Keep Posted
| Keep Posted | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | The Big Issue |
| Presented by | Martha Rountree (moderator) Lawrence Spivak (panelist) Ray Wood (panelist) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 Minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | DuMont |
| Release | October 9, 1951 – January 18, 1954 |
Keep Posted (later known as The Big Issue is an American public affairs TV series on the DuMont Television Network which was sponsored by The Saturday Evening Post for its first two seasons.[1]
Broadcast history
Keep Posted is a 30-minute program that aired on DuMont on Tuesdays at 8:30 pm EST[2] 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.[1]
Martha Rountree was the moderator, and Lawrence Spivak[2] 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.[3]
Episode status
Only two episodes are known to exist, "Peace in the Middle East" (first broadcast November 2, 1952), held by the
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
- ^ ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
- ^ ISBN 0-345-42923-0.
- ^ "Taft, Russell debate U. S. Foreign Policy". The New York Times. April 23, 1952. p. 16. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
- ^ "The Ultimate CGI". dbs.galib.uga.edu.
Bibliography
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: ISBN 1-59213-245-6
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: ISBN 0-345-31864-1
External links
- Keep Posted at IMDb
- DuMont historical website
