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When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
True West was born to satisfy the readers' hunger for Old West history. True West was the largest Western magazine on the market in the 1960s, selling hundreds of thousands of copies monthly at newsstands. The magazine benefited from an era featuring popular television western series such as Bonanza, The Lone Ranger, and Gunsmoke.
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
From 1997 to 2000, Sport ' s editorial team launched numerous innovative platforms, including the Heroes of Sport (honoring athletes and their humanitarian efforts), Bargains and Bandits (An annual list of the best and worst contract deals in sports) and Dominators and Abominators of Sport (The best and worst of athletics), which was an annual ...
Pages in category "Television shows based on magazines" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
Western Extreme; Whacked Out Sports; The White Shadow (CBS, 1978–1981) Who's No. 1? (ESPN, 2004) A Whole New Ballgame; Wide World of Sports (Australian TV series) (Nine Network: First from 1981 to 1999, then again from 2008–present) Wide World of Sports (U.S. TV series) (ABC, 1961–1998) Wild World of Spike (Spike, 2007) Wimp 2 Warrior
A list of publications devoted to television (i.e. series, programming, scheduling, celebrities, gossip, etc.). This would include entertainment and trade publications whose features include extensive sections about the television industry in general and magazines with ties to a certain television series or genre.