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TV’s form has changed, but its influence remains
Screen time Back in its heyday, broadcast television was criticized for appealing only to the lowest common denominator. In their drive to attract the highest share of the national television audience, the networks tried to air programming that would appeal to the largest number of viewers, often resulting in bland and repetitive television shows. Today it seems technology has exploded the old television model.
Obit Norman Lear
FILE - Comedian Jerry Lewis, left, meets with Ed Simmons, center, writer Norman Lear, background right, and producer Ernie Glucksman for "The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show", in New York on May 15, 1951. Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with such topical hits as "All in the Family" and “Maude” and propelled political and social turmoil into the once-insulated world of sitcoms, died Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, at age 101. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin, File)
Obit Norman Lear
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Obit Norman Lear
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An appreciation: How Norman Lear changed television - and with it American life - in the 1970s
NEW YORK (AP) — In many American living rooms, the 1960s didn't really begin until Jan. 12, 1971. That was the night the comedy “All in the Family” debuted, almost instantly changing television and American society with it. Creator Norman Lear, who died at age 101 on Tuesday, was the man behind that transformation. The series introduced the brash bigot Archie Bunker, his “dingbat” wife Edith, his feminist daughter Gloria and his liberal son-in-law Mike Stivic.
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Obit Norman Lear
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Obit Norman Lear
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Comedian Jerry Lewis, left, meets with Ed Simmons, center, writer Norman Lear, background right, and producer Ernie Glucksman for "The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show," on May 15, 1951, in New York.
Obit Norman Lear
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Obit Norman Lear
Norman Lear helped define prime time comedy in the 1970s, launched the careers of Rob Reiner and Valerie Bertinelli and made superstars of Carroll O’Connor, Bea Arthur and Redd Foxx.
Norman Lear dies at 101: Remembering the legendary TV producer in photos
Sept. 18, 1978 | Los Angeles Actors Jean Stapleton, seated, left, and Carroll O'Connor, seated, right, from "All in the Family" hold their Emmys for outstanding lead actress and actor in a comedy series, as they pose with co-star Rob Reiner, who won for supporting actor in a comedy series, standing left, producer Norman Lear, and executive producer Mort Lachman, standing right. Yarnold/AP
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With the future of AM unclear, a look back at the powerful role radio plays in baseball history
“Not everyone can remember who their first television broadcasters were – but everyone knows who the radio team was. Everyone.” NEW YORK – Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Suzyn Waldman fell madly in love with two things: baseball and Broadway shows. During the 1950s and '60s, the long arm of AM radio brought both into her home.
Baseball AM Radio
FILE - New York Yankees announcer Mel Allen, seated, reports the game between the Yankees and Baltimore Orioles from the television box behind home plate at Yankee Stadium on May 11, 1956, in New York. Many baseball fans, especially older ones, originally fell in love with America’s pastime by listening to ballgames on AM radio.
Baseball AM Radio
FILE - New York Yankees announcer Mel Allen, seated, reports the game between the Yankees and Baltimore Orioles from the television box behind home plate at Yankee Stadium on May 11, 1956, in New York. Many baseball fans, especially older ones, originally fell in love with America’s pastime by listening to ballgames on AM radio.
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Walter Philipp is a waiter and a self-taught artist who likes to paint clowns. Today his art is hanging amongst the salamis and bolognas in the delicatessen on 58th Street in New York where he is employed. Here waiter Philipp is carrying a tray to one of the tables in the delicatessen, July 1, 1947. Fourteen of his paintings in gouache are on display, nine of which are of clowns, the others are skyline scenes. Note the painting sharing equal billing with the smoked meats.
Restored Richard Wright novel hits bestseller lists
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling au…
She was almost killed when she was a sex worker. Now she wants it decriminalized in the US
When Laya Monarez first started, it was a way to get some extra cash for art supplies she needed in college. She never knew it would almost end up killing her. Laya is a former sex worker. She told Circa that she worked the streets a few times during college, and after, for financial reasons. After she graduated, Laya landed a job as a middle school art teacher, so she thought her days as a sex worker were in the past. But things didn't exactly work out as expected.
Dazzling basketball great Connie Hawkins dies at 75
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 1971, file photo, Connie Hawkins of the Phoenix Suns goes to the basket against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York. Basketball great Connie Hawkins has died at 75. The Hall of Famer's death was announced in a statement Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, by the Phoenix Suns, the team with which he spent his most productive NBA seasons. The Suns told The Associated Press they confirmed the death with his family.
Dazzling basketball great Connie Hawkins dies at 75
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 1971, file photo, Connie Hawkins of the Phoenix Suns goes to the basket against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York. Basketball great Connie Hawkins has died at 75. The Hall of Famer's death was announced in a statement Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, by the Phoenix Suns, the team with which he spent his most productive NBA seasons. The Suns told The Associated Press they confirmed the death with his family.
Dazzling basketball great Connie Hawkins dies at 75
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 1971, file photo, Connie Hawkins of the Phoenix Suns goes to the basket against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York. Basketball great Connie Hawkins has died at 75. The Hall of Famer's death was announced in a statement Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, by the Phoenix Suns, the team with which he spent his most productive NBA seasons. The Suns told The Associated Press they confirmed the death with his family.
Dazzling basketball great Connie Hawkins dies at 75
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 1971, file photo, Connie Hawkins of the Phoenix Suns goes to the basket against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York. Basketball great Connie Hawkins has died at 75. The Hall of Famer's death was announced in a statement Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, by the Phoenix Suns, the team with which he spent his most productive NBA seasons. The Suns told The Associated Press they confirmed the death with his family.
Dazzling basketball great Connie Hawkins dies at 75
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 1971, file photo, Connie Hawkins of the Phoenix Suns goes to the basket against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York. Basketball great Connie Hawkins has died at 75. The Hall of Famer's death was announced in a statement Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, by the Phoenix Suns, the team with which he spent his most productive NBA seasons. The Suns told The Associated Press they confirmed the death with his family.
Dazzling basketball great Connie Hawkins dies at 75
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 1971, file photo, Connie Hawkins of the Phoenix Suns goes to the basket against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York. Basketball great Connie Hawkins has died at 75. The Hall of Famer's death was announced in a statement Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, by the Phoenix Suns, the team with which he spent his most productive NBA seasons. The Suns told The Associated Press they confirmed the death with his family.
Dazzling basketball great Connie Hawkins dies at 75
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 1971, file photo, Connie Hawkins of the Phoenix Suns goes to the basket against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York. Basketball great Connie Hawkins has died at 75. The Hall of Famer's death was announced in a statement Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, by the Phoenix Suns, the team with which he spent his most productive NBA seasons. The Suns told The Associated Press they confirmed the death with his family.
Growing up together, TV and baby boomers were a perfect fit
FILE - In this Nov. 6, 1956, file photo, Barbara Mahar attaches a new TV accessory to her television set in New York City. An instant tuner, it converts television sets to remote control tuning in three minutes.TV was key to the world baby boomers were born into: a newly modernized world whose every problem (with the possible exception of the Cold War) seemed to promise an available solution.
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