Television

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This article is about the impact of television on society and entertainment in the 1960s. Through television, many political moments were witnessed, such as the first televised presidential debate, saw President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated, saw feed from Vietnam and saw the landing on the moon. Popular shows included Gunsmoke, Maverick, Bonanza, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Captain Kangaroo, The Flintstones and Mr. Rodgers.

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The AMC series Mad Men is about New York's advertising industry in the 1960s. The series comments on the social change taking place from the late '50s into the '60s.

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Reality television's popularity does not look like it is diminishing. Network executives and advertisers agree that the strongest and most original shows will survive. CBS's "Survivor", for instance, remains popular, although they will no longer be able to count on any me-too program succeeding. Reality TV is still far cheaper to make than drama. Advertisers like its younger audiences.