RTA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Massey Hall, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak
9 Sep 2018
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Invited guests discuss the issues of the day or just what"s on their mind. Hosted, the talk is bracketed by music or comedy. Confined to a studio set with a live studio audience. Format has been frozen since the 1970"s. Idea of holding an audience with talk alone. Speakers went on a circuit under a tent. Showed that talk can be attractive to an audience. Main difference from talk shows - talk shows focus more on the talk. Talk on radio actually came after the emergence on tv. Like in early radio, it revolved around the idea of who can you get on the air? . Number of hosts, settles on jerry lester and dagmar. Dagmar was a character played by jennie lewis. Lester leaves, partly because he gets no attention. Takes ideas from broadway open house and develops a local nyc show the tonight. Using nbc"s nyc o and o 1953. Bare bones production to avoid former mistakes.
