4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (761+ words) Sock it to me! Variety hour “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” debuted as a TV special on NBC in 1967. This resulted in the development of a weekly series which launched four months later and quickly became the No. 1 show on television. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (755+ words) Television Known as the first detective-themed scripted drama, “Martin Kane, Private Eye,” based on a radio series, debuted on NBC in 1949. Produced live, four different actors (William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Tracy, and Mark Stevens) played Martin Kane, and a…...

2+ week, 6+ min ago   (347+ words) Television Happy 50! CBS sitcom “Alice,” based on the 1974 theatrical “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” opened in 1976. It ran for nine seasons. Michael Jackson’s “Bad” video premiered on CBS in 1987. CGI-animated series “Father of the Pride” starring the voices of John…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (719+ words) Television “Ivan the Terrible,” the Moscow-set comedy that parodied American attitudes towards the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, debuted on CBS in 1976. The sitcom, which starred Lou Jacobi and Christopher Hewitt, lasted only five weeks. “Games…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1087+ words) Retail trading has changed dramatically over the past decade. What once required a desktop terminal, several spreadsheets, and a fair amount of manual calculation can now be handled from a smartphone in seconds. The real transformation, however, is happening behind…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (543+ words) That discipline of thinking, holistic, relational, and anticipatory, is a general framework for understanding complexity. Modern IT systems demand exactly the same framework. An enterprise network is an interdependent architecture in which a misconfigured switch, an undersized access point, or…...