Topic Media Consolidation Interviewees discuss networks merging, buying each other, and being bought by corporations.
Topic Public Television PUBLIC TELEVISION U.S. public television is a peculiar hybrid of broadcasting systems. Neither completely a public service system in the European tradition, nor fully supported by commercial interests as in the dominant pattern in the United States, it has elements of both. At its base this system...
Profession Producers Although the medium's technical complexity demands that any television program is a collective product involving many talents and decision makers, in American television it is the producer who frequently serves as the decisive figure in shaping a program. Producers assume direct responsibility for...
Profession Executives This category consists of executives in all facets of broadcasting including: advertising, cable, interactive media, networks (including founders), sports, and television station management.
Show Outer Limits, The (1963-65) The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. Similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone with more science fiction than fantasy stories, The Outer Limits is an anthology of discrete story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end. The series...
Show Bewitched Bewitched , a fantasy situation comedy featuring the suburban life of a witch housewife married to a mortal, aired on ABC from 1964 to 1972. In its first season, it was the highest rated of all the new series and for its first five seasons, the program found itself consistently in Neilsens' Top...
Show Addams Family, The “They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky. They’re altogether ooky. The Addams Family.” Those are the words from the theme song to the 1960s television series called The Addams Family . Penned by television and movie composer Vic Mizzy , the song not only describes the family...