Interview Paul LaMastra In his nearly three-hour interview, editor Paul LaMastra describes his early life and education and his stint living in Japan. He recalls working in the sound effects department at Paramount, which led to an apprenticeship on the comedy series Hogan's Heroes . He speaks of a very short stint...
Show 60 Minutes In 1967 Don Hewitt conceived of his new program, 60 Minutes , as a strategy for addressing issues given insufficient time for analysis in two minutes of the Evening News but not deemed significant enough to justify an hour-long documentary. 60 Minutes was born, then, in an environment of management...
Interview Chuck Barris In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Chuck Barris (1929-2017) chronicles his career from NBC page to novelist. Barris tells how he bluffed his way into the NBC management training program (thanks to some creative and fabricated recommendations from RCA board members), as well as how he started...
Interview Susan Lacy In her three-hour interview, Susan Lacy recalls her early experience working for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and discusses how she became deputy director of performance programs at Thirteen/WNET (the New York PBS affiliate) where she was a...
Interview Bill Tush In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Bill Tush discusses his early interest in broadcasting which led to him becoming a disc jockey in Pittsburgh. He recounts his early years at WTCG, Ted Turner's then-local station in Atlanta, and describes his various announcing and production duties. He...
