TV pioneer, Frances Buss, 1917-2010

Starting out as a “femcee” (think Vanna White), Frances Buss Buch worked her way up at CBS to become the first woman director of any network. No small accomplishment in the 1940s. One of her many credits was the cooking show “To the Queen’s Taste” hosted by Dione Lucas (a pioneer in her own right, see ch. 2 of WWWE) which Buss both produced and directed. Here she marvels at the changes in TV over the last sixty years:

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