Introduction: underwriting the ether: newspapers and the origins of American broadcasting
1. Power, politics, and the promise of new media: newspaper ownership of radio in the 1920s
2. New empires: media concentration in the 1930s
3. Reshaping the public sphere: the New Deal and media concentration
4. Reform liberalism and the media: the Federal Communications Commission's newspaper-radio investigation
5. Media corporations and the critical public: the struggle over ownership diversity in postwar broadcasting
Conclusion: the persistence of print: newspapers and broadcasting in the age of television.