When Women Invented Television

TVC 538.3: Ed welcomes TV historian and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Armstrong. Jennifer's latest book, When Women Invented Television, traces the history of the first decade of network television through the lives and accomplishments of four women: Irna Phillips, the originator of many of the first radio and TV soap operas; Gertrude Berg, star and creator of The Goldbergs, and the first woman to write and produce her own prime time series (not to mention brand herself); jazz pianist Hazel Scott, the first African American to host her own national prime time variety series (five years before Nat King Cole); and Betty White, who, long before The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, hosted one of the very first experimental television shows in Los Angeles before becoming one of the first stars, and first Emmy winners, of daytime television.

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