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The 1947 World Series is watched by an estimated 3.9 million people (many watching in bars and other public places), becoming television's first mass audience. October 5 – The first telecast of a presidential address from the White House .
The first successful American children's television series, Movies for Small Fry debuts on the DuMont Television Network. July 16 RCA demonstrates the world's first all-electronic color camera to the Federal Communications Commission. (Only television receivers were present at the demonstration on January 29; the camera was at a remote studio.)
The early days of television introduced hour-long anthology drama series, many of which received critical acclaim. [6] [7] Examples include Kraft Television Theatre (debuted May 7, 1947), The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (debuted September 27, 1948), Television Playhouse (debuted December 4, 1947), The Philco Television Playhouse (debuted October 3, 1948), Westinghouse Studio One (debuted November 7 ...
The 1947–48 United States network television schedule was nominally from September 1947 to March 1948, but scheduling ideas were still being worked out and did not follow modern standards. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1946–47 season .
On this day in economic and business history ... The Nikkei 225 began its calculations on Sept. 7, 1950, with its "birthday" retroactively backdated to May 16, 1949. On its first day in action ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 13 Rue Madeleine: Henry Hathaway: James Cagney, Richard Conte, Annabella: Thriller: 20th Century Fox: Adventure Island: Sam Newfield: Rhonda Fleming, Rory Calhoun, Paul Kelly
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 years-long road that led to last week’s “SNL50” events was more than a complex programming campaign for NBCUniversal. It was a test of the company’s pipes. The Feb. 14 “SNL50: The ...