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1980: First broadcast of Berlin Alexanderplatz, Magnum PI, Nightline, BBC Children in Need, Vruć vetar, The Kids of Degrassi Street, Strumpet City and Yes Minister; Cable News Network (CNN) and The Learning Channel (TLC) are launched. The first color television introduced in Bangladesh, Burma, Gibraltar and South Korea.
This category has the following 93 subcategories, out of 93 total. Animated television series debuts by year (70 C) Television series debuts by country and year (107 C)
- What Was The Very First Television Show?
- When Did Regular Programming Begin?
- What Was The First Sitcom?
- When Were ABC, CBS, & NBC established?
- What Were The First Kids' Shows?
- What Was The First Cartoon For Television?
- What Was The First Made-For-Tv Movie?
- When Was Cable invented?
- What Was The First 24-Hour News Network?
- What Were The First Home Video Endeavors?
In the experimental days of television, the very first full-length program broadcast in the US was a drama in one act called The Queen's Messengerby J. Harley Manners. The WGY radio station in Schenectady, New York first aired the drama on September 11, 1928. Gruff, grainy, and intended for screens no larger than a postage stamp, The Queen's Messan...
In the United States, popular culture paints the 1930s as a decade of radio listening, and it's true that many families gathered around to hear President Roosevelt's fireside chats. Although, NBC had fifteen hours of programming a week by 1939, this "regular program schedule," as described by Hutchinson in Here is Television, seems thin compared to...
According to the Guinness World Records, the first sitcom in the history of television was Pinwright's Progress (1946-1947) in the UK, which starred James Hayter as J Pinwright. The United States followed in 1947 with Mary Kay and Johnny, starring Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns. Sitcoms and drama programs that aired in the years proceeding I Love Lucy...
ABC was established as an independent entity in 1943, but it existed in other forms before that. CBS was established in 1927, and NBC was founded by RCA (Radio Corporation of America) in 1926, technically making it the first of the major networks to exist. There were other networks that are now defunct, most notably DuMont, which ceased operations ...
The BBC can take credit for the first televised children's programming. Their Children's Hour in 1946 came from their radio show of the same name, which had been on the air since 1922. Kukla, Fran, and Ollie began in the US in 1947 as a puppet show for children. The same year brought Howdy Doody, the famous puppet that entertained little ones with ...
Crusader Rabbit (1950-1957)was the first animated series that was made for TV. It was created by Alexander Anderson and Jay Ward. Anderson was the nephew of Paul Terry, a competitor of Disney animation. He and Ward ran into some lawsuits with Crusader Rabbit, but they also created Rocky and Bullwinkle, two iconic characters of the toon world. Inter...
Though film had been an established practice for quite some time before the advent of television, films made specifically for television would not manifest until the 1960s. Several live productions intended only for television were broadcast and recorded via kinescope, but the made-for-TV movie is thought to have originated alongside NBC's Saturday...
Cable had its beginnings in 1948 when Oregon, Arkansas, and Pennsylvania sought to improve remote regions' television signals with the use of antennas. The first pay television channel did not launch until 1972, and it was HBO, Home Box Office. RELATED: 10 Best TV Shows Like HBO Max's Hacks With this development came the implementation of satellite...
Today, audiences enjoy—or are perhaps beleaguered by—constant access to breaking news. However, in the 1960s and 1970s, this wasn't the case, as most stations dedicated no more than an hour to national news per day. That changed in 1980 when CNN became the first news network to offer 24/7 coverage of news and current events. The network would see a...
Like cable, home video was a field to pioneer in the 1970s. Though the 1950s brought the Quadruplex and the 1960s offered helical scan and open reel tapes, the 70s saw the distribution of the first videocassettes, and Sony coined the short-lived Betamax tapes. Obsolete media fans wouldn't want to forget LaserDisc endeavors such as MCA DiscoVision. ...
Apr 7, 2011 · The first public demonstration of television in the UK took place in 1926. Trace the development of TV from then up to the 2010s with our timeline.
2003 in British television – Panorama becomes the first ongoing British television programme to reach its 50th anniversary since BBC Wimbledon in 1977, The Boat Race in 1988 and BBC Cricket in 1989 and ITV screens the controversial Martin Bashir documentary Living with Michael Jackson.
Oct 19, 2024 · It was the first series to be shot on the two main stages at the council-owned Bottle Yard Studios' TBY2 facility in Hengrove, which opened in 2022 and is at the centre of protests about its...
Oct 18, 2022 · The BBC was the first broadcaster to provide a regular ‘high-definition’ television service, but the outbreak of war in 1939 put an abrupt stop to the output of drama, sport, and cartoons.
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