Immigrant Representation in Broadcasting

"The Goldbergs," written and produced by actress Gertrude Berg, was a domestic comedy featuring the home life of a Jewish family in the Bronx. The program was broadcast on radio from 1929 to 1946,

On television, "The Goldbergs" was broadcast from 1949 to 1956 on three different networks in succession, and finally syndicated.

The sitcom "Life with Luigi" centered on the experiences of a newly arrived Italian immigrant in Chicago. The CBS program began on radio in 1948, and lasted until 1953.

A live television version aired beginning in 1952, but was short-lived. The show was pulled because of pressure from the Italian-American community

"I Remember Mama" was a weekly comedy-drama series that ran from 1949 to 1957 on CBS and told the ongoing story of a immigrant Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s.