All About TV Recordings

An inventory of the collection at Syracuse University

Overview of the Collection
Title:	All About TV Recordings
Inclusive Dates:	1990-1995
Quantity:	32 linear ft.
Abstract:	Videotape recordings of the television show All About TV. Also includes a few recordings of Day at Night and Television in America.
Language:	English
Repository:	Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu

Biographical History

All About TV, later called World:Comm, was a television series produced by television critic Steven H. Scheuer and Loomis Irish, Head of the Television and Radio Department at Brooklyn College. It ran on WNET-Channel 13 in New York City between 1992 and 1995. The series examined a sweeping range of issues relating to television and media, including violence on television, cameras in the courtroom, children's television, deregulation, political campaigns, advertising, soap opera addiction, coverage of Vietnam, and much more. Panelists and guests featured on its 200+ episodes included Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ed Koch, Bill Kurtis, Lewis Friedman, Robert MacNeil, and many more.

Day at Night was a public television series hosted by the late James Day, co-founder of KQED in San Francisco, president of the New York City television station WNET, and Chairman of the Advisory Board for City University Television in New York (CUNY TV) . The show featured interviews with notable cultural and political figures conducted in the mid 1970's.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The All About TV Recordings consists of approximately 330 videotape recordings of episodes of the 1990s series. Panlists and guests featured in the collection include David Webster, US Director for the BBC; Lawrence Grossman, President of PBS; economist John Kenneth Galbraith; journalist Bill Kurtis; New York mayor Ed Koch; NBC journlist Linda Ellerbee; journalist Daniel Schorr; television critic Pat Aufderheide; and many more. Topics addressed spanned the entire range of political, social, economic, educational and technological issues surrounding television, including social responsibility and TV, soap opera addiction, politics and television news, sex and violence, the First Amendment, television in the courtroom, children's television, Vietnam and other war coverage, the impact of media on social behavior, and much much more.

Also included in the collection are ten videorecordings of episodes of Day At Night. Interviewees are primarily from the entertainment field and include Ozzie Nelson, Art Linkletter, E.G. Marshall, and Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Finally, there are sixteen episodes of Television in America: First Person Singular, an interview series. Interviewees include Ed Bleier, Heywood Broun, Mike Wallace and other journalists.

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Arrangement of the Collection

Recordings are subdivided by show title and within that are in order by the call number assigned to them during cataloging.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Access to recordings requires advance notice in order to produce a use copy.

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

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Related Material

Special Collections Research Center has extensive collections relating to radio, television and film history, including the papers of Stephen Scheuer and Ed Bleier. Please refer to SUMMIT, our main catalog for a complete listing.

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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

All About TV Recordings,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library

Acquisition Information

Transfer from Media Services, 2010.

Finding Aid Information

Created by: SB
Date: Jun 2010
Revision history: 29 Sep 2010 - converted to EAD (MRC)

