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Daily Archives : Apr 26, 2011

Engineer Behind the Teleprompter Dead at 91

Hubert J. "Hub" Schlafly Jr., a television engineer who helped invent the teleprompter, has died at 91, reports The Washington Post. The idea for the teleprompter came in the 1940s when a Broadway actor, Fred Barton, came up with the…

Ratings Record for BBC America

BBC America set a ratings record with the season premiere of a British import Saturday, TVGuide.com reported. The first part of a two-part "Doctor Who" episode drew 1.27 million viewers to the cable channel, which made the show the network’s…

Guest Blog–Vast Wasteland My Ass, Part Two. Strange Bedfellows: ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ ‘Playhouse 90’ and ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’

[Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog by Norman Horowitz, and a follow-up to a blog entry he wrote that can be found if you click here. Norman started in the TV business in 1956, when he was 24. He has been president of…