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WCVB-TV Boston: How We Built the Greatest Television Station in America
Author(s): Robert Bennett (Author)
- Publisher: Dunham Books
- Publication Date: 21 Sept. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 328 pages
- ISBN-10: 1939447119
- ISBN-13: 9781939447111
Book Description
Many people don’t realize how important local television programming is to a geographic market. Bob Bennett has long been known as a broadcasting visionary and helped mold local television into what it is today. Having begun his career in early television, he went on to become General Manager of WTTG in Washington, D.C., WNEW-TV in New York and ultimately GM of WCVB-TV in Boston. Bob explains how the fight for the license to operate WCVB-TV was won, and how the station began its humble beginnings from a tractor warehouse in Needham, MA. He has worked throughout his career with television people such as Norman Lear, Fred Silverman, John Kluge, Fred Pierce, and many others. Today, WCVB-TV is a television success story that has been difficult to rival by any other TV station in the country. This book and the story of WCVB-TV, has broken the hearts and souls of some, dashed the hopes of others and ultimately made forty-five people millionaires by the time the station was sold to Metromedia
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About the Author
Bob Bennett is a pioneer and a legend in local television broadcasting. After beginning his career in early television, he went on to become General Manager of WTTG in Washington, D.C., WNEW-TV in New York and WCVB-TV Boston. He was President of Metromedia Broadcasting, Inc., the largest division of Metromedia and was the founding member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the ABC Television Network Affiliates Association.
Dennis Richard is a playwright and the author of over forty plays. His most recent plays include, Oswald, Bobby in Reykjavik, and Diagram for Murder. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
