80s... The beginning of the era of glasnost and democratization. The first teleconferences with the USA, the demonstration of “shelf” films, the birth of new programs, the emergence of new presenters. I wanted to watch everything. The author of the book, the legend of domestic journalism Leonid Petrovich Kravchenko, was the head of USSR television at that time. He considers these years, although difficult, to be the happiest and most interesting of his life. After all, he had a historical mission - to lead the difficult process of establishing a new live TV. He talks fascinatingly in his book about defeats and victories, about what was left behind the television screen, about the behind-the-scenes struggle for television airtime between the two main political figures of the perestroika decade - Gorbachev and Yeltsin.