TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 492.4: Three-time Emmy nominee Phil Savenick talks to Ed about how he came to develop TheHistoryofTV.com, a virtual museum devoted to the creation of television, which Phil curates from his home in Los Angeles. The mission statement of TheHistoryofTV.com is to celebrate the life and career of Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television. This interview was recorded via remote in January 2020, before the national lockdown. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 492.5: Ed welcomes back actress, comedienne and producer Kat Kramer. Kat is one of the producers, as well as one of the cast members, of Turnover, an uplifting independent film that celebrates the resilience that resides in all of us, particularly after life suddenly throws us a curve. Co-written and directed by Linda Palmer, and also featuring Paul Guilfoyle, Donna Mills, Beverly Todd, and many other familiar faces, Turnover is currently available for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 492.6: Actress and producer Kat Kramer (Turnover) talks to Ed about some of her upcoming projects, including the independent drama Mother’s Day Memories. Plus: Since we’ll all at home for the foreseeable future, Kat recommends some films of her father, Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning producer/director Stanley Kramer, to watch or revisit during this time. Turnover is currently available for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 492.7: Via remote from TheHistoryofTV.com: Phil Savenick gives Ed a guided tour of his virtual museum dedicated to the history of television. Besides celebrating the life and legacy of Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, TheHistoryofTV.com includes many authentic Farnsworth artifacts (including the original drawing for the first television camera, which Farnsworth conceived at age fourteen), plus such mementos from the Golden Age of Television as the Emmy Award that First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy won in 1962 for hosting A Tour of the White House. This interview was recorded in January 2020, before the national lockdown. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From May 2011: Stephen Battaglio, author of David Susskind: A Televised Life, discusses former FCC chairman Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" speech on the state of network television, which he delivered on May 9, 1961 at that year's convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. Battaglio interviewed Minow for his Susskind biography; topics this segment include how Minow's speech ultimately changed the landscape in television by giving viewers shows such as Mr. Novak, East Side/West Side, The Defenders, and Star Trek---all of which spoke about the human condition, while also providing entertainment. NOTE: At the time we recorded this interview, Steve Battaglio was business editor for TV Guide magazine. He is currently business editor for the Los Angeles Times. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From May 2011: Ed welcomes back actor and author Dan Frischman (Head of the Class, Kenan & Kel, Jackons & Jenks: Master Magicians). Also an accomplished singer, songwriter, musician, stand-up comedian, and stage magician, Dan talks about his background in music and how magic has always played a vital role throughout his life and career.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 491.1: A return visit by Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the Daytime Emmys). Topics this segment include how viewership of the nightly network evening news broadcasts has increased by about 50 percent since the national lockdown began in March, plus the impact that news coverage of COVID-19 may have on next year’s Emmy categories.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 491.2: Part 2 of our conversation with Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the Daytime Emmys). The National Academy oversees The Daytime Emmys, the Sports Emmys, the News and Documentary Emmys, and the technical and engineering Emmys—the ceremonies for which have all been postponed for the time being because of the corona virus pandemic.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 491.3: Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, tells Ed the back story of the Daytime Emmys’ new logo—a dynamic new emblem that, in many respects, reflects the forward thinking embodied by the National Academy in recent years.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 491.4: Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of The Hollywood Museum, talks to Ed about the various ways in which the Museum is using its social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter) to bring the museum to the public during this time of national lockdown, including a series of videos that will see Ruta Lee, Dee Wallace, Judy Tenuta, Bob Bergen and other stars sharing memories about their favorite Museum exhibits.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 491.5: Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of The Hollywood Museum and chair of both the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to and the Hollywood Historic Tour, talks to Ed about the various Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremonies that are available for streaming on demand, for free, during this time of national lockdown. Other topics include which of the current exhibits at the Hollywood Museum will be on display once the Museum gets the OK to reopen its doors. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 491.6: From December 2013: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome Mark Milano, curator of Kukla.tv, the official website of Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and the producer of Kukla, Fran and Ollie: The First Episodes. Volume 3 of The First Episodes includes guest appearances by guitarist Jose Greco, singer Dennis Day, and NBC news commentator H.V. Kaltenborn, plus black-and-white clips of two KFO episodes that were the among first color television shows ever broadcast. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 491.7: From December 2013: Ed welcomes author, musician, and storyteller John Kruth. John’s book Rhapsody in Black: The Life and Music of Roy Orbison is a comprehensive biography and discography of Roy Orbison, the legendary balladeer who sang about love, pain and heartache like few others—no doubt, because he understood it like few others, having experienced more pain and misery than most of us will see in a lifetime, including the tragic deaths of his first wife and first two children. As John himself put it, perhaps Orbison’s most remarkable attributes as an artist were his kindness and his unfailing ability to make lemonade, no matter what life threw at him. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 491.8: From December 2013: Part 2 of our conversation with John Kruth, author of Rhapsody in Black: The Life and Music of Roy Orbison. Topics this segment include some of Orbison’s notable appearances on television, including Roy Orbison: A Black and White Night, the award-winning special produced by Cinemax that is still considered one of the best concert films ever made. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From May 2011: Donna, Tony, and Ed remember the passing of Hubert Schafly, the engineer who invented the TelePrompTer in 1950. Schafly's device not only enabled actors and politicians to read scripts on TV without looking down, but shaped the content and presentation of TV newscasts on local, network, cable, satellite, and digital television all over the world.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices