"I love television," Warhol once said. "It is the medium I'd most like to shine in. I'm really jealous of everybody who's got their own show on television. I want a show of my own." In 1979, the year he blew $40,000 on a broadcast-quality camera and employed the services of a TV professional, Don Munroe, he got one. Called simply Fashion, Warhol's first foray into broadcast television was a 10-part series focusing exclusively on the hollow-cheeked, high-gloss world of fashion. It was screened to a limited audience on Manhattan Cable, a New York-based public access channel which showed local sports matches and agreed to sell 30-minute slots to Warhol for around $75 a pop. According to Vincent Fremont - the show's producer and later vice-president of Andy Warhol Enterprises - it was the kind of channel "where they would sometimes miss the first ten minutes of your show if the local hockey match overran".
The telegraph
Sept 29 2008
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