Which Event Convinced Television Networks That There Was a Large

question 48

Multiple Choice

Which event convinced television networks that there was a large audience for televised news and led to the adoption of thirty-minute news programs?

• A) Stock Market Crash of 1929
• B) attack on Pearl Harbor
• C) outbreak of the Korean War
• D) Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate
• E) outbreak of the Vietnam War

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