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Inventory

	All About TV
Box 1		B1000 The world of TV commercials
Box 1		B1001 Public television : whose public
Box 1		B1002 TV, politics and the news
Box 1		B1003 Keeping your eye on TV
Box 1		B1004 CBS : reflections in a bloodshot eye. A talk with Robert Metz
Box 1		B1005 TV politics : equal time for whom
Box 1		B1006 TV sponsors : can they influence what the public sees
Box 1		B1007 A conversation with David Webster, U.S. Director for BBC
Box 1		B1008 A conversation with Lawrence K. Grossman, president of PBS
Box 1		B1010 CBS : the power and the profits. A conversation with David Halberstam
Box 2		B1011 The television documentary
Box 2		B1012 Soap opera addiction : is it harmful
Box 2		B1013 TV, politics and money Part II
Box 2		B1014 Sex and violence : viewer bait
Box 2		B1015 Social responsibility and TV Parts I - II
Box 2		B1016 Social responsibility and TV Parts I - II
Box 2		B1017 Assault on the media : the Nixon years
Box 2		B1018 The good guys, the bad guys and the First Amendment : a talk with Fred W. Friendly
Box -		B1019 Cable TV : growth of an industry
Box 2		B1020 Kojak & Co. Selling the audience
Box 2		B1021 Kojak & Co. Selling of ideas
Box 3		B1022 Kojak & Co. Selling ideologies for export
Box 3		B1023 The new television season
Box 3		B1024 The manipulators
Box 3		B1025 TV coverage of election night : which network won
Box 3		B1026 TV news : the movie, Network
Box 3		B1027 The view from highway one
Box 3		B1029 Tuning in on politics Part 1
Box 3		B1030 Freedom & fairness : another viewpoint
Box 3		B1031 The subject is soap opera
Box 3		B1032 Checks and balances in the media
Box 4		B1033 The golden age of television
Box 4		B1034 Kids, food & television
Box 4		B1034 Sex, violence and free speech
Box 4		B1036 Media ecology
Box 4		B1037 Local news : style or substance
Box 4		B1038 Local news : trojan horse in the newsroom
Box 4		B1039 A conversation with John Kenneth Galbraith
Box 4		B1040 A conversation with John Kenneth Galbraith
Box 4		B1041 Stage to screen : theater on TV
Box 4		B1042 Public TV : whose public, how public
Box 4		B1043 Television & the public interest
Box 5		B1044 TV as teacher : decoding the messages
Box 5		B1045 Censorship in the arts
Box 5		B1046 How the British view American TV
Box 5		B1047 Television cops and the law
Box 5		B1048 A conversation with Nicholas Johnson
Box 5		B1049 The CIA's secret army : an investigative report
Box 5		B1050 Visions : a conversation with Barbara Schultz
Box 5		B1051 DocuDrama : fact or fiction
Box 5		B1052 TV : the show and tell machine
Box 5		B1053 Funding the arts
Box 6		B1054 Clearing the air : a conversation with Daniel Schorr
Box 6		B1055 Televising Congress
Box 6		B1056 A conversation with Les Brown Part II
Box 6		B1057 TV sports : America's modern religion
Box 6		B1058 TV sports : coverage or control
Box 6		B1059 The TV family
Box 6		B1060 New electronic media
Box 6		B1061 TV : an international viewpoint
Box 6		B1062 Remote control Parts 1 - 2 : TV manipulates America
Box 6		B1063 Remote control Parts 1 - 2 : TV manipulates America
Box 7		B1064 TV journalism Parts I - II : how free
Box 7		B1065 TV journalism Parts I - II : how free
Box 7		B1066 Independent film, video and public TV
Box 7		B1067 The politics of public service advertising
Box 7		B1068 A conversation with Benjamin Hooks
Box 7		B1069 The business of commercial TV
Box 7		B1070 Conversation with Sylvester "Pat" Weaver
Box 7		B1071 Advertising on children's tv
Box 7		B1072 Television in the courtroom
Box 7		B1073 Television in the courtroom
Box 8		B1074 Business coverage on TV
Box 8		B1075 A question of access Part II : the independents sue the networks
Box 8		B1076 Communicating in the eighties
Box 8		B1077 A discussion about public television
Box 8		B1078 A conversation with Al Levin
Box 8		B1079 Let's make a deal
Box 8		B1080 Media Works : a CETA project
Box 8		B1081 Network television and the public interest
Box 8		B1082 TV and political campaigning Part II
Box 8		B1083 Carnegie Commission report Parts I - II : the future of public broadcasting
Box 9		B1084 Carnegie Commission report Parts I - II : the future of public broadcasting
Box 9		B1085 Carnegie Commission report Parts I - II : the future of public broadcasting
Box 9		B1086 Communications legislation for the 1980's
Box 9		B1087 Television and the public interest
Box 9		B1088 10,000 nights of network television
Box 9		B1089 Cameras in the courtroom
Box 9		B1090 Media madness & our schools
Box 9		B1091 Meet the Baxters : America's newest TV family
Box 9		B1092 The dollars and cents of TV sports
Box 9		B1093 FCC to networks : c - on kids' shows
Box 10		B1094 It's still a long way, baby : women in media
Box 10		B1095 CIA on TV
Box 10		B1096 The networks : how they stole the show
Box 10		B1097 TV in the 70's : a review
