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James Charles Lehrer (/ ˈ l ɛər ə / LAIR-ə; [1] May 19, 1934 – January 23, 2020) was an American journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. [2] He was the executive editor and a news anchor for the PBS News Hour on PBS and was known for his role as a debate moderator during U.S. presidential election campaigns, moderating twelve presidential debates between 1988 and 2012.
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 receiver back into an approximation of the original image.
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.
This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service.
The highest-rated broadcast of all time is the final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983, with 60.2% of all households with television sets in the United States at that time watching the episode. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] Aside from Super Bowls, the most recent broadcast to receive a rating above 40 was the Seinfeld finale in 1998, with a 41.3.
This is a list of pre-World War II television stations of the 1920s and 1930s. Most of these experimental stations were located in Europe (notably in the United Kingdom , France , Germany , Italy , Poland , the Netherlands , and Russia ), Australia , Canada , and the United States .
Henry Leh, the founder of Leh's, was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1830. On April 25, 1850, he founded the store at 626 Hamilton Street in Allentown. He initially sold ready-to-wear clothes to what were then 4,000 citizens of Allentown, something that was then very rare in that part of the state.
Leh (/ ˈ l eɪ /) [2] is a city in Indian Union Territory of Ladakh Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir region. [3] It is the capital of Ladakh since medieval age. [4] Leh, located in the Leh district, was also the historical capital of the Kingdom of Ladakh.