To support public broadcasting by giving it a monopoly in the new communication satellite business. But at the time, 1967, another idea appealed more to Congress: Public broadcasting would come ...

Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., presented its 17th annual Fred Friendly First Amendment Award to Gwen Ifill of PBS’s Washington Week, during a luncheon today (June 14) at the Metropolitan Club ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism | By Ralph Engelman, Foreword by Morley Safer ...

Fred W. Friendly, begetter and producer of CBS Reports, likes to call his colleagues “the band of brothers.” What the brethren call him ranges from “brilliant slob” to “self-promoting megalomaniac.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Friendly Dies: First ‘Entertainment Tonight’ Producer, Son Of Legendary CBS Newsman Fred Friendly Was 74 Andy Friendly, the ...

Fred W. Friendly, a pioneering CBS News producer and distinguished media scholar, enjoyed a sixty-year career as remarkable for its longevity as for its accomplishments. As the technically creative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Friendly, the first son of famed CBS newsman Fred Friendly who served as the first producer on Entertainment Tonight and ...

Andy Friendly, the first producer of the long-running syndicated Entertainment Tonight and the son of the legendary CBS newsman Fred Friendly, died Sunday at his home in Bel-Air. He was 74. A cause of ...