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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.
September 18 – The Paul Winchell Show debuts on NBC with the title The Speidel Show. October 4 – Four Star Revue debuts on NBC (1950–1953). [4] October 5 – The comedy quiz show You Bet Your Life, featuring Groucho Marx, premieres (1950–1961). October 12 – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts (1950–1958).
The exact boundaries of the Golden Age are somewhat debated; producer David Susskind, in a 1960s roundtable discussion with leading 1950s television dramatists, defined television's Golden Age as 1938 to 1954, while The Television Industry: A Historical Dictionary says "the Golden Age opened with Kraft Television Theatre on May 7, 1947, and ...
Television portal; 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
Rank Program Network Rating 1: Texaco Star Theater: NBC: 61.6 2: Fireside Theatre: 52.6 3: Philco TV Playhouse: 45.3 4: Your Show of Shows: 42.6 5: The Colgate Comedy Hour
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The weekly show was proposed to be hosted by four comedians in a four-week rotation to provide competition for Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town on CBS. The first episode, starring Hans Conried, Rosemary DeCamp and Dick Foran, was written and produced by the then 22-year-old Peggy Webber, who appeared in over 100 episodes of Dragnet with Jack Webb.
The central gimmick of the show, praised by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as "the first interactive TV show", [3] was the use of a "magic drawing screen" — a piece of transparent vinyl plastic that stuck to the television screen by means of static electricity. A kit containing the screen and various Winky Dink crayons could be purchased for ...
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