a professional; training programs; and other career resources.
What do people do in Hollywood? Readers pick from eight different scenarios and experience "next best thing to being there yourself" opportunities for interactive career exploration. Sidebars promote additional learning activities and independent research.
Concerned that the family is spending too much time in front of the television and neglecting other activities, Mama Bear decides that there will be no television watching for one week.
As the children of two world-famous explorers, eleven-year-old twins Celia and Oliver prefer television-watching to adventure-seeking until their father takes them to Tibet to help search for their long-lost mother.
Presents the story of Philo Farnsworth who invented the television. Describes how he got the idea at age fourteen and kept working until he created a working television when he was twenty-one.
Chronicles twelve key moments in the history of television, from the quiz show scandals of the 1950s to Ted Turner's invention of twenty-four hour news.
