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Television The First Fifty Years

Rh Value Publishing

Records, in photographs and text, television's fifty-year history, examining the people and programs which have transformed popular entertainment into a multi-billion-dollar industry which both reflects and shapes contemporary life

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Stephen Stark, who wrote a book about television and is now a poet, explained that in the early days of television, there wasn't much to watch and they often borrowed popular radio shows and moved them to TV.

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I wrote a book about television and I'm a poet. I write poetry now. So yeah, that's what I do.

— Episode: 581- It's Howdy Doody Time!

Episode: 581- It's Howdy Doody Time!

Stephen Stark, who wrote a book about television and is now a poet, explained that in the early days of television, there wasn't much to watch and they often borrowed popular radio shows and moved them to TV.

"

I wrote a book about television and I'm a poet. I write poetry now. So yeah, that's what I do.

Did you ever write any poems about howdy-doody? No, never wrote a poem about howdy-doody nor will I ever?

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