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DuMont paid $1.3 million in 1953 for the rights to broadcast National Football League games in prime time; starting December 12, DuMont also broadcast a series of NBA basketball games, the first time pro basketball was seen regularly on network TV. Both DuMont and ABC "were especially aggressive in pursuit of sports broadcasts because they were ...
Date Event Ref. January 1 The Rose Parade was broadcast in NTSC color for the first time ever. The NBC broadcast, possibly one of the earliest color broadcasts in American television history, used a new mobile color television studio truck, and the program is carried across the continent on 21 television stations.
April 11, 1954: Piero Scotti after victory at the 1954 Coppa della Toscana. Italian driver Piero Scotti won the 1954 Coppa della Toscana sports car race in a Ferrari 375 MM. [25] In a general election in Belgium, the Christian Social Party won 95 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, and 49 of the 106 seats in the Senate. [26]
Fall 1954 marked a big change for television when ABC announced a network deal with a significant Hollywood producer. ABC had contracted with Walt Disney to produce a new series called Disneyland (as part of the deal, the network provided funding towards the construction of Walt's amusement park of the same name , opening in July 1955).
March 11 – The Public Defender on CBS (1954–1955) April 2 – The Grove Family, on BBC Television (1954–1957); generally considered the first British TV soap opera; April 8 – Justice on NBC (1954–1956) April 18 – The Martha Wright Show on ABC; April 26 – The Tony Martin Show on NBC; July 5 - Concerning Miss Marlowe on NBC.
WKST-TV: 45 ABC Now on channel 33 April 5 Flint, Michigan: WKNX-TV: 57 CBS (primary) ABC (secondary) Now NBC affiliate WEYI-TV on channel 25 Little Rock, Arkansas: KRTV: 17 CBS (primary) ABC/NBC/DuMont (secondary) April 7 Fort Lauderdale, Florida: WFTL-TV: 23 NBC April 9 Reading, Pennsylvania: WEEU-TV: 33 NBC April 12 Wichita Falls, Texas: KFDX ...
April 2. Hoyt Vandenberg, U.S. Air Force general (b. 1899) Maud Barger-Wallach, tennis player (b. 1870) April 8 – Fritzi Scheff, singer and actress (b. 1879 in Austria) April 19 – Russell Davenport, journalist and publisher (b. 1899) April 21 – Emil Post, mathematician and logician (b. 1897) April 29 – Joe May, film director (b. 1880 in ...
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