Box 10		B1098 TV diplomacy Parts I - II
Box 10		B1099 TV diplomacy Parts I - II
Box 10		B1100 Talking back to your TV
Box 10		B1101 The Museum of Broadcasting
Box 10		B1102 Media As Big Business *
Box 10		B1103 The American Short Story *
Box 11		B1104 Ford Rowan - A Man with a Conscience *
Box 11		B1105 The Electronic Church *
Box 11		B1106 CIA on TV
Box 11		B1107 Cable Network News - Part Two *
Box 11		B1108 TV and Political Campaigns - Part One *
Box 11		B1109 TV and Political Campaigns - Part Two *
Box 11		B1110 A Conversation with William T. Henry II *
Box 11		B1111 Prime Time American (Robert Sklar) *
Box 11		B1112 Teaching Critical Viewing *
Box 11		B1113 The Best of International TV *
Box 12		B1114 TV Coverage of Campaign in '80 *
Box 12		B1115 The New Science Boom on TV *
Box 12		B1116 A conversation with Brian Winston
Box 12		B1117 The tonight Show
Box 12		B1118 Public TV : new directions
Box 12		B1119 Communications technology : new uses
Box 12		B1120 Local News *
Box 12		B1121 Image of Older People on TV *
Box 12		B1122 A Conversation with Henry Geller *
Box 12		B1123 A Conversation with Henry Geller - Part Two *
Box 12		B1124 Decola - NBC News Mag *
Box 13		B1125 Golden age of television
Box 13		B1126 Deregulation of the Networks *
Box 13		B1127 The Images of Businessmen on TV *
Box 13		B1128 Untitled *
Box 13		B1129 John Beck (Guest) *
Box 13		B1130 Lawrence Grossman (Guest) *
Box 13		B1131 Wicklein, Koughman - Part One *
Box 13		B1132 Wicklein, Koughman - Part Two *
Box 13		B1133 The Information Society - Part One *
Box 13		B1134 The Information Society - Part Two *
Box 13		B1135 Women in TV Sports *
Box 14		B1136 All About TV : TV News - A Conversation with Dave Marash *
Box 14		B1137 TV News - A Conversation with Dave Marash (Part Two) *
Box 14		B1138 Kicking the TV Habit *
Box 14		B1139 Nightline - New Directions in TV News *
Box 14		B1140 Women in Cable *
Box 14		B1141 Women in Cable (Part Two) *
Box 14		B1142 Programming for Cable *
Box 14		B1143 A Conversation with Tony Schwartz *
Box 14		B1144 Middletown - A Conversation with Peter Downs *
Box 14		B1145 Middletown - A Conversation with Peter Downs - Part Two *
Box 15		B1146 Low Power *
Box 15		B1147 Paul Klein
Box 15		B1148 Who Needs - of Network News *
Box 15		B1149 The 2nd American Revolution *
Box 15		B1150 New Directions in TV News *
Box 15		B1150 New Directions in TV News *
Box 15		B1151 A Conversation with Lewis Friedman - Part One *
Box 15		B1152 A Conversation with Lewis Friedman - Part Two *
Box 15		B1153 A Conversation with Bob Teague *
Box 15		B1154 CBS Cable : a look at cultural programming
Box 15		B1155 A Conversation with Robert MacNeil - Part One *
Box 16		B1156 A Conversation with Robert MacNeil - Part Two *
Box 16		B1157 A Conversation with Robert Mcneil (Copy) *
Box 16		B1158 Big Blue Marble *
Box 16		B1159 A Conversation with Paul Duke *
Box 16		B1160 A Conversation with Charles Collingwood *
Box 16		B1161 A Conversation with Charles Collingwood - Part Two *
Box 16		B1162 Information Revolution - Telextex and Videotex *
Box 16		B1164 Cable Health Network *
Box 16		B1165 Children's TV Parts 1 - 2
Box 16		B1166 Children's TV Parts 1 - 2
Box 16		B1167 Children's TV Part 2
Box 17		B1167 Children's TV Parts 1 - 2
Box 16		B1168 Children's TV Part 2
Box 17		B1168 Children's TV Parts 1 - 2
Box 17		B1169 A conversation with Frank Blair
Box 17		B1170 TV coverage of Central America Part 2
Box 18		B1171 TV coverage of South America
Box 17		B1172 Porn on Cable
Box 17		B1173 Money & politics
Box `		B1174 Money & politics
Box 17		B1175 CBS Nightwatch
Box 17		B1175 NBC Overnight
Box 17		B1176 American journey
Box 17		B1177 Dupont / Columbia Awards *
Box 17		B1177 Media Speak *
Box 20		B1178 Satellite News Network *
Box 20		B1179 War Peace and the News Media *
Box 18		B1180 DocuDrama (Parts One and Two) *
Box 18		B1181 Women and Techonlogy *
Box 18		B1182 Media monopoly
Box 18		B1183 Interview with Budd Schulberg
Box 18		B1184 Deregulation of cable
Box 18		B1184 Deregulation of Cable *
Box 18		B1185 Vietnam Parts 1-2
Box 18		B1185a Vietnam Parts 1-2
Box 18		B1186 The new season Part 2
Box 18		B1187 Technologies of freedom Parts 1 - 2
Box 18		B1188 Technologies of freedom Parts 1 - 2
Box 19		B1189 Inside prime time
Box 19		B1190 Bill Kurtis on assignment
Box 19		B1191 Channels of communications
Box 19		B1192 Children's TV
Box 19		B1193 To sing our own song : the Philippines
Box 19		B1194 Campaign alert
Box 19		B1195 Adult learning service on PBS
Box 19		B1196 Changing nature of foreign reporting
Box 19		B1197 Channels
Box 19		B1198 The public's right to know
Box 20		B1199 Higher education through telecommunications
Box 20		B1200 Soap operas
Box 20		B1201 The political documentary
Box 20		B1202 A conversation with Brian Winston
Box 20		B1203 A conversation with Stephen Fleischman Parts 1 - 2
