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Former FCC chair Newton Minow on serving on CBS' board (starting in 1983) 04:27
Interview: Newton N. Minow | Person: Frank Stanton
Former FCC chair Newton Minow on serving on CBS' board (starting in 1983) 04:27
Interview: Newton N. Minow | Person: William S. Paley
Newton Minow on whether he still sees television as a "vast wasteland" in 1999 00:55
Interview: Newton N. Minow
Newton Minow on his opinion of the television industry and its failure to remain in the public interest 02:49
Interview: Newton N. Minow
Former FCC chair Newton Minow on serving on CBS' board (starting in 1983) 04:27
Interview: Newton N. Minow | Topic: Television Industry
Newton Minow on whether he still sees television as 1961's "vast wasteland" in 1999 00:55
Interview: Newton N. Minow | Topic: Criticism of TV
Newton Minow on his opinion of the television industry and its failure to remain in the public interest 02:49
Interview: Newton N. Minow | Topic: Television Industry
On some individuals he's known including Adlai Stevenson, Studs Terkel, his law partner Howard Trienens; on an incident at WTTW regarding producing Birds of the Iron Feather; Walter Cronkite, Walter Annenberg; on his publications; on his wife 59:29
Interview: Newton N. Minow
Newton Minow on an argument he had at public station WTTW in Chicago during the 1970 development of the first Black-produced television drama Birds of the Iron Feather, where Jesse Jackson and other Civil Rights leaders demanded an all-Black crew 02:22
Interview: Newton N. Minow | Show: Bird of the Iron Feather
Newton Minow on an argument he had at public station WTTW in Chicago during the 1970 development of the first Black-produced television drama B irds of the Iron Feather, where Jesse Jackson and other Civil Rights leaders demanded an all-Black crew 02:22
Interview: Newton N. Minow | Topic: Underrepresented Voices
On the death of business partner and best friend Bill Lee; On producing Not Necessarily the News and HBO's Comic Relief 16:03
Interview: John Moffitt
John Moffitt on casting Larry David and Michael Richards on Fridays 03:08
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Larry David
John Moffitt on casting Larry David and Michael Richards on Fridays 03:08
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Michael Richards
John Moffitt on Andy Kaufman's notorious surprise fight sketch on Fridays 06:08
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Andy Kaufman
John Moffitt on how Ted Koppel 5 days a week got picked up and pushed back Fridays 00:59
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Ted Koppel
John Moffitt on the death of Bill Lee and how Bill's wife became the new partner in Moffitt/Lee Productions 03:57
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Bill Lee
John Moffitt on Michael Fuchs giving him the chance to do an HBO pilot for what became HBO's first series, Not Necessarily the News 04:36
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Michael Fuchs
John Moffitt on hiring a writer out of Harvard named Conan O'Brien for HBO's first series, Not Necessarily the News 00:18
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Conan O'Brien
John Moffitt on producing HBO's Comic Relief Specials; on Zmuda going to Chris Albrecht to propose Comic Relief Specials 03:09
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Chris Albrecht
John Moffitt on Andy Kauffman wanting to fake his own death 01:56
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Andy Kaufman
John Moffitt on Andy Kauffman wanting to fake his own death; on Zmuda going to Chris Albrecht to propose Comic Relief Specials 05:05
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Bob Zmuda
John Moffitt on producing HBO's Comic Relief Specials 03:09
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Whoopi Goldberg
John Moffitt on producing HBO's Comic Relief Specials 03:09
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Robin Williams
John Moffitt on producing HBO's Comic Relief Specials 03:09
Interview: John Moffitt | Person: Billy Crystal
John Moffitt on casting Larry David and Michael Richards on Fridays 03:08
Interview: John Moffitt | Show: Fridays
John Moffitt on the first episodes of Fridays and on Andy Kaufman's notorious surprise fight sketch 07:00
Interview: John Moffitt | Show: Fridays