Television in American Society Biographies
Table of Contents
Reader's Guide
Timeline of Events
Words to Know
Arledge, Roone
Ball, Lucille
Berle, Milton
Burnett, Mark ("Survivor")
Cooney, Joan Ganz ("Sesame Street")
Cosby, Bill
Cosell, Howard
Cronkite, Walter
Farnsworth, Philo Taylor (inventor of many key components of TV sets)
Gelbart, Larry ("MASH")
Griffin, Merv ("Jeopardy," "Wheel of Fortune")
Hewitt, Don ("60 Minutes")
Johnson, Robert L. (founder of BET)
Lear, Norman ("All in the Family")
Levin, Gerald (HBO and Time Warner)
Malone, John C. (TCI Cable)
Marshall, Garry ("Happy Days," "Murphy Brown")
McGrath, Judy (chairman of MTV)
Michaels, Lorne ("SNL")
Moore, Mary Tyler
Nixon, Agnes (best-known daytime drama writer/producer)
Paley, William S. (founder of CBS network)
Sarnoff, David ("The General" who presided over growth of RCA and NBC)
Schwartz, Sherwood ("The Brady Bunch")
Silverman, Fred (visionary ABC programmer)
Spelling, Aaron ("Love Boat," "Fantasy Island," "Beverly Hills 90210")
Tartikoff, Brandon (longtime programming chief of NBC)
Turner, Ted
Walters, Barbara
Winfrey, Oprah
Zworykin, Vladymir (Russian-born engineer who invented many key components of TV
sets)
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