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The Alan Dale Show: 1948 1951 Dumont Amanda: 1948 1949 Dumont Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts: 1948 January 1, 1958 CBS The Bigelow Show: 1948 1949 Break the Bank: 1948 1957 ABC Cartoon Teletales: 1948 1950 ABC Celebrity Time: 1948 September 1952 CBS Child's World: 1948 1949 Club Seven: 1948 1951 ABC The Philco Television Playhouse: 1948 1955 ...
The 1948 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania becomes the first political convention to be telecast by the networks. July 30 The DuMont Television Network becomes the first network to televise professional wrestling in prime time. November Screen Gems was founded as the television subsidiary of Columbia Pictures Corporation.
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.
Television series which originated in the United States and began in the year 1948. Shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United States should be removed from this category.
The Morey Amsterdam Show: December 17, 1948 October 12, 1950 The Alan Dale Show: 1948 1951 Amanda: 1948 1949 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts: 1948 January 1, 1958 The Bigelow Show: 1948 1949 Break the Bank: 1948 1957 Cartoon Teletales: 1948 1950 Celebrity Time: 1948 September 1952 Child's World: 1948 1949 Club Seven: 1948 1951 The Philco ...
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 ...
Mary Kay and Johnny was the first program to show a couple sharing a bed, and the first series to show a woman's pregnancy on television: [5] Mary Kay became pregnant in 1948 and after unsuccessfully trying to hide her pregnancy, the producers wrote it into the show. On December 31, 1948, the Stearns' weeks-old son Christopher appeared on the ...
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 .