#155 Sesame Street to Seinfeld: NYC TV 1969-2013

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2013

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In the third part of the Bowery Boys Summer TV Mini-Series, we give you a grand tour of the New York City television production world from the 1970s to today, from the debut of Sesame Street in the Upper West Side to the flourishing 1990s, where the city was represented by a few iconic shows, including Sex And The City and Seinfeld. Along the way, hear about the debuts of public access, HBO, MTV, the Cosby Show, NY1 and, of course, the TV show that employed thousands of New Yorkers during its two-decade run -- Law and Order. Bong-bonggg! www.boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 155, Sesame Street, Seinfeld, and the Modern Age of New York TV.
0:07.0	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.
0:09.0	Hey.
0:11.0	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
0:15.0	EuroChipo's editors inspect and recommend the best budget hotels in Europe.
0:21.0	On the web, at EuroChipo.com.
0:24.0	Hi there.
0:25.0	Welcome to The Bowry Boys.
0:27.0	This is Greg Young.
0:28.0	Tom is not here for our third part of The Bowry Boys' New York City and the television industry.
0:35.0	Our summer TV miniseries.
0:37.0	To give you a little recap of what we've been talking about so far.
0:40.0	In the first part, we shared some tales of television's invention.
0:44.0	From the experimental stations at the Hotel Roosevelt in 1927,
0:49.0	to the grandstanding announcement of a new television age by David Sarnoff, the world's fair.
0:54.0	In 1939.
0:56.0	In the second part, which we did last month,
0:58.0	Tom and I walked you past a few significant locations in Midtown Manhattan
1:02.0	that were made famous during the golden age of television.
1:05.0	From the late 1940s to the early 1960s,
1:08.0	those great studios of the Ed Sullivan show, the Honeymooners, and the Today Show.
1:13.0	So today I'll present to you the highlights of television production in New York
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