Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous popular culture icons in the world; her spirit also extends to broadcast journalism.
Having been born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles and having passed on August 4, 1962 in Brentwood, which is a portion of Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe symbolizes modernization.
The Front Page is a Broadway play about journalism, adapted for film, radio and television.
Chicago is the setting for The Front Page; this city's former reporters Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur serve as writers of this comedy play.
Some of the masterminds of the first 3 film iterations of The Front Page are filmmakers being involved with Marilyn Monroe: Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks and Billy Wilder.
Unconfined to The Front Page, Chicago houses the Chicago School of Television, which countered the television scene of the East Coast, specifically New York.
NBC is a noted user of the Chicago School of Television.
Some trends of the Chicago School of Television include walking individuals, casual direct-to-viewer addresses and fluid and moving camerawork and the studio as a third-dimensional canvas.
Dave Garroway, a noted individual being involved in the Chicago School of Television, innovated the Chicago Style for his eponymous program Garroway at Large, plus Today (NBC).
For his own Garroway at Large television program, Dave Garroway defied television's early theatrical conventions for a more casual approach, in which the reality of the studio was acknowledged.
Using one camera, Dave Garroway walked around large studios and simple abstract sets as he directly talked to guests and television viewers for his eponymous Garroway at Large program.
Inside the RCA Exhibition Hall floor, portions of which were converted into the first studio location for Today (NBC), was a room evoking the large newspaper office of the East Coast.
Blending print journalism's industrial past (via the 50 Rock hub of the Associated Press) with electronic media's transparent future (via the RCA Exhibition Hall), the Today (NBC) bullpen is innovative.
Specifically, the blueprint being created by the borderless room being based inside the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway birthed modern broadcast design elements.
Noted elements of the boundless room being based in the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway include newsroom sets, street-side studios, news tickers and clock displays.
Just before Dave Garroway, television news featured anchors who delivered the day's stories in a studio resembling a claustrophobic box/theatrical and radio stage with journalists backstage in a bullpen.
However, Dave Garroway's innovations, including Garroway at Large and Today (NBC), tore down the walls, juxtaposing the main stage in the news studio with the backstage workspace bullpen.
Returning to radio, Dave Garroway was the first host of NBC's magazine program Monitor.
The first broadcast of NBC's Monitor radio program featured Dave Garroway's interview with Marilyn Monroe, who recently attended the premiere of The Seven Year Itch.
Staying with NBC's radio section in this 1950's decade, Marilyn Monroe recorded the Hollywood Star Playhouse for its episode Statement in Full.
WNBQ (now WMAQ-TV) is the main incubator/testing ground for the innovative and groundbreaking broadcast techniques of the Chicago School of Television.
By the mid-1950's period, the Chicago School of Television had started to fade, as television network production became a centralized duopoly between New York and Los Angeles.
The East Coast (New York) holds network corporate headquarters, prestige live dramas and hard news operations, drawing heavily from print journalism's industrial legacy.
As for the West Coast (Los Angeles), it uses the television industry's entertainment, variety and filmed sectors, capitalizing on.Hollywood's infrastructure and cinematic pool.
Even so, the DNA of the Chicago School of Television still survives; its casual delivery and open and borderless studio trends lead to national morning programs and 24-hour news channels.
In addition, Chicago also births William S. Paley, who famously ran NBC's top competitor CBS.
Marilyn Monroe made a rare television appearance as a noted guest on Person to Person, an interview program on CBS, hosted by Edward R. Murrow.
Edward R. Murrow is CBS' somber answer to NBC's inventive Dave Garroway.
NBC pioneered the format of using the newsroom as a regular studio feature (either as a backdrop or a centrepiece) on a national network basis, with CBS putting this on a local level.
What led local US stations to use the concept of a news studio set, featuring the newsroom as a regular backdrop, is competition from both the Eyewitness News and Action News formats.
Fred Harpman, a science fiction designer in Hollywood, is involved with his work on NBC's sci-fi spy television series Search and its 1972 pilot television film Probe.
Playing the main role in Search/Probe is Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lockwood.
Hugh O'Brian also appears in Marilyn Monroe's 1954 musical movie called There's No Business Like Show Business.
Search/Probe use the Probe Control Centre, a high-tech, NASA-like nerve centre.
The Probe Control Centre, which Fred Harpman had designed for Search/Probe on NBC, serves as the direct inspiration for his studio set design for this network called the NewsCentre.
Plus, Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design is based upon his nerve centre design being used in the 1966 science fiction adventure film Fantastic Voyage, for which he is assistant art director.
CMDF's nerve centre uses its high-tech and futuristic feel for Fantastic Voyage (1966).
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Fantastic Voyage (1966) stars Marilyn Monroe's Fox successor Raquel Welch.
Richard Fleischer also directed The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, which Marilyn Monroe planned but eventually declined to put in the title role.
Having its Hollywood sci-fi roots, Fred Harpman's cinematic NewsCentre studio set design served as a radical departure from the austere news set designs.
Marilyn Monroe's spirit, via her former co-star Hugh O'Brian, her Fox successor Raquel Welch and her planned director Richard Fleischer, also inspired Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design.
Using its hybrid newsroom-control room studio set design, BCTV fused together both the old and new guards of the local/regional television news industry across North America, influencing CNN.
For Ray Peters, BCTV's innovative hybrid newsroom-control room studio, which he co-conceived with Cameron Bell and Ernie Rose, paralelled the open area for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway.
Incidentally, Today (NBC) is the television program of which BCTV's Ray Peters was an avid viewer.
Upon its June 1, 1980 launch, CNN used its BCTV-inspired hybrid newsroom-control room studio set design, which serves as the DNA for 24-hour television news.
BCTV, incidentally, juxtaposed CBS (bullpen, Robert Wussler, Daniel Schorr, Bernard Shaw and Sam Zelman) with NBC (NewsCentre, Mary Alice Williams and Jim Kitchell), all used by CNN.
Especially, this BCTV/CNN layout is a print-style bullpen operating in a high-tech monitor matrix.
Modern 21st-century news sets do not leave the CBS, NBC and BCTV/CNN philosophies behind; they instead use digital technology to merge and evolve them into flexible ecosystems.
The hybrid BCTV/CNN newsroom-control room studio design is echoed by films and television.
Switching Channels, which is the modern 1980's film incarnation of The Front Page, echoes the hybrid newsroom-control room studio design by BCTV/CNN.
Pamela Anderson is Canada's modern answer to Marilyn Monroe, but also an iconic and world-famous import from British Columbia.
Whereas BCTV pioneered its hybrid newsroom-control room studio set that CNN popularized, Pamela Anderson became internationally famous through Playboy and Baywatch.
Just as Marilyn Monroe is the first Playboy cover girl/centrefold, Pamela Anderson is its most frequent cover star.
Dorothy Stratten is another Canadian answer to Marilyn Monroe, but a less known import from British Columbia than Pamela Anderson.
For Dorothy Stratten, her 1960 birth coincided with BCTV's launch, her 1980 death with CNN's.
Incidentally, Playboy puts Dorothy Stratten, Marilyn Monroe and Pamela Anderson on the map.
