The TV Room

Where the 8-track meets the laugh track. Insights and flashbacks into the culture of the late 20th Century, and beyond.

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6. The Electoral College & You

Posted January 9, 201700:27:24

In this episode of the TV Room podcast, with the shadow of the 2016 Presidential election looming large, we ask and attempt to answer: * What's up...

5. Trump. A TV Antihero is President

Posted November 24, 201600:36:47

On this episode of the TV ROOM PODCAST: Donald Trump takes the White House...What started with JFK looking more presidential during a televised debate...

4. The Summer of Love (Part I)

Posted October 25, 201600:50:35

In this episode of the TV Room: The Jefferson Airplane visit American Bandstand…..The Beatles turn on…..San Francisco talent + L.A. marketing =...

3. The Turbulence of 1968: RFK, MLK, Vietnam, LBJ

Posted September 30, 201601:01:16

Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 Election in a landslide, and managed to get landmark legislation passed early in his term. Yet, by early 1968, the Vietnam...

2. Did TV Invent the Rock Star?

Posted September 30, 201600:41:05

On the second episode of the TV ROOM PODCAST, we notice that the phenomenon of the rock star came about just when the television was arriving en masse...