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Terry Anzur
Books
Inventing TV News. Live and Local in Los Angeles.
by Terry Anzur
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 49,250.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 4, 2022
by
Whine and Cheese Press.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History » North America » USA, Nonfiction » Social Science » Media studies, Nonfiction » Engineering, trades, & technology » Inventions, Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Performing arts » Television / direction & production, Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Performing arts » Television / history & criticism
Travel back in time to Southern California, where live TV coverage of breaking news was born. Everyone's Child, 1949: Two rival stations in Los Angeles televise the attempted rescue of a toddler from an abandoned well pipe. For the first time, TV provides live images of breaking news as it happens. Covering Crime, 1951: An eight-year-old girl is abducted from a movie theater by a known sex...