Golden Age TV was Better

Since the second World War, TV and America have grown together, and the changes in television make many of us long for the good old days. In the early years, television was more of a learning tool, with educational programming and newsreel footage. One of the things that helped popularize the medium was sports, and the first sport to be broadcast to the masses was professional wrestling. Soon, the first big stars were wrestlers like Gorgeous George and my own father, world heavyweight champion Chief Don Eagle. Eventually baseball and football became the darlings of the audiences when fields added better lighting and played more games at night, games that wound up on TV. The early news programs used upwardly well-endowed women as "Weather Girls". Men, in their dreamy-eyed stupor over the wealth of weather knowledge these ladies had, were unaware of the trick used by broadcasters. Most of these lady "meteorologists" didn't know a cold front from a rainstorm. They merely read their information off cue cards. When they drew the temperatures on the black board behind them, the numbers were pre-written in blue or red chalk, which couldn't be picked up on the black-and-white broadcast. The weather girl merely traced over the numbers in white chalk, which DID show up.