From: Michael Pederson <mike at nthzine.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Meet The P/r/e/s/s/ Re: New Dr. Who
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:19:56 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Wow. From Doctor Who to Ted White. What a long strange trip its been.

Michael D. Pederson
Publisher/Editor
Nth Degree

On Apr 14, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:

>> kfl at KeithLynch.net 4/14/2005 6:21:50 PM >>>
>> Are we talking about the longest a show has been off the air before
>> returning, or the longest a show has run?
>>
>> If the latter, the record is held by "Meet the Press," an NBC series
>> which has been running for the past 58 years.
>
> "Meet The Press, America's longest-running television series premiered
> on NBC-TV 6 November 1947...  Lawrence E. Spivak debuted the program in
> 1945 as a radio program to promote his magazine American Mercury."
> <http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/meetthepres/
> meetthepress.htm>
>
> The American Mercury had been founded by H. L. Mencken, for a detailed
> history: http://www.spinnaker.com/VILA/bbs-docs/docs/mencken.txt
>
> The name of the publishing company for The American Mercury was Mercury
> Press, which in 1941 started publishig Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
> (see: http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/Whodunit_7.html).
>
> In 1949, using the imprint Fantasy House, Mercury Press published a
> magazine called: The Magazine of Fantasy.  For the second issue it was
> retitled The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Ficiton. (see:
> http://www.sfsite.com/vault/john46.htm ).
>
> And Ted White was employed at F&SF: Assistant Editor - 1963 NOV - 1967
> MAR, Associate Editor -1967 APR - 1968 MAY
> <http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/bibliography/bibliostaff.htm>.  The
> following year he was editor of Amazing & Fantastic.
>
> mjw
>