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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
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.
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 ...
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).
Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948. [1] By 1989, 53 million U.S. households received cable television subscriptions, [2] with 60 percent of all U.S. households doing so in 1992. [3]
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 .
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