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April 19, 1950 July 4 The Ed Wynn Show: CBS: September 22, 1949 August 11 People's Platform: CBS: August 17, 1948 September Frontier Theatre: DuMont: May September 29 The Hazel Scott Show: DuMont: July 3, 1950 September 29 Detective's Wife: CBS July 7, 1950 October 8 Think Fast: ABC: March 26, 1949 October 13 The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican ...
October 4 – Four Star Revue debuts on NBC (1950–1953). [4] October 5 – The comedy quiz show You Bet Your Life, featuring Groucho Marx, premieres (1950–1961). October 12 – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts (1950–1958). October 28 – The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, premieres (1950–1965).
Sales of TV sets rose tremendously in the 1950s and by 1950 4.4 million families in America had a television set. Americans devoted most of their free time to watching television broadcasts. People spent so much time watching TV, that movie attendance dropped and so did the number of radio listeners. [20]
Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film.
Our guide to streaming the winners of the Academy Awards' top prize, including 'All About Eve' and 'On the Waterfront.'
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 "Golden Age" of the Soviet media culture is usually associated with Khrushchev Thaw, which spanned from the mid-1950s until the end of 1960s. [55] [56] The live nature of television and relatively young age of the people involved in its development afforded certain level of exuberance, edginess, debate and criticism.
In September 1950 NBC added two live variety series, Four Star Revue and The Colgate Comedy Hour, to its fall schedule. These programs were a network effort to bring NBC's most popular radio stars to television; talent included Eddie Cantor , Jack Carson , Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis , Jimmy Durante , Danny Thomas , Ed Wynn , Bob Hope and Fred ...