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The American Music Show is a weekly public access variety television program, produced from 1981 to 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia by Dick Richards, James Bond, Potsy Duncan, and Bud "Beebo" Lowry. [1] It aired on People TV and featured drag and musical performances, parodic sketch comedy , interviews, and reports from around Atlanta.
American music began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North America. With the colonization of America from European countries like France, Spain, Scotland, England, Ireland, and Wales came Christian choirs , musical notation , broadsides , as well as West African slaves.
Channel America – A commercial broadcast network which operated from 1988 to 1995; it was the first commercial television network whose affiliate body was intentionally made up of low-power stations, serving as a model for Pax and AIN/UATV, and a predecessor of America One and YTA TV.
American music chart television shows (1 C, 11 P) CMT (American TV channel) original programming (1 C, 32 P) L. Local music television shows in the United States (28 ...
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.
American Bandstand (AB) was an American music-performance and dance television program that aired regularly in various versions from 1952 to 1989. [1] It was hosted by Dick Clark from 1956 until its final season in 2002. Clark also served as the program's producer. [2] The show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music tracks introduced by Clark.
Following the Civil War, minstrel shows became the first distinctively American form of music expression. The minstrel show was an indigenous form of American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, usually performed by white people in blackface.
The first original production for Theater in America was of Enemies. [7] In 1974, WNET added The Great Performance, a series of classical concerts. [8] In 1976, Great Performances became the umbrella title and the music section was named Music in America. A third section, Dance In America, was also added.