Blog Post TV Academy Foundation Auction - IT'S ON! Where in the World is Emmy Magazine? | Emmys.com It's on! The TV Academy Foundation's auction benefiting the education and preservation programs of the Foundation has begun. Bid on celebrity-signed items and unique TV experiences -- including our personal favorite, attending a table reading of "...
Blog Post Legendary News Producer Don Hewitt Has Died Don Hewitt, who created and executive produced 60 Minutes , and whose early credits include producing and directing the "Great Debates" in 1960 between Nixon and Kennedy, has died at the age of 86.
Blog Post Legendary Make-up Artist Howard Smit Has Died at age 98-- Archive interview online Howard Smit helped found IATSE Local 706 and had a fifty year career in the make-up field, starting in television in the mid-1930s at experimental station W6XAO. He was profiled earlier this year by Byrd Holland in the Make-Up & Hair Stylists Guild's journal The Artisan . Holland also conducted...
Blog Post Legendary Newsman Walter Cronkite Dies at 92-- Archive Interview Excerpts Online Walter Cronkite received the moniker, “the most trusted man in America” when he served as the anchorman and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981, due to his honesty, integrity, and, occasionally, his emotional delivery of the day’s news. Below, from his Archive interview,...
Blog Post Don Mischer at the 2009 Emmy Nominations Executive Producer of this year's Primetime Emmy Awards & Archive Interviewee, Don Mischer, was interviewed this morning at the nomination ceremony (at 6am!). He was happy to discuss the upcoming broadcast and the talents of this year's hosts, Neil Patrick Harris:
Blog Post Quincy Jones - on working with Michael Jackson Composer and Music Producer Quincy Jones was interviewed for the Archive in 2002. In this excerpt from his 2 hour interview, he remembers when MTV first formed and how influential Michael Jackson's videos were to the network, and the impact of Thriller on the medium of music videos.
Blog Post "Rhoda: Season One" Makes Its DVD Debut (at last!) Rhoda , which lasted from 1974-78, featured the further adventures of Mary Richards' friend and neighbor from The Mary Tyler Moore Show , as she relocated from Minneapolis back to her native New York City. The first season of Rhoda was ranked #6 of all shows that television season in the Nielsen...
Blog Post Bob Barker is Coming Back Down Bob Barker will be making a special appearance on The Price Is Right tomorrow to promote his new book Priceless Memories , currently in bookstores. The Associated Press reported that Barker, "dressed in a black suit with a hot pink shirt and matching tie... appear[s] alongside successor Drew Carey...
Blog Post Archive Staff Spotted! Halloween greetings from TV 60s, 70s, and 80s... hope your Halloween is fun too!
Blog Post US Postal Service to Release Early TV Show Commemorative Stamps in 2009 From today's press release regarding planned stamps for 2009 from the US Postal Service: Early TV Memories Block your calendar for Aug. 11 to attend the dedication of the Early TV Memories stamps, scheduled to take place in Los Angeles. For more than half a century, Americans have turned to...
