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1947 In Television
The year 1947 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1947. __TOC__ Events *January 3 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time. *January 22 – The first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, begins operation in Hollywood. *January 29 – RCA company demonstrates an all-electronic color television system using live images, to the US Federal Communications Commission. *January 30 – The FCC rejects CBS' color television system. *February 10-March 11 – BBC television service in the UK is temporarily suspended due to a national fuel crisis. *March 11 – The first successful American children's television series, ''Small Fry Club (television program), Movies for Small Fry'' debuts on the DuMont Television Network, DuMont Network. *July 16 – RCA demonstrates the world's first all-electronic color camera to the Federal Communications Commission. (Only television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meet The Press
''Meet the Press'' is a weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. It is the longest-running program on American television, though the current format bears little resemblance to the debut episode on November 6, 1947. ''Meet the Press'' specializes in interviews with leaders in Washington, D.C., across the country, and around the world on issues of politics, economics, foreign policy, and other public affairs, along with panel discussions that provide opinions and analysis. In January 2021, production moved to NBC's bureau on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The longevity of ''Meet the Press'' is attributable in part to the fact that the program debuted during what was only the second official "network television season" for American television. It was the first live television network news program on which a sitting president of the United States appeared; this occurred on its broadcast on November 9, 1975, which featured Gerald Ford. The program has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLS-TV
WLS-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios on North State Street in the Chicago Loop, and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower. History WENR-TV (1948–1953) The station first signed on the air on September 17, 1948, as WENR-TV. It was the third television station to sign on in the Chicago market behind WGN-TV (channel 9), which debuted six months earlier in April, and WBKB (channel 4), which changed from an experimental station to a commercial operation in September 1946. As one of the original ABC-owned stations on channel 7, it was the second station to begin operations after New York City, and before Detroit, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The station's original call letters were taken from co-owned radio station WENR (890 AM), which served as an affiliate of the ABC Radio Netw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Merry-Go-Round
''Musical Merry-Go-Round'' is an NBC TV series which aired from July 25, 1947, to 1949. The series featured live music performances. Production history Each 30-minute episode was hosted by Jack Kilty, "who sat in front of the camera and played records." Little else is known about this early television series. ''Musical Merry-Go-Round'' was an early innovative and pioneering effort to do music video A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device ...s on TV. It was renamed from its predecessor, a groundbreaking series called ''Disc Magic''. Martin Block, the orchestra leader, hosted as one of the emcees presenting musical performances. See also * 1947-48 United States network television schedule (Thursdays at 8:30pm ET) * 1948-49 United States network television schedule (Fridays at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Baseball On NBC
''Major League Baseball on NBC'' is the de facto branding for weekly broadcasts of Major League Baseball (MLB) games that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on the NBC television network; and, as of 2022, as well as on its co-owned streaming service, Peacock. Major League Baseball games first aired on the network from to , including '' The NBC Game of the Week'', when CBS acquired the broadcast television rights. Games returned to the network in as part of The Baseball Network, a time-brokered package of broadcasts produced by Major League Baseball and split with ABC. After The Baseball Network folded after the 1995 season, NBC retained a smaller package through 2000, alternating rights to a package of postseason games with Fox (with NBC carrying the National League Championship Series and World Series in odd-numbered years, and the American League Championship Series and All-Star Game in even-numbered years). The Comcast SportsNet regional sports networks became par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Walter Compton News
''The Walter Compton News'' is an American television news series that aired from 1947 to 1948 on the DuMont Television Network Monday through Friday from 6:45 pm to 7 pm ET. Broadcast history ''The Walter Compton News'' premiered on DuMont station WTTG on June 16, 1947, then on the DuMont network on August 25, 1947, but was reportedly off the air by January 1948. This show had seasoned radio broadcaster and executive Walter Compton (1912-1959) reading news from a script with the occasional use of slides. Beginning on November 17, General Electric became a sponsor of ''The Walter Compton News''. In 1942, Compton had been host of ''Quiz of Two Cities'', aired by Mutual Radio on WOL-AM in Washington DC, and on WFBR in Baltimore. The program is notable for having been "the first news series on a television network to originate from Washington." Premiering in January 1948, ''Camera Headlines'' was a second attempt by DuMont to present a TV news program, this time using newsreel fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Kelvinator Kitchen
