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  Encyclopedia: 1949 in television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in BBC television programmes for children broadcast between 1946 and 1955.
Candid Camera is a long-running television series, created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially appeared on radio as Candid Microphone in the 1940s, then screened in the United States in the 1950s, with local versions produced around the world.
Arturo Sandoval (born November 6, 1949) is a jazz trumpeter and pianist.
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 1949 in television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1948 in television, other events of 1949, 1950 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
January 31 - The first Emmy Awards are presented and broadcast on television from Los Angeles.
December 17 - The Sutton Coldfield television transmitter is opened in the English Midlands, making it the first part of the UK outside London to receive BBC Television.
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 Guardian Century | 1940-1949 | Television starts again
When television reopens again today, the day before the Victory parade in London, it will be nearly seven years since it closed down at the outbreak of war, a much longer time than it was working up to September 1, 1939.
Television starts where it left off seven years ago, for it is admitted that war-time research has not found any great improvements that could be made immediately.
Television programmes came direct from some London theatres and many plays were produced in the studio.
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 GMHTV - Television Nostalgia - 1930-1949
The inventor of television, John Logie Baird was born in August 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland, Baird learned a Calvinist work ethic from his father, a Presbyterian minister.
Whether that was television or radio is beyond me. In 1931 the BBC Theatre and Chamber Orchestra was first transmitted on July 27th and December 18th respectively.
Television was back on air, resumed by the same Mickey Mouse cartoon that was last seen when the service was last on air six years before.
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 antique television sets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
rightly refer to their antique television sets as what they are.
Anxious as it might have been to market television sets, RCA recognized the risks associated with the premature...
The 9 means it was produced in or for the 1949 model year.
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By 1949, monochrome television had become a commercial success, 10 million sets had been sold, and programs were available to the general public.
A change to color television would only be licensed if the color broadcast signal could also be received as a monochrome signal on these sets.
RCA was the leading company in the television field, with CBS a distant second, but CBS advocated the field sequential color system which utilized rotating disk on which red, green and blue color filters are mounted.
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 1948 in television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1947 in television, other events of 1948, 1949 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
July 29 - The BBC Television Service begins its coverage of the Olympic Games in London by broadcasting the opening ceremony.
January 5 - Television Newsreel (UK) is first shown on the BBC Television Service (1948-1954).
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 Sid Caesar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sid Caesar (born Isaac Sidney Caesar on September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows.
Caesar was born in Yonkers, where his father ran a lunch counter where immigrant workers would gather.
By 1949 he entered the new medium of television, hosting The Admiral Broadway Review.
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 1950 in television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1949 in television, other events of 1950, 1951 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
February 23 - First televised report of general election results in the UK.
The number of homes in the US that own a television set reaches the one million mark.
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 TIME Magazine: History of Television Archive Collection
Television, last spring a Bell Telephone laboratory accomplishment, last week was a General Electric and Radio Corporation of America practical device.
Boston University's President Dr. Daniel L. Marsh warned that 'if the [television] craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons.'...Dispatches from other sections made it clear that TV was continuing its methodical overturn of long-established U.S. manners, morals and institutions.
The U.S. television audience is in the midst of the biggest stampede for the wide open spaces since the California gold rush.
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 50th Anniversary: Utah News from KSL-TV, Salt Lake City, Utah
That's why KSL Television and its parent company, Bonneville International Corporation, made it a priority over the past half century to "make a difference" in the community.
Television has the power to inform, educate, entertain, and influence the audience.
This long tradition of community service guarantees that in the future KSL Television will place the interests of the community and the audience ahead of short-term gain, fear of criticism, or other considerations.
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 1949 in television -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
January 22 - The first commercial television station west of the (A major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico) Mississippi River, KTLA, begins operation in (Click link for more info and facts about Hollywood, California) Hollywood, California.
First television broadcasts begin in (A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Cuba.
September 29 - BBC Television first broadcasts (Click link for more info and facts about Come Dancing) Come Dancing, a TV (Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom) ballroom dancing competition show (1949-1995).
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 Korean War Conference Papers
Television is also an activity outside of and independent of the programs, such that one can decide to spend the evening watching television without having any specific program in mind.
If by 1949 television was still very far from fulfilling its panoptic promise, that promise, nevertheless, remained the privileged criterion by which the medium would be measured.
Television could thus function as the site of "democracy" to the extent that "democracy"--representing what the most people had in common—was defined in opposition to "idiosyncrasy." Broadcasting nationalized the common person in every way that his or her values were common rather than unique, cliched rather than original, status quo rather than progressive.
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 1949 in television: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about 1949 in television
December 29 - KC2XAK[?] of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first ultrahigh frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
January 17 - The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, debuts.
