- Shift Happens, Prepare to be Disrupted
Media Magazine, Karen Herman - Monday, September 16, 2013
One sunny Friday afternoon last March, I received a tweet. Though ...
- Mister Rogers: No Tattoos, But Wisdom To Spare
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Ten years after his death in 2003, Fred Rogers -- aka Mist ...
- Love Is On The Air
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Wednesday, February 13, 2013
In time for Valentine's Day, the Archive of American Television opens i ...
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Was A Trekkie
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Wednesday, January 16, 2013
As the nation celebrates Martin Luther King Day on Jan. 21, it ...
- Lighting Up TV Screens For 48 Years: A Brief History Of Rudolph
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, December 18, 2012
It's been 48 years since the holiday stop-motion perennial "Rudolph the Red-Nos ...
- 1% Inspiration, 99% Television
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Wednesday, November 14, 2012
For the 15th anniversary of the Archive of American Television, the publish ...
- Hail To The Tube
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Today we're used to seeing American presidents on television. We're not surpris ...
- Unconventional: Did TV Coverage Turn Political Conventions From News to Scripted Series?
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Monday, September 10, 2012
As the 2012 political conventions come to a close, we thought we ...
- Were There Only 'Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television'?
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, July 24, 2012
July 21 marked the 40th anniversary of George Carlin's arrest for performi ...
- Not That Special: The Hollywood Version
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, June 26, 2012
A few weeks ago, Wellesley High teacher David McCullough gave a much-discuss ...
- Can 'Mad' Women Crash Through the Glass Ceiling?
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Friday, June 1, 2012
Sunday's brilliant "Mad Men" episode, "The Other Woman," touched on the contemptuo ...
- No Wonder We're Stressed: Everyone in Hollywood Has the Same Job!
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Thursday, May 10, 2012
What better time, than while we're checking network scorecards in this year ...
- Series Where TV Doesn't Even Exist Yet Ushers In 'TV Everywhere'
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Wednesday, March 7, 2012
This year's second season finale of "Downton Abbey" on PBS gave t ...
- Backwards To The Future
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Wednesday, February 8, 2012
It seems like over the last several years, in every major intervie ...
- 'These Three-Hour Days Are Killing Me!' And Other Dispatches From The Future
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, January 17, 2012
To many pop culture fans, 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of "T ...
- Smothered: Mom Always Liked Movies About TV Best
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Good news for those of us in the TV history business: we' ...
- Oh, Rob, It Really Wasn't A Simpler Time: 'Dick Van Dyke' Turns 50
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the premiere of "The Di ...
- The Power Of TV: Brought To You By A Nutty Professor And An Unintentional Crime Fighter
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Wednesday, September 14, 2011
There was an absolutely brilliant story line on "30 Rock" last seaso ...
- There's a Reason We Loved Lucy
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Last week marked the 100th birthday of TV legend Lucille Ball. There ...
- Excellent User Experience: Hammered
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Thursday, July 21, 2011
This diatribe has a lot to do with my new iPad2. ...
- The Killing: Did Twitter Change The History Of The Universe (You'll Have To Wait Until Fall)?
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Wednesday, June 22, 2011
It's official. Here's my favorite headline of the 2010-2011 TV season: "T ...
- 'Vast Wasteland' Take Two: Is The Public Interested?
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, May 24, 2011
On May 9, 1961 FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow, an appointee ...
- Spectacles: The Next Generation
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Almost 30 years ago, on July 29, 1981, 750 million people worldwi ...
- Resolutions To Upload By
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Monday, January 17, 2011
The New Year is always a time of reflection and resolutions. ...
- Lessons From 'A Charlie Brown Christmas': Simply A Classic
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Dec. 9th marked the 45th anniversary of the premiere of the Peabod ...
- Gone But Not Forgotten: Mrs. Cleaver And Mr. C
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, November 16, 2010
October was a particularly bad month for iconic TV parents. Within day ...
- Brought To You By The Letters P, B And S
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Southern Californians were shocked last week when public TV station KCET announc ...
- Are We There Yet?
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, September 21, 2010
In his Archive of American Television interview back in 1997, Hugh Down ...
- Upload It And They Will Come
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, August 24, 2010
For television historians, it used to be that the only way ...
