Episode 111: Steve Besserman: Packaging Feature Films for National Broadcast

This week join us for a truly Steve-centric episode as Steve Voorhees welcomes longtime CBS Manager of Prime Time Feature Films, Steve Besserman to the program. If you love the nuts-and-bolts of late-20th Century network television practices as Steve Voorhees does, you'll dig this episode. Learn about how the network chose, edited, scheduled, and promoted certain feature films to achieve the highest rating possible. Hear how certain directors would actually get involved with the edits needed for either timing or censorship reasons. Also, hear about the role "made-for-TV-movies" had on the presentation of feature films on TV.

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Episode 111: Steve Besserman: Packaging Feature Films for National Broadcast is an episode from Inside the Box: The TV History Podcast by jonathan.m.bullinger@gmail.com.

This episode is 1:04:08 long.

This episode was published on Nov 7, 2024.

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