Stanley Siegel: Television's Most Controversial Shock Banterman
- February 29, 2008 13:04:09
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Throughout the early 1970s, veteran TV personality and interviewer Stanley Siegel confronted with issues that affected daytime TV fans and their beneficiaries alike. Siegel was the loudmouth banterman of
the television syndication airwaves, with thousands of half-hour shows
distribution to a number of network-affiliated and independent stations across the United States and Canada. His long-running, nationally syndicated 30-minute talk show featured a variety of guests speaking out on an array of issues and themes concerning various conflicts of
controversy, from female impersonators and martial arts to politics and popular culture and so much more.
The Stanley Siegel Show began broadcasting over one of the CBS Television Stations O&Os; in 1968 and stayed on top of the local Nielsen ratings for eight years. KCBS-TV telecast TSSS for eight seasons before shifting to WABC-TV in the mid-1970s.
Whether Siegel gets one of the guests involved in a stunt involving a
bathtub filled with gelatine dessert or perform a death-defying martial
arts attrack on two of his most fiercest guests , viewers caught him asking guests many big questions affecting me and my fellow SodaHeads.
As TV's most controversial daytime TV shock talk personality, Siegel,
a California native, was the most prolific electronic media host ever to
speak out on diverse conspiracies. At the start of each half-hour program, Siegel starts the show with an opening monologue depicting
the various conflicts of social controversy facing TSSS viewers.
Over the years, Siegel has tackled the toughest, bizarre issues and themes of hardball controversy in a hilarious and conspirative form.
Following his tenure as emcee of The Stanley Siegel Show, Stanley Siegel would go on to preside over a defunct Monday-through-Friday
series, which debuted in the mid-1980s on cable television's female- oriented general entertainment network Lifetime, a Disney-ABC Television Group/Hearst Corporation partnership.
Why should SodaHeads believe in the power of Stanley Siegel?
For former Stanley Siegel Show viewers, Siegel was the embodiment
of daytime TV shock talk, taking no prisoners when it came to interviewing a diverse roster of guests bantering on issues
such as racism, music, sports, the government, military interrogation,
conservative and liberal power politics and many, many more themes
and conspiracies discussed in a satirically controversial manner.
To me, Stanley Siegel continues to be my favorite fearless TV shock
talk leader - and has long been interviewing his guests in front of a live
studio audience for years to come and in the coming years ahead.
the television syndication airwaves, with thousands of half-hour shows
distribution to a number of network-affiliated and independent stations across the United States and Canada. His long-running, nationally syndicated 30-minute talk show featured a variety of guests speaking out on an array of issues and themes concerning various conflicts of
controversy, from female impersonators and martial arts to politics and popular culture and so much more.
The Stanley Siegel Show began broadcasting over one of the CBS Television Stations O&Os; in 1968 and stayed on top of the local Nielsen ratings for eight years. KCBS-TV telecast TSSS for eight seasons before shifting to WABC-TV in the mid-1970s.
Whether Siegel gets one of the guests involved in a stunt involving a
bathtub filled with gelatine dessert or perform a death-defying martial
arts attrack on two of his most fiercest guests , viewers caught him asking guests many big questions affecting me and my fellow SodaHeads.
As TV's most controversial daytime TV shock talk personality, Siegel,
a California native, was the most prolific electronic media host ever to
speak out on diverse conspiracies. At the start of each half-hour program, Siegel starts the show with an opening monologue depicting
the various conflicts of social controversy facing TSSS viewers.
Over the years, Siegel has tackled the toughest, bizarre issues and themes of hardball controversy in a hilarious and conspirative form.
Following his tenure as emcee of The Stanley Siegel Show, Stanley Siegel would go on to preside over a defunct Monday-through-Friday
series, which debuted in the mid-1980s on cable television's female- oriented general entertainment network Lifetime, a Disney-ABC Television Group/Hearst Corporation partnership.
Why should SodaHeads believe in the power of Stanley Siegel?
For former Stanley Siegel Show viewers, Siegel was the embodiment
of daytime TV shock talk, taking no prisoners when it came to interviewing a diverse roster of guests bantering on issues
such as racism, music, sports, the government, military interrogation,
conservative and liberal power politics and many, many more themes
and conspiracies discussed in a satirically controversial manner.
To me, Stanley Siegel continues to be my favorite fearless TV shock
talk leader - and has long been interviewing his guests in front of a live
studio audience for years to come and in the coming years ahead.
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Glad to hear Stanley's doing well. CAERASTEVE said Mr. Siegal's involved with him, and his show. I don't know how old that post was, but, is the show still on the air - and, if so, where?
that was emceed by the great Stanley Siegel. I have posted a full episode online
on http://www.youtube.com/watch, so you better watch Mr. Siegel before it's too late.