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Now, for example, was the first program to show live shots of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific U 48 SAG-AFTRA | Winter 2013 | SAGAFTRA.org nion man Edward R. Murrow's famed news documentary series See It Now is perhaps one of the best depictions of the evolution of broadcast in the 20th century. Originally recorded as an album, I Can Hear It Now, the format moved into radio as Hear It Now, and then to television with the acclaimed series See It Now. Along the way, these programs made history. he live television broadcast of See It Ocean simultaneously on a split screen. "It occurred to us that, until the electronics of television, no man had ever been capable of gazing at both oceans at the same instant," Murrow and series co-producer Fred Friendly wrote in the foreword to the 1955 book See It Now: A Selection of Text and Pictures. "We thought that a medium capable of doing this was capable of providing reporters with an entirely new weapon in journalism." And they were right. Close to a year aſter See It Now aired in November 1951, AFRA — the American Federation of Radio Artists — merged with the Television Authority to create AFTRA. his merger not only brought together two mediums of broadcast — local and national radio and television — but it set the path for a powerful membership of broadcasters, including entertainers, newspersons, disc jockeys, radio personalities,