Box 20		B1204 A conversation with Stephen Fleischman Parts 1 - 2
Box 20		B1205 Your children, our children
Box 20		B1206 A conversation with Ted Sorensen Part 2
Box 21		B1207 Lifetime
Box 21		B1208 Organized labor and TV
Box 21		B1209 The TV turnoff
Box 21		B1210 Where's cable headed
Box 21		B1211 Where's cable headed
Box 21		B1212 Concealed enemies
Box 21		B1213 Concealed enemies
Box 21		B1214 The uncounted enemyLibrary has: Part 2.
Box 21		B1215 NBC in Lebanon Part 1 Part 2
Box 21		B1216 NBC in Lebanon Part 1 Part 2
Box 22		B1217 NBC in Lebanon Part 1 Part 2
Box 22		B1219 Cable T.V.franchises
Box 21		B1219 The uncounted enemyLibrary has: Part 2.
Box 22		B1220 Television in American culture
Box 22		B1221 Comedy zone
Box 22		B1222 TV and the presidential election
Box 22		B1223 Civilization and the Jews
Box 22		B1224 Campaign '84
Box 22		B1225 Cameras in the courtroom Parts 1 - 2
Box 22		B1226 Cameras in the courtroom Parts 1 - 2
Box 22		B1227 Broadcast fairness
Box 23		B1228 60 minutes
Box 23		B1229 A conversation with Bruce Christensen
Box 23		B1230 A conversation with Linda Ellerbee
Box 23		B1231 The crowded new world of TV
Box 23		B1232 TV coverage of the economy
Box 23		B1233 TV coverage of the economy
Box 23		B1234 TV coverage of the Ethiopian famine
Box 23		B1235 A conversation with Barbara Feldon
Box 23		B1236 A conversation with Ed Koch
Box 24		B1237 Dupont Columbia awards
Box 24		B1238 Beer and wine ban
Box 24		B1238 C-SPAN
Box 24		B1239 Children's programming
Box 24		B1240 A conversation with Charles Osgood
Box 24		B1240 Independent stations
Box 24		B1241 Roundup prime time
Box 24		B1242 Roundup prime time
Box 24		B1243 Crisis in Central America
Box 24		B1243 TV coverage of Central America
Box 24		B1244 Crisis in Central America
Box 24		B1245 TV coverage of Central America
Box 24		B1246 Children's TV : promise and practice
Box 24		B1247 Children's TV : promise and practice
Box 24		B1247 Vietnam Parts 1 - 2 : the controversy continues
Box 25		B1248 Vietnam Parts 1 - 2 : the controversy continues
Box 25		B1249 A look at CBS Part 1
Box 25		B1250 A conversation with Danial Schorr
Box 25		B1251 A Conversation with Will A. Newharth *
Box 25		B1252 The heart of the dragon
Box 25		B1253 Independent documentaries
Box 25		B1254 Nanzi Adzima Parts 1 - 2
Box 25		B1255 Nanzi Adzima Parts 1 - 2
Box 25		B1256 Television and aging
Box 25		B1257 Educational programs for children
Box 26		B1258 Public access
Box 26		B1259 CNN
Box 26		B1260 A conversation with James Duffy
Box 26		B1261 News at any cost
Box 26		B1262 Show 103 - Schechner
Box 26		B1263 The impact of media on social behavior Parts 1 - 2
Box 26		B1264 The impact of media on social behavior Parts 1 - 2
Box 26		B1265 60 minutes
Box 26		B1266 A conversation with Mark Goodson
Box 26		B1267 West 57th
Box 27		B1268 A conversation with Richard Hottelet Parts 1-2
Box 27		B1269 A conversation with Richard Hottelet Parts 1-2
Box 27		B1270 Cablevisions
Box 27		B1271 American playhouse 5th season
Box 27		B1272 Video 1995
Box 27		B1273/B1274 Local news Part 1-2
Box 27		B1275 Children & TV
Box 27		B1276 Saturday night a backstage history of Saturday night live
Box 27		B1277 Perry Wolff
Box 28		B1278 Public access
Box 28		B1279 Financial news on TV
Box 28		B1280 Media reform
Box 28		B1281 Communicating on TV
Box 28		B1282 Funding public TV
Box 28		B1283 Documentary filmmakers
Box 28		B1284 Documentary filmmakers
Box 28		B1285 Stephen Hess
Box 28		B1286 Helen Wagner/Julianne Moore
Box 28		B1287 Kim Zimmer/Kathryn Hays
Box 29		B1288 Downsizing
Box 29		B1288 TV news
Box 29		B1289 TV news
Box 29		B1290 A conversation with Jack Willis
Box 29		B1291 Murrow Parts 1-2 : his life and times
Box 29		B1292 Murrow Parts 1-2 : his life and times
Box 29		B1293 The new season Parts 1-2
Box 29		B1294 Media watching
Box 29		B1295 The entrepreneurs : an American adventure
Box 29		B1296 The entrepreneurs : an American adventure
Box 29		B1297 The future of network news
Box 30		B1298 TV coverage of terrorism
Box 30		B1299 So you want to write a soap opera
Box 30		B1300 Is late night becoming prime time
Box 30		B1301 TV and the political process
Box 30		B1302 John Hendricks
Box 30		B1302 R.E. Mulholland
Box 30		B1303 David Marc and Daniel Czitrom
Box 30		B1304 Charlie Rose
Box 30		B1305 Henry Hampton : eyes on the prize
Box 30		B1306 Michael Pertschuk
Box 30		B1307 John Hess, Roger Rosenblatt
Box 31		B1308 Norman Isaacs
Box 31		B1309 James Monaco on Baseline
Box 31		B1310 Media bias
Box 31		B1311 Television
Box 31		B1312 Cable programming
Box 31		B1313 Prime times, bad times
Box 31		B1314 Prime times, bad times
Box 31		B1315 Who killed CBS
Box 31		B1316 TV critic Pat Aufderheide
Box 31		B1317 MacNeil/Lehrer newshour : campaign '88
Box 31		B1318 Demo tape
Box 32		B1319 Interviews about TV on the street
Box 32		B1320 Interviews about TV on the street
Box 32		B1321 CNN

