12 Secrets You Didn’t Know About The Dukes of Hazzard

CBS Really Didn’t Like the Show

American broadcast network executive William S. Paley (1901 – 1990) (left), President of CBS radio and founder of CBS television, and network executive Dr. Frank Stanton, President of CBS, examine and adjust a color CBS television camera, probably on the set of a television studio, 1951. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) source

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Even after being a top 10 tv series in the ‘80s, it’s been said that CBS chairman William Paley never really liked the show. Maybe it was due to the shows southern humor or the lack of ‘sophistication’ but America loved it and Mr. Paley was just a rotten old man stuck in the past.

He would repeatedly describe the show as ‘lousy’ even after the show reached tremendous fame.

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