(WJAR) — NBC approached the Outlet about the possibility of creating an NBC affiliate in 1944. The first day on the air was on July 10, 1949. The TV station’s first broadcast was a Boston Red Sox game ...

On Sept. 5, 1949 the New York State Fair opened and with it came a marketing blitz for the new medium of television. “To those who dream of unlimited video sales here, the television end of the State ...

LATE in the evening of January 20, 1949, President Truman went home from the Inaugural Ball. In cities as far apart as Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Richmond, and Detroit, television receivers snapped ...

SAN DIEGO — KFMB TV is dedicated to telling San Diego's stories, but in 1949 our TV station was was the story and we made front page news. In this Zevely Zone, I visited the U.S.S. Midway Museum to ...

TELEVISION faces a critical year. Until now the question has been how last television, would develop; and all through 1948 the answer came that it would develop so fast that velocity itself would have ...

The 1949 book Television: Medium of the Future by Maurice Gorham correctly identifies, but dismisses, a concern about the visual age: voting with your eyes. Fears have been expressed lest this new ...

These Are My Children is a short-lived American television soap opera which ran on NBC from January 31, 1949 to February 25, 1949. The show was broadcast live from Chicago, Illinois, airing fifteen ...

In the spring of 1949, a headline appeared in the Lancaster New Era that declared, “Lancaster is Smallest City in U.S. with TV.” That announcement, printed atop a new part of the newspaper called the ...