	Day At Night
Box 32		Guest - Art Linkletter *
Box 32		Guest - Burt Tillstrom *
Box 32		Guest - E. G. Marshall *
Box 32		Guest - Howard K. Smith *
Box 32		Guest - Jonathan Winter *
Box 32		Guest - Newton Minow *
Box 32		Guest - Ozzie Nelson *
Box 32		Guest - Sam Levinson *
Box 32		Guest - Studs Terkel *
Box 32		Guest - Tennessee Ernie Ford *

	Television in America
Box 32		First Person Singular - Andy Rooney *
Box 32		First Person Singular - Bernard Birnbaum, Part One *
Box 32		First Person Singular - Bernard Birnbaum, Part Two *
Box 32		First Person Singular - Ed Bleier *
Box 32		First Person Singular - George Dessart *
Box 32		First Person Singular - Heywood Hale Broun *
Box 32		First Person Singular - John Sharnik *
Box 32		First Person Singular - Mike Wallace *
Box 32		First Person Singular - Perry "Skee" Wolff Part One *
Box 32		First Person Singular - Phillip Scheffler *
Box 32		First Person Singular - Richard Hottelet *
Box 32		First Person Singular - Robin Morgan *
Box 32		First Person Singular - William Baker *
Box 32		First Person Singular - William Sloan *
Box 32		Garrick Utley Interview Part Two *
Box 32		Morley Safer Interview *

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