''Keep Posted'' (later known as ''The Big Issue'' is an American
public affairs TV series on the
DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network (also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, simply DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont ) was one of America's pioneer commercial television networks, rivaling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being ...
which was sponsored by ''
The Saturday Evening Post'' for its first two seasons.
Broadcast history
''Keep Posted'' is a 30-minute program that aired on DuMont on Tuesdays at 8:30 pm EST
from October 9, 1951, to January 18, 1954. The title was changed to ''The Big Issue'' after the ''Post'' stopped sponsoring the program in May 1953.
Martha Rountree
Martha Jane Rountree (October 23, 1911 – August 23, 1999) was an American pioneering broadcast journalist and entrepreneur. She was the creator and first moderator of a public-affairs program, first on radio as ''The American Mercury'' f ...
was the moderator, and
Lawrence Spivak
Lawrence Edmund Spivak (June 11, 1900 – March 9, 1994) was an American publisher and journalist who was best known as the co-founder, producer and host of the prestigious public affairs program ''Meet the Press''. He and journalist Martha Rountr ...
and Ray Wood were among the panelists. Both Rountree and Spivak were involved in the creation of ''
Meet the Press'' on
NBC.
Episodes included one in which United States Senators Robert A. Taft and Richard B. Russell debated foreign policy on April 22, 1952.
Episode status
Only two episodes are known to exist, "Peace in the Middle East" (first broadcast November 2, 1952), held by the
Paley Center for Media, along with another 1952 episode "Should Truman Be Renominated?" as part of the
Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...
collection.
See also
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List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
This is a list of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network, which operated in the United States from 1942 to 1956. All regularly scheduled programs which were aired on the DuMont network are listed below, regardless of whether they orig ...
*
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
The DuMont Television Network was launched in 1946 and ceased broadcasting in 1956. Allen DuMont, who created the network, preserved most of what it produced in kinescope format. By 1958, however, much of the library had been destroyed to recover ...
References
Bibliography
*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2004)
*Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York:
Penguin Books, 1980)
*Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'', Third edition (New York:
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1998 and remains ...
, 1964) {{ISBN, 0-345-31864-1
External links
''Keep Posted'' at IMDB
DuMont Television Network original programming
1951 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows