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Article: AFTER 33 YEARS, WILLIAM BUCKLEY STEPS OFF THE `FIRING LINE'.(Television)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 23, 1999
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Even many of the guests who turned out at the Museum of Broadcasting in New York last week to pay tribute to William F. Buckley Jr. on the occasion of the taping of the final broadcast of ``Firing Line'' might be forgiven for being surprised that the weekly program was still on the air.
After 33 years, ``Firing Line,'' the longest-running program in television history with the same host, had long since lost its buzz, having been supplanted by many other programs in which outspoken conservative commentators hold forth. But to chroniclers of Buckley's life and the conservative movement, ``Firing Line'' was the first and the most important in widely establishing ...
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