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I read this for my media history class. It gets one star for the following reason, I don't think it's really a history of television. It's a history of some technology related to television and broadcasting, and then it's mainly a recounting of American history with some television bits thrown in. I don't think Barnouw likes television or feels affectionate towards any of it, except maybe some of the live anthology dramas of the 1950s. He's only interested in news, PBS, and "things that are serious." "I Love Lucy" a landmark show by many accounts, is mentioned briefly and then quickly dispatched with. He mentions a lot of the highlights from the period, which are worth discussing (and seeing): Nixon's Checkers speech, the moon landing, the zippo ligther story, but very little from fictional television, especially sitcoms not tied to big "important themes." I encourage you to read a television history, if you want to do such a thing, it not that's fine too, but read one by people who like television, like Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, which presents the television shows and most of the same history you get from Barnaouw.