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Revision as of 17:35, 26 January 2010
Frances Buss Buch (June 3, 1917 – January 19, 2010) was the first female television director in the United States.[1]
Buch grew up in St. Louis and attended Washington University.[2] In the early 1940s she relocated to New York City, where she had took acting classes and appeared in some off-Broadway productions. In July 1941 she was hired by CBS for a temporary job as receptionist.
She transferred to CBS Television two weeks after the Federal Communications Commission allowed commercial TV broadcasts.
"I had seen TV at the World's Fair, but I had no idea this existed in New York. CBS was a radio network," Buch told a reporter from the Asheville Citizen-Times in 2008.
Buch served as scorekeeper on The CBS Television Quiz and helped coordinate news coverage of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
When TV broadcasts were suspended in 1942, Buch began producing and directing U.S. Navy training films. She returned to CBS in 1944 and was promoted to director in 1945.
In 1951 she directed Premiere, the first color TV broadcast in the United States. She also directed the first television talk show, Mike and Buff, which featured Mike Wallace and his then-wife Buff Cobb and aired from 1951–1953.
In 1949 she married Bill Buch, whom she had met in Florida while making Navy training films. She resigned from CBS in 1954 to be a full-time homemaker.
- ^ Associated Press Report. (2010, January 25). Early TV director Frances Buss Buch dies at 92. The Washington Post, pg B4.
- ^ Associated Press Report. (2010, January 26). Frances Buss Buch dies at 92; network TV pioneer. The Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-frances-buss-buch26-2010jan26,0,6524980.story