Blog Post PR Legend Warren Cowan Has Died Warren Cowan has died at the age of 87. Interviewed in 2001 by the Archive of American Television, his nearly two-hour interview is available for viewing at Academy headquarters and will be available online soon. Interview description: Cowan recalled his entry into entertainment publicity working...
Blog Post "It's Saturday Night Live..." Don Pardo Interview Posted The third season of Saturday Night Live comes out on DVD today. The Archive interviewed long-time announcer Don Pardo, whose voice has been closely associated with the show since its debut in 1975. Click here to view Don Pardo's entire eight-part interview. Interview description: Pardo talked about...
Blog Post Mike Wallace is 90 Today! The Archive of American Television wishes Mike Wallace a happy birthday as the veteran newsman turns 90. Wallace spent his early years as an announcer and actor in radio and television. In the early 1950s he often appeared as an actor in the dramatic anthologies of the day including Suspense and...
Blog Post Public Television Legend James Day Has Died - Interviewed in 1998 Host of such public television series as Kaleidoscope in the late '50s and early '60s and Day at Night in the 1970s, James Day left his mark on public television as the president of National Educational Television (NET) starting in 1969, and president of Channel 13. James Day's four-and-a-half hour...
Blog Post Rod Serling's "A Town Has Turned To Dust" Presented at Ithaca College Before Rod Serling was immortalized as the creator, main writer, and host of The Twilight Zone , he contributed teleplays to several of the "live" and filmed anthologies of the 1950s that defined the "Golden Age of Television." Among his most significant teleplays were ones he wrote for Playhouse...
Blog Post Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame Honorees 2008 Are Announced The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame Committee has selected Beatrice Arthur, Dan Burke, Larry Gelbart, Merv Griffin, Thomas Murphy and Sherwood Schwartz to be inducted into the Television Academy’s Hall of Fame, it was announced yesterday by John Shaffner, Chairman/CEO of the...
Blog Post Emmy magazine features interviewee Robert Johnson Pick up the latest copy of emmy magazine to read an excerpt from our interview with network executive and BET founder Robert Johnson, where he discusses his early years in Washington, DC as vice president of Government Relations for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA),...
Blog Post Jack Larson, TV's Jimmy Olsen, Turns 75 Today! Jack Larson played everyone's favorite cub reporter from 1952-58 on the syndicated The Adventures of Superman , which starred George Reeves. He recently made a cameo appearance in the 2006 big screen Superman Returns . Last year, Larson attended the Archive's 10th Anniversary Party, which honored...
Blog Post Archive Interviewee Ruby Dee Gets Her Due Actress Ruby Dee won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for American Gangster and has received her very first Oscar nomination for the role as well. Dee's acting career spans over sixty years. The Archive interviewed both Dee and her...
Blog Post "Howdy Doody" Celebrates 60 Years On December 27, 1947 one of TV's first success stories debuted, Howdy Doody , which began as Puppet Playhouse , seen three times a week on NBC. Through 1948 and 1949, with its title change to Howdy Doody , and now airing five times a week, every child with a television set knew the answer to "Say...
