Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/27/2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
The Paley Museum
25 West 52 Street,
New York
NY
Categories
Meet the authors Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik of Watching TV: American Television Season by Season
Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 3:00 pm
The Paley Museum, 25 West 52 Street, New York City
Learn the secrets of writing and researching television history. Syracuse University Press has just published an updated edition of one of the best books on media history: Watching TV: American Television Season by Season. Authors Walter J. Podrazik, a TV curator at the Chicago Museum of Broadcast Communications, and Harry Castleman, a lawyer and coauthor of eight books with Wally, will explore how they created Watching TV in the eighties and have now brought this detailed, entertaining history of TV up to 2024, surveying how the medium has evolved every year. In addition, Wally and Harry along with Paley TV Curator Ron Simon have chosen rare clips from the Paley Archive to screen, including one of the of the strangest series ever, The Continental, and the Beatles’s first appearance in primetime before the Sullivan show.
Free for Paley Members, included in General Admission.