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| Here are resources to supplement your research about news, programming and public service on television and radio stations in the United States and Canada. Many of the individual station online sites include audio, video and graphics. These pages show how hometown broadcasting developed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Buffalo
Broadcast Pioneers Revisit radio and television in western New York. |
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| Chicago
Television: 10 Years Ago Today Access the Museum of Broadcast Communications. The museum also offers VHS copies of newscasts for $19.95 (plus $5 for shipping and handling). Chicago Radio-TV History Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia stlradio.com |
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Museum of Television and Radio Archives in New York. |
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Broadcasting the Local News The Early Years of Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV Former Pittsburgh
broadcaster Lynn Boyd Hinds has written a colorful history of KDKA-TV, and how this
Westinghouse television station grew. The people who were there at the start were
interviewed for this Penn State University Press book. |
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| Dean of Los Angeles TV reporters tells his story | Stan Chambers: News at 10 KTLA-TV's Stan Chambers has witnessed most of the major events in Los Angeles over the last 50 years. Stan's book Stan Chambers; News at 10 is on sale now. He began his career with KTLA in December of 1947, when there were said to be only about 300 TV sets in the Los Angeles area. He's reported on earthquakes, the Baldwin Hills Dam disaster, the Watts riots, forest fires, the first televised atomic bomb blast in Yucca Flat, Nevada in 1952, the Robert Kennedy assassination and many more before and since. You can e-mail Stan Chambers for information about obtaining his book. |
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Voice Over: The Making of Black
Radio Howard University professor (and Washington D.C. broadcaster) William Barlow explores the the history of radio stations that have served the African American community. This is a wide-ranging story. These stations, their executives and staffers have been leaders in many ways, often helping to build stronger communities by providing information, forums and motivation in many causes. This is also the story of changes in popular culture and entertainment Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio is available from amazon.com or the Temple University Press at 1-800-447-1656. |
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Vanderbilt TV Archives Radio Program Archive |
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Eyewitness to D-Day, but
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Reporting the Murder of
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Cronkite: From
the wire service to radio to TV news' top reporter In A Reporter's Life, Walter Cronkite recalls career that stretched across six decades. He was there for so much. The birth of radio news. World War II. The Cold War. Truman. Eisenhower. The birth of television news. Kennedy. Nixon. Johnson. Man on the moon. Glenn. King. Civil Rights Revolution. See also: Cronkite Interview (Transcript of talk with C-SPAN's Brian Lamb). |
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Leslie Stahl's book covers White House
from Nixon to Bush Reporting Live tells what it was like to be a woman in the CBS News Washington bureau in the days when there were few women correspondents on air at the networks. It was the Days of Cronkite, Mudd, the Kalbs, Rather and a long list of veteran heavy-hitters. Reporting Live is listed at $26.00, and amazon.com has it priced at $15.60. |
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| CHAPTER 133 of
The Big Town Chronicles Matter of Trust: Scandals of The Public Air, 1959 Charles Van Doren was one of the most popular contestants and one of the biggest winners in the TV quiz shows to which viewers were briefly devoted in the late 1950s. Alan Freed was the nation's best-known radio disc jockey, Mr. Rock 'n' Roll. Both of them lied to millions of people who believed in them. Both of them paid for that. New York Daily News staff writer David Hinckley recalls their stories. |
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The identifying symbol of 60 Minutes wasn't part of
the very first broadcasts. It seems hard to believe. The watch --- and the audio of the watch --- are such strong elements. Here's the watch's history from the CBS publicity people and other sources. |
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| TV drew audience and advertisers from the mainstream media (magazines) forty years ago | Eroding audience loyalties and advertisers switching to
another medium (television) killed the major American general audience magazines in the
1950s. Theodore White was working at Collier's when the end came at Christmas, 1956. Here's an excerpt from his autobiography. |
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Critic: Archie Bunker Television's Top Character A "crude, prejudiced,
uneducated and opinionated loading dock worker" is the top character of all time on
American television. That's the opinion of Albany Times Union television
critic Mark McGuire. McGuire on Bunker:
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Here's an after-hours tour that reveals how Emmy-winning dramatist Rod Serling produced his unique brand of storytelling. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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