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This paper explores the rise of programs in television instruction in the USA during broadcasting’s postwar expansion period. Beginning in professional schools, television training entered the university first through extension school courses, then in full degree programs. This transition to institutions of higher learning entailed key shifts in demographics, pedagogical orientation, and legitimation strategies, while embroiling television in larger struggles over the shifting boundaries of the postwar humanities. Studying the education of early television workers, I argue, raises key questions about processes of worker professionalization vital for developing research on media industries and media labor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents a study which was conducted at the University of Alabama in 1959 to determine how the radio and television major at the institution is occupied during the first five years after graduation as compared to the second five years. It mentions that questionnaires were given to all students of the major who had graduated from January 1, 1949 to December 31, 1958. It presents a table which depicts the number and percentage of respondents working industries.