WI 24 hour television news existed in 1930s?

Emperor Norton I said:
Perhaps William Randolph Hearst could become the Rupert Murdoch of such a thing. However, I think the contemporary reaction will be that a channel dedicated to news will never, ever turn a profit and is not a good idea.
I see two answers to this. One is your Hearst ''yellow journalism" answer, which gives us schlock like "The Insider" & leads to an earlier *CNN. The other is the Ed Murrow answer, a network dedicated to real news in long form, much like the "McNeil-Lehrer Newshour", & leads to something like PBS or BBC.

IMO, the route taken really depends on who does it. If this comes out of CBS, home of Paley & Murrow, it could be the "Newshour" model. If it's Hearst....:eek:

If you really want to know what it would look like, look at what radio was doing in the '30s: it was much the same medium, without the pictures... I agree, the images (like the water hoses & the police dogs in the Civil Rights marches) make a big difference. That said, there is no way in hell you'd get live broadcasts from Midway (or anywhere), even if the comm tech existed; there were radio reporters (& documentary film crews) present at many places, & they held the reports for national security. What you might get is better video coverage, & a better understanding of what war is like--something the U.S. military neglected in Vietnam, by denying media access to the front (or maybe it was lazy reporters:rolleyes:), so all you see is one side: fighting in the streets of Hue (or IEDs in Baghdad), but nothing of the impact on the enemy.

It strikes me this may also lead to an earlier explosion in game shows, to fill the time (given all networks, eventually, follow the 24-hour cycle). That implies something like the quiz show scandal in the late '30s or early '40s.

It also implies production of CRTs for radarscopes is faster & easier, & training radar technicians is easier. (I'm less clear if it means radar is better; IDK if the tech spills the other way, too.)

It's likely electronics generally is more advanced. It's also possible videogames are more advanced; a Pong-like game was designed (but never sold commercially) as early as 1953.:eek:
Penny for The Guy said:
It was not until the media brought down Nixon
That is just so much uninformed fiction.:rolleyes: Nixon was brought down by Congress, not Ben Bradlee. Nor was Vietnam "lost" by Cronkite turning against it...:rolleyes:
 
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Ok, how would a world look like if 24 hour news combined with the openess that the Pentagon showed media in Vietnam look like during WW2 during these events:

Pearl Harbor
Midway(we are getting slaughtered, the tropedoplanes were sent unescorted....hold on, dive bombers have arrived and hurt the japanese)
Tarawa
Omaha Beach
Battle of Normandy until late July
Battle of Leyte
Patton unleashed
Market Garden
Battle of the Bulge
Order from Ike to generals that Berlin is not a target
Okinawa
The atom bombs.

Censorship would ban live coverage of all events listed. If WWII was as open in journalism as Vietnam, the public would be incredibly upset by 1943. The only exception might be Pearl Harbor, having Americans see the attack live would probably increase patriotic sentiment.
 
(I'm less clear if it means radar is better; IDK if the tech spills the other way, too.)

Not much difference between a high power UHF TV transmitter and an S-Band Radar emitter.

Both used Klystron tubes in the '50s, mostly retiring the Magnetron due to is cost and lower efficiency and amplification capability

During the war, lower power klystron tubes were used on the Radar receivers, cavity Magnetron for the transmitter section

UHF was wanted for TV for the additional channels, that started in 1949,as the original 2-13 VHF channels filled up quickly
 

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I agree, the images (like the water hoses & the police dogs in the Civil Rights marches) make a big difference.

I sincerly doubt that. Without social paradigm shift of the IIWW the reactions would be "oh my, that really hurt" to "check out that! Is that's a human hand that this dog is carring??" :D

Simply you cannot expect similar reactions from society if they are thinking in different ways.
 
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