Blog Post Archive Interviewee Jerry Lewis Discusses the MDA Telethon The 45th annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association will be broadcast live from the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in Las Vegas, beginning at 9 p.m. ET Sunday, September 5th. In a press release, MDA President & CEO Gerald C. Weinberg noted: “Major...
Blog Post Legendary KTLA Newsman Stan Chambers Retires After 63 Years Stan Chambers started in television at the dawn of the medium. He's been a fixture of KTLA's news team and its historic coverage of breaking news since he first reported on the tragedy of Kathy Fiscus in 1947— a three-year-old girl who fell down piping of an abandoned water well. Stan Chambers'...
Blog Post "Howdy Doody" Writer Eddie Kean Has Died Eddie Kean , the sole writer for the first seven years of the classic children's show Howdy Doody , has died at age 85. Kean also wrote the songs for the show. Out of Howdy Doody comes one of Kean's most lasting contributions to pop culture — the creation of the word "cowabunga" (also spelled...
Blog Post Humphrey Bogart on '50s TV— "Jack Benny," "Person to Person," and "Producers' Showcase" Humphrey Bogart was one of the screen's biggest stars in the 1950s, when TV was considered a rival medium. Bogart made relatively few appearances on TV before his death in January 1957. According to sources (such as David M. Inman's Performers' Television Credits ), Bogart made a few appearances on...
Blog Post EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG Wins Top Honors at 2010 Interactive Media Awards The TV Academy Foundation's Archive of American Television website EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG has won an Outstanding Achievement in Website Development Award from the Interactive Media Council's 2010 Interactive Media Awards! The honor, granted by the Interactive Media Awards, recognizes that the site met...
Blog Post Producer David Wolper ("Roots") has Died -- Co-Founder of the Archive of American Television Legendary producer David Wolper , whose many documentaries and notable TV projects include Roots and The Thorn Birds — has died at the age of 82. Wolper was one of the co-founders of the Archive of American Television and was interviewed about his career on May 12, 1998. His full Archive interview...
Blog Post John Langley's Interview Is Now Online-- Created "Cops" " Cops is an existential variety show, with a criminal accent, and real décor." John Langley was interviewed in North Hollywood, CA on May 22, 2009; Karen Herman conducted the two-hour interview. Interview Description: John Langley says of his background: “I’m a kid of the 60’s. I’m sort of anti-...
Blog Post Korean War 60th Anniversary-- First US War on TV The Vietnam War is known as the "first televised war" due to the graphic nature of the images seen by American viewers. Chronologically, however, the Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950, was the first war of the TV era, when the medium was still in its infancy. Just as the television networks...
Blog Post "Chicago Television"-- New Book from the Museum of Broadcast Communications The Chicago-based Museum of Broadcast Communications recently released Chicago Television , a survey of the city's first fifty years of TV broadcasting. Chicago TV stations WBKB (now WBBM-TV), WENR (now WLS-TV), WGN, and WNBQ (now WMAQ-TV) began commercial broadcasting in the 1940s, launching...
Blog Post Soap Star Helen Wagner, Matriarch of "As the World Turns," Dies at Age 91- Archive Interview Online Helen Wagner , listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long-running performance as Nancy Hughes on As the World Turns since the show debuted in 1956, has died. She sadly misses the the series' final episode by just a few months-- its planned for a September 17th airdate. Her TV series...
