Research Catalog
Los Angeles television
- Title
- Los Angeles television / Joel Tator with the Museum of Broadcast Communications ; foreword by Tom Brokaw.
- Author
- Tator, Joel
- Publication
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2014]
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN1992.783.L67 T38 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 167 pages : illustrations; 23 x 25 cm
- Summary
- Los Angeles television history began in the small room of an auto dealership in 1931. Since then, much of the nation's television history has been made here: the first television helicopter, the first big story that television broke before newspapers, the first live coverage of an atomic bomb, and the careers of numerous icons like Betty White, Steve Allen, Liberace, Lawrence Welk, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Many Los Angeles television personalities went on to network fame, including Tom Snyder, Tom Brokaw, Bryant Gumbel, Connie Chung, Maury Povich, Bob Barker, Bill Leyden, Ann Curry, Pat Sajak, and Regis Philbin. Readers will discover, in many untold stories, the origins of that curious building on top the Hollywood sign, Albert Einstein's must-see local program, Marilyn Monroe's video debut, a popular television star's last tragic performance, and the actual identities of legends Korla Pandit and Iron Eyes Cody. Also in these pages is the reveal of the Mystery Tower Sitter, the all-night amateur show, the big Las Vegas premiere telecast that was blown off the air, and the treasured performer who worked at one station for 65 years.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- History.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. The experimental days -- 2. That's entertainment -- 3. Not for kids only -- 4. The News Wars.
- ISBN
- 9781467132701
- 1467132705
- LCCN
- 2014942580
- OCLC
- ocn889525020
- 889525020
- SCSB-9643737
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library