''In the Kelvinator Kitchen'' was an
NBC Television Network
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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
Kelvinator was an American home appliance manufacturer and a line of domestic refrigerators that was the namesake of the company. Although as a company it is now defunct, the name still exists as a brand name owned by Electrolux AB. It takes its ...
,
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
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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 sustained commercial impact."
Episode status
No footage of the show is known to survive.
A description of the show appears in the August 30, 1947, issue of ''
The New Yorker
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'' magazine. In the article, Robert Rice chronicles one week of TV set owner Harry Dubin's viewing when TV was still a relative novelty, with fewer than 200,000 TV sets in use throughout the country.
See also
*
1947-48 United States network television schedule
References
External links
''In the Kelvinator Kitchen'' at IMDB
1947 American television series debuts
1948 American television series endings
NBC original programming
Lost television shows
English-language television shows
Black-and-white American television shows
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