On Television has long been regarded as one of the best critiques of television ever published, offering a lucid, jargon-free and impressively concise analysis of every aspect of the television industry from the images on our screens to the organisations that produce (and manipulate) those images. it is an invaluable introduction to the world of television broadcasting as an integral part of the mass media which impinges so greatly on our lives.

Colin Coulter is a sociology lecturer at the National University of Ireland Maynooth