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May 21 – Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits a 441-line video signal, with a bandwidth of 2.7 MHz, by coaxial cable from New York to Philadelphia and back. June – W2XBS in New York ( NBC ) covers the Republican National Convention from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania for 33 hours, during a five-day period.
February 3, 1940 March 30, 1940 NBC NBC News with Lowell Thomas: February 21, 1940 July 30, 1940 NBC The Esso Television Reporter: March 27, 1940 May 31, 1940 NBC Boxing from Jamaica Arena: July 8, 1940 May 18, 1942 NBC
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
John Warnock, American computer scientist and businessman (d. 2023) October 7 – Bruce Vento, American educator and politician (d. 2000) October 9. Gordon J. Humphrey, American politician; Joe Pepitone, American baseball player and coach (d. 2023) October 13 – Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist (d. 2022) October 16. Barry Corbin, American ...
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NBC's Today hosted by Dave Garroway established the modern format of the morning news show. The late-night talk show began in 1950 with short-lived efforts from Jerry Lester ( Broadway Open House ) and Faye Emerson ; Tonight would prove more enduring under the successive hosting runs of Steve Allen (1954–57), Ernie Kovacs (1956–57) and Jack ...
Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... 1940s American television series endings (6 C) 0–9. 1940 in American television (1 ...
The Pacific (miniseries) episodes (10 P) Pages in category "Television episodes set in the 1940s" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.