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Television historians Harry Castleman and Walter Podrazik (1982) state, "Despite all the promises of programming reform made by television executives in May, 1961" (the month of Newton Minow's landmark speech "Television and the Public Interest"), "the 1962–63 schedule turned out to be business as usual".
Blockbusting was a business practice in the United States in which real estate agents and building developers convinced residents in a particular area to sell their property at below-market prices. This was achieved by fearmongering the homeowners, telling them that racial minorities would soon be moving into their neighborhoods.
The following is the 1961–62 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1961 through April 1962.
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1962–63 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. [1] Rank Program Network Rating 1:
September 19 – The Virginian on NBC, beginning a nine-year run, and is the first western to air in 90-minute installments (1962–1971) September 21 – Don't Call Me Charlie! on NBC (1962–1963) September 23 – Ensign O'Toole on NBC (1962–1963); The Jetsons on ABC, the first program to air in color on the network (1962–1963, 1984 ...
Date Event Ref. January 1 The 1962 Rose Bowl game on NBC is the first coast-to-coast live color television broadcast of a college football game in the United States.: NBC introduces the Laramie Peacock before the midnight showing of the day's episode of Laramie
Racial segregation in Atlanta has known many phases after the freeing of the slaves in 1865: a period of relative integration of businesses and residences; Jim Crow laws and official residential and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration from the late 1960s onwards.
Top-rated United States television programs of 1961–62 Top-rated United States television programs of 1962–63 A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy