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Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 72 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running United States television serie
During that period, stations began local news programs in the midday and 5:00 p.m. time slots, while morning newscasts began to become common during the 1980s (first on weekdays, with weekend morning newscasts launching in many cities beginning in the early 1990s).
A television set, also called a television receiver, television, TV set, TV, or telly, is a device that combines a tuner, display, and speakers for the purpose of viewing television. Introduced in the late 1920s in mechanical form, television sets became a popular consumer product after World War II in electronic form, using cathode ray tubes .
KGTO-TV: 36 NBC February 23 Morgantown, West Virginia: WNPB: 24 NET Later became part of the West Virginia Public Broadcasting television network March 3 Bloomington, Indiana: WTIU: 30 NET April 14 Eureka, California: KEET: 13 NET June 8 St. Louis, Missouri: KDNL-TV: 30 Independent now an ABC affiliate July 14 Huntington, West Virginia: WVPB-TV ...
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 ...
All the latest buzz in the world of movies and TV can be found here. ... The Today Show 6 months ago 9-year-old floors ‘America's Got Talent’ judges with cover of Tina Turner classic ...
August 14 – Roman Polanski goes on TV to give his take on the Tate-LaBianca murders. August 18 – CBS pits Merv Griffin against Johnny Carson in the late-night talk-show arena – Carson wins. September 1 – TV Globo launches its first news and current-affairs program, Jornal Nacional, running Monday through Saturday.
Lowell Thomas hosted the first-ever, regularly scheduled news broadcast on American television in March 1940; it was a simulcast of his nightly 6:45 PM NBC network radio newscast, with the television broadcast seen only in New York City over what was then experimental TV station W2XBS. [1] The television simulcast lasted for only a few months.