For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented.
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Before Survivor, before The Real World, before all The Real Housewives and The Celebrity Apprentice, there was Allen Funt.
Allen Funt's concept for a television show was deceptively simple: what would people do if they didn’t know they were being watched by a hidden camera?
From that simple premise On August 10, 1948, Allen Funt brought an entirely new kind of program to the ABC-TV network. Candid Camera was unscripted, unrehearsed, and genuinely real. Decades later, the genre Funt pioneered would morph into the "everybody knows there are cameras" format now known as "reality" TV.
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Visit: https://100YearsTV.com
Read: The Boy Who Invented Television: https://amz.run/6ag1
