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HBO was the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network as well as the first television network intended for cable distribution on a regional or national basis; however, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980), as well ...
2 1960s. 3 1970s. 4 1980s. 5 ... The following article consist of shows/programs that aired during the network era of American television from the early 1950s to the ...
The quality of television in the United States would begin to recover in the mid-late 1960s with more experimental shows such as The Monkees [39] and He & She, [40] even as gimmick-driven sitcoms continued to dominate for a few years after [41] until the rural purge of the early 1970s.
The decade of the 1970s saw significant changes in television programming in both the United Kingdom and the United States.The trends included the decline of the "family sitcoms" and rural-oriented programs to more socially contemporary shows and "young, hip and urban" sitcoms in the United States and the permanent establishment of colour television in the United Kingdom.
Early television evolved from the network organization of radio in the early 1940s. Three of the four networks that rose to dominance, NBC, CBS, and ABC, were corporations that were based in the business center of New York City; the fourth was the Mutual Broadcasting System, a cooperative of radio stations that, though its member stations entered television individually, never had a ...
1980s: Connections made and missed. By the 1980s, dating reality shows were back in vogue. For the most part, the popular shows of the decade, like "Blind Date" and "Matchmaker," were similar in ...
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1970–71 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. [1] Rank Program Network Rating 1:
In the early 1960s, there was a short-lived wave of anthology series such as Moment of Fear, Dow Hour of Great Mysteries, Great Ghost Tales, and Tales of Mystery. [3] Comedic material influenced by the Universal Classic Monsters were introduced in 1964 with The Munsters which ran for two years.