Watch the best color performances from The Ed Sullivan Show – here! Color television is so commonplace today that it’s easy to forget there was a time when black and white was the only option. But the shift to color didn’t happen overnight, it was the product of years of technological breakthroughs, regulatory hurdles, and […]
He was a cultural TV icon best known for introducing Elvis and the Beatles, but Ed Sullivan had a much deeper effect on American music and culture than most ever realized. For twenty-three years, tens of millions of people gathered around the television to see what new and different acts he might feature on his […]
Long before HBO turned Sunday night into TV-monoculture ground zero, there was Ed Sullivan. Born in Harlem and raised in Port Chester, New York, the sportswriter, syndicated columnist and radio-program personality was tapped by CBS to host a weekly variety show for the television network. The master of ceremonies had a few ideas about what […]
