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Article: `Uncle Miltie'.(Editorials)(Berle helped usher in the modern TV era)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2002
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Milton Berle, who died Wednesday at age 93, certainly wasn't the most handsome performer in American show business. Nor was he the funniest comedian. But he was a show-biz pioneer who, more than any entertainer of his time, helped popularize a new entertainment medium known as television.
When Berle launched the "Texaco Star Theater" on NBC in September 1948, there were about 400,000 TV sets in the United States. Within months, with his show drawing ratings of up to 80 percent, the number of TVs in the country passed 1 ...
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