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Fred W. Friendly

Network Executive
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Fred W. Friendly

Network Executive

October 30, 1915

New York City, New York

March 3, 1998

Fred W. Friendly was the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now.

Murrow and Friendly broadcast a revealing See It Now documentary analysis on Senator Joseph McCarthy that has been credited with changing the public view of McCarthy and, being a key event leading to McCarthy's fall from power. It was an extension of the duo's continuing probe of the conflict between McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade and individual rights.

Friendly served as president of CBS News from 1964 to 1966.

It was Friendly who originated the concept of public-access television cable TV channels.

Fred W. Friendly was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1994.

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