I truly believe that we are in the second Golden Era of TV. By looking back at the first big revolution, we can learn some valuable lessons. Part of our mission is to elevate the discussion and criticism of television as well as entertain. (and get paid)
The Golden Age of Television in the United States began sometime in the late 1940s and extended to the late 1950s or early 1960s.
High culture dominated commercial network television programming in the 1950s and 1960s with the first television appearances of Leonard Bernstein and Arturo Toscanini, the first telecasts from Carnegie Hall took place during this era, the first live American telecasts of plays by Shakespeare, the first telecasts of Tchaikovsky's ballets The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker and the first opera specially composed for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors. The Bell Telephone Hour, an NBC radio program, began its TV run, featuring both classical and Broadway performers. All of these were broadcast on NBC, CBS and ABC, something that would be unheard of today. Commercial networks now concentrate on more popular items. The networks then had their own art critics, notably Aline Saarinen and Brian O’Doherty.