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October 16 – Blue Peter, the world's longest-running children's TV programme, debuts on BBC Television (1958–present) October 17 – An Evening With Fred Astaire on NBC; first show prerecorded on color videotape, wins nine Emmy Awards; November 4 – Flight (1958–1959) syndicated premiere on NBC NYC; produced by California National ...
It featured a mixture of modern reconstruction and original film footage. All of the original colour clips were taken from a film capturing the event, Campbell at Coniston by John Lomax, a local amateur filmmaker from Wallasey, England. Lomax's film won awards worldwide in the late 1960s for recording the final weeks of Campbell's life.
The 90-minute series Jazz Party aired from May 8 to December 25, 1958, on WNTA-TV Thursdays at 9pm ET and was offered to NTA Film Network affiliates; a successor to a similar program on the NYC DuMont station WABD, Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party, as the DuMont Network was ceasing operations.
It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball game was broadcast on television in color. WCBS-TV in New York City broadcast the Boston Braves beating the Brooklyn Dodgers by an 8-1 score.
KUED (channel 7), branded PBS Utah, is a PBS member television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.The station is owned by the University of Utah, and has studios at the Eccles Broadcast Center on Wasatch Drive in the northeastern section of Salt Lake City; its transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City.
An Evening with Fred Astaire, the first television presentation to be recorded on color videotape (as opposed to film), was broadcast live on NBC in the United States [80] as Astaire's first-ever appearance on live television. The one-hour show was critically acclaimed, with one commentator opining that "Mr. Astaire and his colleagues have set ...
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1958 were held 1–9 February in Bad Gastein, Salzburg, Austria. [1]Austrian Toni Sailer, 22, won three gold medals and a silver.The triple gold medalist from the 1956 Winter Olympics successfully defended three of his four world titles.
WXYZ-TV Action News remote van. The station first signed on the air on October 9, 1948, with 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of programming [2] as the second television station in ...