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1922: Charles Francis Jenkins' first public demonstration of television principles. A set of static photographic pictures is transmitted from Washington, D.C. to the Navy station NOF in Anacostia by telephone wire, and then wirelessly back to Washington; Philo Farnsworth first describes an image dissector tube, which uses cesium to produce images electronically, but will not produce a working ...
The first Golden Age of Television[1] is an era of television in the United States marked by its large number of live productions. The period is generally recognized as beginning in 1947 with the first episode of the drama anthology Kraft Television Theater [2] and ending in 1960 with the final episode of Playhouse 90 [3] (although a few Golden ...
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon participated in the first televised presidential debate in Washington, D.C. in 1960. The quality of American television underwent a marked decline in the late 1950s and early 1960s [79] as anthology series disappeared from the network schedules in favor of an oversaturation of westerns, rural and fantasy ...
History of television. Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a ...
List of years in American television. This article is part of a US culture series on the. Television of the. United States. American family watching TV in 1958. Timeline. Networks. History. Genres.
The following article consist of shows/programs that aired during the network era of American television from the early 1950s to the mid-late 1980s. [ 1 ] 1950s
September 30 – Hanna Barbera 's series The Flintstones debuts on ABC (1960 –1966). October 1 – NBC commences airings of The Shari Lewis Show and Popeye the Sailor (Both 1960 –1963) October 3 – Series The Andy Griffith Show premieres on CBS (1960 –1968). October 4 – Series Stagecoach West premieres on ABC (1960 –1961).
United States portal. 1950s portal. Television series which originated in the United States in the decade 1950s. i.e. in the years 1950 to 1959. Television shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United States should be removed from this category and its sub-categories. 1900s.