Broadcasting, Radio and Television

Competing for Frequency

Grand Ole Opry, Tennessee

Depression-Era Radio

Edgar Bergen

RCA Corporate Logo, Around 1950

Jack Benny

George Burns

Radio Dramas

Roosevelt at Work

Truman on the Bombing of Hiroshima

Television Sets from 1950s

Ed Wynn

Guy Lombardo

Early Television

Milton Berle

Lucille Ball

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca

Color-Television Debut

“Twenty-One” Quiz Show

1950’s Family Shows

Norman Lear’s “All in the Family”

Johnny Carson

Garrison Keillor

David Letterman

Edward R. Murrow

David Brinkley

Television Reporter

Television Newscast

Nixon-Kennedy Debate

Nielsen Rating Device

Modern Radio

Carl Sagan on the Set of Cosmos

The Three Tenors

Democratic Debate on CNN

Television Ratings System in the United States