Author writes about golden days of Detroit TV
Tim Kiska, a journalist and media analyst, has written a short encyclopedia on the history of Detroit television.
Tim Kiska, a journalist and media analyst, has written a short encyclopedia on the history of Detroit television.
Excerpts from the article:
In the satellite age, television isn’t about rabbit ears anymore. But sadly, as Tim Kiska reminds us in From Soupy to Nuts! A History of Detroit Television, it’s also not about distinctively local TV, at least not in the amount once produced in cities like Detroit.
There are forgotten shows like Bowling for Dollars, Swingin’ Time (which introduced Bob Seger to the not-quite-big time) and the infamous Hamtramck, a 1987 sitcom on WDIV (Channel 4) cited by Kiska as “signaling the end of local entertainment programming in Detroit.”
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