Bleier Center staff have built an archive of video and audio interviews with many of the key personalities responsible for the creation and development of American television.
At present, more that 110 network executives, broadcast journalists and producers, directors and stars from the entertainment world have participated in the project by offering their own special perspectives on the birth of the medium. They include:
David Adams
Edie Adams
Steve Allen
Bob Banner
Erik Barnouw
Jack Beck
Richard Block
Ken Burns
Ward Chamberlain
Peggy Charren
Joel Chaseman
Lionel Chetwynd
Dick Clark
Joan Ganz Cooney
Robert Costello
Judy Crichton
Michael Dann
Jerry Danzig
James Day
Louis Dorfsman
Mike Douglas
Margaret Drain
Robert Drew
Corydan Dunham
David Fanning
Norman Felton
Robert Finkel
Sonny Fox
Reuven Frank
David Fuchs
Marty Glickman
Leonard Goldenson
Julian Goodman
Walter Grauman
William Greaves
Larry Grossman
Susan Harris
David Hartman
Paul Henning
George Herman
Neil Hickey
Jay Iselin
David Ives
Gene Jankowski
John Johnson
Lamont Johnson
Marvin Josephson
Robert Justman
Hal Kanter
Marvin Kitman
Jack Klugman
William Kobin
Jack Kuney
Gerald Leider
Ernest Leiser
David Levy
Dick Lewis
William Link
Norman Lloyd
James Loper
Elmer Lower
Abby Mann
Delbert Mann
Gordon Manning
Jon Mantley
Martin Manulus
Robert Markell
Michael Marmer
E.G. Marshall
Jay McMullen
Jerry McNeely
Sig Mickelson
Stan Moger
Earle K. Moore
Henry Morgenthau
Bob Newhart
Edwin Newman
Shad Northshield
Betsy Palmer
Alvin H. Perlmutter
Dan Petrie
David Pressman
Robert Richter
Thomas R. Rogers
Al Ruben
Stanley Rubin
Marlene Sanders
George Schaefer
Robert Schiller
Alfred Schneider
Reese Schonfeld
Sherwood Schwartz
Andrew Schwartzman
Sanford Scolow
Irwin Segelstein
John Sharnik
David Shaw
Morton Silverstein
Ed Simmons
Ira Skutch
William Small
Howard K. Smith
Rod Steiger
Maxine Stewart
Paul Talbot
Frank Tarloff
Robert Trout
Sander Vanocur
Gore Vidal
Richard C. Wald
Richard C. Wald
Eli Wallach
Al Wasserman
Pat Weaver
Joseph Wershba
Av Westin
Betty White
Jack White
Jack Willis
Ethel Winant
Paul Junger Witt
Perry Wolff