When TV producer Norman Lear died, The New York Times‘ obituary said there were “critics” who insisted the date “All in the Family” premiered on CBS in January 1971 represented a “day of infamy” in American broadcasting.
By contrast, for conservative television, 30 years ago this month, Dec. 6, 1993, was a welcomed day and one well worth remembering. Now, conservatives had their own TV channel.
That’s when National Empowerment Television started broadcasting live out of studios converted from office space on 2nd Street NE in Washington, D.C. Before there was the Fox News Channel, OAN or Newsmax TV, there was NET.
Little remembered now, NET started broadcasting when Roger Ailes was president of CNBC and a couple of years before Fox News debuted under his guidance.
Newsweek called NET “the first of its kind … an unabashedly ideological TV…
