'History of U.S. Television - A Personal Reminiscence': Author Provides Unique Look into the World of Television

'History of U.S. Television - A Personal Reminiscence': Author Provides Unique Look into the World of Television

CINCINNATI, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- In "History of U.S. Television - A Personal Reminiscence" (now available through AuthorHouse), author Lawrence H. Rogers II provides a meticulously detailed account of the television station business from its virtual beginnings in the late 1940s until 1976. The author discusses in detail how a "global village" was created with the birth of television and how it was "fashioned in the image of American radio by the very men and women who had devised the radio medium from scratch barely a generation earlier."

"History of U.S. Television" details Rogers' participation in the foundation of virtually every TV institution: the TV Code, the TV Bureau of Advertising, and the TV Information Office. This personal account includes his involvement in the conversion of Taft Broadcasting Company from a troubled family group to the largest single group operator, including what was then (1963) the biggest dollar volume deal in the history of broadcasting. Rogers details the succession of events that moved Taft from a CBS affiliate to an ABC affiliate, resulting in the rise of ABC to first place in prime time ratings, and the fall of CBS, resulting in the firing of then CBS president Jim Aubrey.

"History of U.S. Television" is an assemblage of all the significant events that occurred in the world of television prior to the introduction of cable, satellite distribution and the other electronic marvels that have completely transformed the medium. "This is merely a chronicle, as accurate as my memory and records can make it, on how television in the United States came to be as it is, from the point of view of one who lived in it and contributed to the shape of many of its institutions," Rogers states.

Rogers earned his bachelor's degree in history from Princeton University and then served as an artillery captain in World War II. After the war, Rogers built the first TV station in West Virginia where he worked from 1946 to 1959. He designed and built the first privately owned microwave transmission system in the TV industry which brought live network service and Major League Baseball to West Virginia. He served as chief operating officer and president of Taft Broadcasting Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, until 1976. Rogers was president and CEO of Omega Communications, Inc., which owned and operated WOFL-TV in Orlando, Fla. During his memorable career, he worked to end the FCC's ban on editorializing by broadcast licensees and became radio and TV's first editorialist. "History of U.S. Television - A Personal Reminiscence" is Rogers' first published book. He is currently working on three other titles and resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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