Background
Buch grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri, and attended Washington University.
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Frances Buch
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Washington University in Saint Louis.
Career
In the early 1940s she relocated to New York City, where she had taken acting classes and appeared in some off-Broadway productions. In July 1941 she was hired by Columbia Broadcasting System for a temporary job as receptionist. She transferred to the fledgling Columbia Broadcasting System Television two weeks after the Federal Communications Commission allowed commercial television broadcasts in 1941.
With Gil Fates as producer and host, she was scorekeeper on Columbia Broadcasting System Television Quiz the earliest United States. live television game show.
"I had seen television at the World"s Fair, but I had no idea this existed in New New York Columbia Broadcasting System was a radio network," Buch told a reporter from the Asheville Citizen-Times in 2008.
Along with Columbia Broadcasting System Television Quiz, she helped coordinate the Columbia Broadcasting System television news coverage of the attack on Pearl Harbor. When Columbia Broadcasting System live television broadcasts were suspended in 1942, Buch began producing and directing United States. Navy training films.
She returned to Columbia Broadcasting System in 1944 when their live television broadcasts resumed and was promoted to director in 1945.
On June 25, 1951, she directed the commercials on Premiere, the first commercial color television program to be broadcast in the United States. Later that same week she began the job of producer-director for the first two color television series to be broadcast, The World is Yours, and Modern Homemakers. She also directed the early television talk show, Mike and Buff (1951–1953), which featured Mike Wallace and his then-wife Buff Cobb.
She resigned from Columbia Broadcasting System in 1954 to be a full-time homemaker.
