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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.
This is a list of the longest-running U.S. broadcast network television series, ordered by the number of broadcast seasons.. To qualify for this list, the programming must originate in North America, be shown on a United States national (not regional) television network, and be first-run (as opposed to a repackaging of previously aired material or material released in other media).
Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.
Longest-running religious television program to broadcast in color. 68 years 68 The Open Mind: Syndicated [m] May 1956 [8] present Longest-running public television program. 68 years 64 NFL on CBS: CBS September 30, 1956 January 23, 1994 6,133 [citation needed] CBS originally broadcast NFL games from 1956 to its merger with the AFL in 1970.
Walt Disney and his brother Roy contacted Goldenson at the end of 1953 [48] for ABC to agree to finance part of the Disneyland project in exchange for producing a television program for the network. [49] [50] [51] Walt wanted ABC to invest $500,000 and accrued a guarantee of $4.5 million in additional loans, a third of the budget intended for ...
1748 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1748th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 748th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1748, the ...
List of longest-running Indian television series; List of longest-running Philippine television series; List of longest-running Spanish television series; List of longest-running UK television programmes; Lists of longest-running U.S. shows by broadcast type: List of longest-running U.S. broadcast network television series; List of longest ...