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==Episode status==
==Episode status==
Only one episode is known to exist, "Peace in the Middle East" (first broadcast November 2, 1952), held by the [[Paley Center for Media]].
Only two episodes are known to exist, "Peace in the Middle East" (first broadcast November 2, 1952), held by the [[Paley Center for Media]], along with another episode "Should Truman be Renominated?" as part of the Peabody collection<ref>http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/parc.cgi?userid=galileo&dbs=parc&ini=parc.ini&action=retrieve&recno=5&format=_citation</ref>.


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 01:50, 14 July 2012

Keep Posted
Presented byMartha Rountree (moderator)
Lawrence Spivak (panelist)
Ray Wood (panelist)
Country of origin United States
Production
Running time30 Minutes
Original release
NetworkDuMont
ReleaseOctober 9, 1951 –
January 18, 1954

Keep Posted (also known as The Big Issue) was a United States public affairs TV series on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network which was sponsored by The Saturday Evening Post for its first season.

Broadcast history

Keep Posted was a 30-minute program which aired on DuMont on Tuesdays at 8:30 pm EST (moved to Mondays at 8:30pm EST in the final season) from October 9, 1951 to January 18, 1954. Martha Rountree was the moderator, and Lawrence Spivak and Ray Wood were among the panelists.[1][2]

Episode status

Only two episodes are known to exist, "Peace in the Middle East" (first broadcast November 2, 1952), held by the Paley Center for Media, along with another episode "Should Truman be Renominated?" as part of the Peabody collection[3].

See also

References

Bibliography

  • David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
  • Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
  • Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1