asner: i ll tell you about the golden age of television. this period in time will be looked upon as the platinum age. lear: our obligation is to entertain, and if we ve left something to think about, so much the better. kunta. kunta kinte. television should not be just entertainment. charges were leveled at the commercial television network. congress has no right interfere with the media. well, excuse me! we have a responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. the years of the 60s, which end in a few hours, have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously, but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. what was allowed that hadn t been before? it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an al
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program and practices these were people who would go through the scripts and say, you can t use this word. we felt like we were in the midst of a battle. this is freedom of speech. at the senate hearings on television violence today, strong charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. the broadcasting industry now stands charged with having molested the minds of our nation s children to serve the cause of corporate profit. the family hour was established by the three networks and the federal communications commission in response to complaints of too much sex and violence on early-evening television. wallace: the family hour, the two hours from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., during which parents and children are supposed to be able to watch television without being made to feel uncomfortable. so it just seemed altogether unfair, and we sued. family hour is under attack from some producers, unions, and others in the television industry. they have filed a lawsuit to have it abolish
the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. bianculli: young people were interested in relevant things, and so television began to reflect that. man: this is cbs. really it was very simple you had three channels, and plus pbs. ken: when the decade turned over into the 70s, television was very rural. cbs had beverly hillbillies, green acres. petticoat junction and these kind of rural fantasies of mayberry as a the hillbilly shows were everywhere, and then they weren t. elana: fred silverman, who was running programming at cbs, said we re gonna get rid of the shows that are the most highly rated, and replace them with shows that they thought would be more appealing to that younger audience. they changed the face of television. my name is norman lear. until 1971, he was a very successful, if largely unheralded producer/writer in hollywood.