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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]
It was closed down after 15 months on the air and was left without an official TV station until 1962. March 28 – WKAQ-TV became the first television station in Puerto Rico. April – The American Broadcasting Company broadcasts the Army-McCarthy hearings live and in their entirety. May 1 WAPA-TV becomes the second television station in Puerto ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).
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.
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1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.