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October 29 – Sveriges Radio begins broadcasting TV in Sweden and apart from news and a weather forecast, the first Swedish TV programme is "En skål för televisionen" ("A Toast to Television") led by Lennart Hyland. For the first few months (until spring 1955), Swedish TV is broadcast one evening a week and for about an hour each time.
The 1954–55 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the ... news programs are gold and all others ...
DuMont's 1954–55 schedule would be the last year the failing television network planned a seven night program schedule, and even this schedule was full of holes. Heldenfels states that the 1954 DuMont schedule "was a checkerboard of programs and empty spaces for [local] stations to fill". [2]
National Educational Television launches as the nation's first non-commercial, educational broadcast television network. [6] September 11 Lee Ann Meriwether wins the Miss America 1955 Beauty Contest, which is broadcast on national television for the first time. About 27 million viewers watched the future television actress win the crown in the ...
Rank Program Network Rating 1: I Love Lucy: CBS: 49.3 2: The Jackie Gleason Show: 42.4 3: Dragnet: NBC: 42.1 4: You Bet Your Life: 41.0 5: The Toast of the Town: CBS: 39.6
These are the late night Monday-Friday schedules on all four networks for each calendar season beginning September 1954. All times are Eastern and Pacific. Two of the four networks began late-night schedules in 1954; DuMont aired its first and only show, The Ernie Kovacs Show , beginning in summer 1954, while NBC resumed late-night programming ...
The following is the 1953–54 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States.The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1953 through March 1954.
The crumbling and eventual death of the old DuMont Network meant the 1955–56 television season would be the first year in which the three major remaining U.S. television networks would be the only full-time commercial participants in prime time, a situation that was to remain for the next 31 years, until Fox entered prime time on Sunday ...