A Syndicated Show in a Network World: Frederic Ziv's Favorite Story

Across his career as one of the most successful producers o f syndicated radio and television programming, Frederic W. Ziv continually battled against network domination. Forced to operate under constraints that resulted from network monopolistic practices, Ziv had to devise ways to compete with network programming at a fraction of network budgets. An industrial analysis of how one of his radio shows, Favorite Story, tried to mirror network dramatic anthologies but at considerably lower expense illustrates how a syndicator could survive and thrive in a network world. The paper utilizes archival documents and an interview with Frederic Ziv as its primary sources.