Thu. 11/03 - How the World Series Led To the Television Boom
Nov 03, 2022•18 min
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Episode description
A deep dive into two major events that led to the television boom, and a question of what that has meant for the artifice and theatricality of live events.
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Links:
- The first televised World Series spurred America's television boom, 75 years ago (The Conversation)
- Queen Elizabeth II’s First Move: Allowing TV Cameras at Her Coronation (Tedium)
- Scholarly Analysis of the Kennedy-Nixon Debates (Purdue)
- Nick Offerman joins weirdly star-studded cast of GameStop "stonks" movie (A/V Club)
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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