''In the Kelvinator Kitchen'' was an NBC Television Network series which aired from 21 May 1947 to 30 June 1948.Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1979). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present''. Ballantine Books. . P. 284. The series was a cooking show sponsored by Kelvinator, and the appliances used on the show were from that company. In her book ''Encyclopedia of Kitchen History'', Mary Ellen Snodgrass cited the program as "the first commercial network series and first televised cooking show on the air." Another cooking program, '' I Love to Eat'', was actually the first of its kind, having debuted on NBC on August 30, 1946. Alma Kitchell (1893-1996) was the host, and Ray Forrest the announcer, on this series. Each episode was 15 minutes long and aired Wednesdays at 8:30pm ET. The program originated in the studios of WNBT-TV. A review in the May 17, 1947, issue of the trade publication '' Billboard'' called the show "an unpretentious program with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Cole's Birthday Party
''King Cole's Birthday Party'' (also known as ''Birthday Party'') was an early American children's television series which aired on the DuMont Television Network. The program was broadcast from May 15, 1947, to June 23, 1949. Little is known about the series. Each 30-minute episode featured the real birthday of a child. The series was sponsored by the Jay Day Dress Company of New York.Bergmann, Ted and Ira Skutch (2002). ''The DuMont Television Network: What Happened?'' p. 23. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland. The program was first broadcast locally over DuMont's WABD in New York City. By early 1948, ''King Cole's Birthday Party'' was aired nationally on DuMont's chain of stations. Among the people to have hosted the program include Bill Slater and Ted Brown.Brooks, Tim and Earle Marsh (1985). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows 1946 to Present'' p. 98. Ballantine: New York. . George Schreck produced the show. The concept was revived from 1963-1966 as ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraft Television Theater
''Kraft Television Theatre'' is an American anthology drama television series running from 1947 to 1958. It began May 7, 1947 on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year. It first promoted MacLaren's Imperial Cheese, which was advertised nowhere else. In January 1948, it moved to 9pm on Wednesdays, continuing in that timeslot until 1958. Initially produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, the live hour-long series offered television plays with new stories and new characters each week, in addition to adaptations of such classics as ''A Christmas Carol'' and ''Alice in Wonderland''. The program was broadcast live from Studio 8-H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, currently the home of ''Saturday Night Live''. Beginning October 1953, ABC added a separate series (also titled ''Kraft Television Theatre''), created to promote Kraft's new Cheez Whiz product. This series ran for sixteen months, telecast on Thursday evenings at 9:30pm, until January 1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doorway To Fame
''Doorway to Fame'' is an American talent show broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from May 2, 1947, to July 11, 1949. Overview The series used early television scene-blending technology to project the performers into cleverly constructed miniature sets or backdrops.McNeil, Alex (1980). ''Total Television'' (4th ed.). New York: Penguin Books. . Although 20,000 performers appeared on the series, it is widely reported that, contrary to the show's name, very few of the contestants went on to become famous. The series was cancelled in 1949. Broadcast history The series was hosted by Johnny Olson,The December 11, 1948, issue of ''Billboard'' reported that Danton Walker was the master of ceremonies. who would go on to host the DuMont daytime variety show '' Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room'' from 1949 to 1952, and many other television series and game shows, including the Saturday morning children's show ''Kids and Company'' on DuMont from September 1951 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swift Home Service Club
''Swift Home Service Club'' is a 1947-1948 American television show, "credited with being the first sponsored daytime network TV show." Hosted by Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, it aired Monday through Friday at 1 p.m. ET. Broadcast history The show launched on NBC Television in May 1947, Mondays through Fridays at 1 p.m. ET. It started shortly after a previous show hosted by McCrary and Falkenburg, '' Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties'' which debuted on the NBC network on January 5, 1947, and aired Sunday evenings from 8:15pm to 8:30 p.m. ET. Format Described as "a new daytime TV show that blended the homemaker, fashion, and talk shows", ''The Swift Home Service Club'' featured homemaker tips and interviews, with topics such as interior decorating, kitchen ideas, and cooking. Audience participation contests with guest judges were also included. Personnel In addition to Falkenberg and McCrary, regulars on the program included Sandra Gahle, Martha Logan, and Helen Carroll and the Esco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juvenile Jury
''Juvenile Jury'' was an American children's game show that originally ran on NBC from April 3, 1947, to August 1, 1954. It was hosted by Jack Barry and featured a panel of children aged ten or less giving advice to solve the problems of other children. Celebrity guests appeared on the show, including Eddie Cantor, Red Skelton and Milton Berle. The show began in 1946 as a radio program on WOR in New York,"Radio: Juvenile Jury" ''Time magazine'', June 17, 1946. but then successfully made the transition to television. It continued to be broadcast as a radio program until 1953.Sies, Luther F. ''Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960.'' McFarland & Co. 2000. p. 301. Controversy In a 1953 episode, four-year-old panelist Michelle Fogel claimed that she was told the questions/"problems" the night before, and further claimed that her answer to the first problem was what "my mommy told me to say"; Barry then, and again several times during the remainder of the episode, tried to assure t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
