C-SPAN to Produce and Air Series on First Ladies

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

C-SPAN will produce and air a two-year series profiling the
nation's First Ladies.

The series, in association with the White House Historical
Association, will debut Feb. 18, 2013 (President's Day), with Martha
Washington. Season one ends in June 2013 with Ida McKinley. Season two starts
in September 2013 with Edith Roosevelt and ends in Feb 2014 with Michelle
Obama. The series features First Ladies "over 44 administrations,"
which means through Obama.

C-SPAN producer Mark Farkas will executive produce. Advising
on the project will be Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian at George
Mason University; historian and Morgan State University Professor Emeritus
Roselyn Terborg-Penn, and White House historian and author William Seale (The President's House).

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.