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Article: Farewell to the man who made TV; THE WAY IT IS.(Column)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 17, 2002
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Byline: JOHN EDWARDS
SO MUCH death was around that the great Milton Berle faded off in Los Angeles and it wasn't covered very much. He was only 93 and you need to be older to guarantee your space.
Berle deserved plenty. He was a monument because he made television. It didn't make him. And that's the way around it was.
For sure Logie Baird fixed valves and wires in Covent Garden and helped to invent it. All he ended up with was an invention.
Then Milton Berle, in a nearly bare studio in New York in 1948, started to tell jokes to the camera and the few thousand people who had TV sets began to laugh.
Television was a failing ...
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