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October 18, 2026
E62: The First Living Room War: When Cronkite Broke Ranks
By 1967, half a million American troops were fighting in Vietnam, and the casualty figures had become a nightly fixture in American living rooms....
00:19:23
October 11, 2026
E61: All You Need Is Love: The Night Television Went Global | Countdown #47
In 1945, a young British radar instructor named Arthur C. Clarke imagined satellites orbiting high above the Earth, relaying radio and television signals around...
00:14:46
October 04, 2026
E60: The First Super Bowl: The Game Television Built | Countdown #48
In the beginning, there was baseball. But by the 1960s, television had discovered that football was almost perfectly designed for the small screen. From...
00:14:24
September 27, 2026
E59: Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Message | Countdown #49
In 1964, Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and gave the television age a way to understand itself. McLuhan argued that...
00:14:43
September 20, 2026
E58: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! The Night Beatlemania Came To America | Countdown to the Centennial #50
On February 9, 1964, more than 70 million Americans tuned in to The Ed Sullivan Show to see four young musicians from Liverpool who...
00:13:57
September 13, 2026
E57: Play It Again: The Day Television Learned to Rewind Time | 100 Years of TV #51
On December 7, 1963, the Army and Navy football teams met in Philadelphia for a game already heavy with national emotion. Postponed after the...
00:10:49