This is also the story of inventors like Philo Farnsworth, who invented electronic television as a high school student in rural Utah (he also invented the first fax machine), and the first network battles, between companies such as RCA, NBC and DuMont. Chorus girls worked side by side with performing rats Eddie Albert, Dinah Shore, Hugh Downs and Betty Furness were still plucky unknowns and one crossed wire could ruin an entire night's programming, with losses totaling as much as sixty-five dollars! This is the first book to cover comprehensively the earliest days of television, the period between 19, before there were regularly scheduled programs, or even written scripts, when television was in its infancy, and TV "bloopers" were the order of the day rather than the exception. Please Stand By looks back at the rough pioneer beginnings of TV, when the glow from the small screen brought magic into every home that had a set. Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239) and indexĮven before there was "Howdy Doody" or "The Honeymooners," there was television, the medium that would define and change forever the twentieth century.
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