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The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1946–47 season. Only NBC and DuMont had networks until CBS joined in May 1948, and coaxial cable connections were only available for a few cities on the East Coast. Most other parts of the United States created local shows or ...
Date Event Ref. March 4 The C. E. Hooper Company releases the first-ever American television ratings. [1] [page needed]April 3 The NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Shaw, is first telecast.
The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1949 through March 1950. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1948–49 season. This was the first season in which all four networks offered at least some prime time programming all seven nights of the week.
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.
The series is narrated by Kevin Spacey, well known at the time of production for playing fictional President Frank Underwood in the American version of House of Cards. After Spacey faced allegations of child sexual abuse, the narration was re-recorded by Spacey's House of Cards co-star Mahershala Ali. Netflix Canada still streamed the original ...
The White House includes six stories and 55,000 square feet (5,100 m 2) of floor space, 132 rooms and 35 bathrooms, 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, eight staircases, three elevators, five full-time chefs, a tennis court, a (single-lane) bowling alley, a movie theater (officially called the White House Family Theater [86]), a jogging ...
The Public Buildings Administration was asked to investigate the condition of the White House, but no action was taken until January 1948. After the commissioner of the Public Buildings Administration, which had responsibility for the White House, noticed the Blue Room chandelier swaying overhead during another crowded reception, he and the White House Architect conducted their own on-site ...
April 5, 1950 April 21 The Little Revue: ABC: September 4, 1949 May Adventure Playhouse: DuMont: April 1950 May 22 Newsweek Views the News: DuMont November 7, 1948 June 11 Mama Rosa: ABC May 21, 1950 June 14 Easy Aces: DuMont December 14, 1949 June 18 Windy City Jamboree: DuMont: March 19, 1950 June 23 Actors Studio: CBS September 26, 1948 June ...