"The Real Masters of Television"
Magazine article
By: Robert Eck
Date: March 1967
Source: Eck, Robert. "The Real Masters of Television." Harper's, March 1967, 45–52.
About the Author: Robert Eck, a writer of media advertising copy for many years, also served as a radar operator in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
Introduction
Although plenty of terrible programming flashed across the nation's airwaves during the 1950s, the decade is rightly saluted as the so-called "Golden Age" of television. The period featured much live programming, plus outstanding educational and cultural shows of the type that in the early 2000s are conspicuously absent from network channels, having been banished either to public television or to various cable stations. Indeed, during the 1950s there aired probably just enough high quality shows to foster the illusion that television—a medium with an admittedly...
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