January 13 - Brandon Tartikoff[?], television executive (+ 1997)
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 1949 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1949 is a common year starting on Saturday.
Iva Toguri D'Aquino is found guilty of broadcasting for Japan as "Tokyo Rose" during World War II.
January 13 - Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d.
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 television commercial invention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tube: The Invention of Television is technicial and historical in nature,...
Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and...
He broadcast the 1st television commercial in 1930, for which he was...
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 1946-1949
The time period after World War-II is considered the last and final birth of television.
Families had accumulated savings during the war years, and were eager to purchase homes, cars and other luxuries denied them during the war.
Television sets were soon added to the 'must have' list.
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 1949 RCA Victor Console Television - Antique Radio Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The paperwork that came with this TV suggests that it was delievered to someone in north Jersey in October 1949.
RCA had just come out with the 45RPM record about that time and I would guess it was easier or quicker to add one of their little changers then it was to engineer a whole new changer.
In RCA combinations (with or without TV) of 1949 it was either "The RCA system of recorded music" alone, or there was a 78 player in another drawer.
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 List of years in television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
1989 in television - The Simpsons and Seinfeld premiere
1953 in television - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is seen by approximately 20 million TV viewers in the United Kingdom.
On May 28, the first television station WGY begins broadcasting in Schenectady, New York.
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 1949   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
1946 1947 1948 - 1949 - 1950 1951 1952
January 13 - Brandon Tartikoff, television executive (d.
September 7 - Lee McGeorge Durrell author, television presenter, zookeeper
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 Vintage Ge Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
You should note that the size of the TV is given in inches - but this isn't the actual size of the entire television set.
If a television is advertised as 36 inch television, which means that the screen is 36 inches from one corner to the other diagonal corner.
Television DVD Collectibles - 50s vintage GE television TV cowgirl 1951 CUTE girl AD $ 9.99 Buy now: $ 14.99 Auction ends in 13.04.
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 McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
Modeled after the Mack V. Wright 1920 film version, the 1949 western television series The Lone Ranger made Clayton Moore’s masked character one of the most recognized in American popular culture.
This encyclopedia includes every actor and actress who had a regular role in a television western from 1949 through 1959.
The entries cite biographical and family details, accounts of how the player first broke into show business, and details of roles played, as well as opinions from the actors and their contemporaries.
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 Bill Hayes Online! Star of Stage, Screen, Television, Radio, Recording... and now the Internet!!!
When Uncle Miltie took his 13-week hiatus in the summer of 1949, he was replaced by Olsen and Johnson and their troop of stooges, vaudeville acts, clowns, singers, dancersÂ… and ME.
Cameras in 1949 were not mobile, did not have zoom capability, were really just barely out of the experimental phase.
Television was so new there was no union to demand five-minute breaks and fewer hours of sitting around and wasting time.
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 The Critical Eye | Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949-1993   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Television Cartoon Shows has all this save the episode listing, and throws in additional credits for such things as character design, music, background design, and editing.
The book opens with a broad history of television animation in the United States, then a brief introductory note.
The entries in the body of the encyclopedia itself are personal, wry, and generally relate a given show to what was happening in the world of TV animation at the time.
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 Chronomedia: 1949
November Shepherd’s Bush film studios in Lime Grove, West London are sold by Rank to the BBC for conversion into television studios, intended to replace Alexandra Palace, on which the BBC’s lease will expire in 1956, and prior to the construction of the Television Centre in nearby White City.
CATV (Community Antenna Television) is introduced to improve the service in areas of poor reception, using an antenna on the roof of the Astor Hotel and a transceiver to convert the signal from one frequency to another.
US has 98 television stations, of which 14 belong to the networks; revenues have increased four-fold in the past year to $34.3m, while expenditures have risen to 2½ times to $59.6m.
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 1949 Admiral Television Phonograph AD (Televisions) at Mississippi Pack Ratz
This is a full color 9 by 12 inch print area ad, featuring the great looking Admiral, first in television.
One out of every two Television Combinations sold is an Admiral.
This ad was scanned in a protective plastic cover, and may not show complete ad, due to scanner size.
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 Television Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If there is one more thing that US television can be proud of -it can, with all credibility, lay claim to having invented the most popular television formula of them all.
One of the first of these made the transition to television in 1949, having become something of a radio classic.
But the studios resisted television with all their might, feeling the tube would hurt film attendance (some studios even ordered their biggest stars not to do television).
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 Antique Television
Later I found an RCA schematic book with all of RCA's television schematics from '45 to '50 for $10.
I needed more information, so I visited Nutmeg Book Shop and found a couple of books from 1949 and 1950 on repairing TV's and radios.
No retrace lines are visible anymore, however I've read that modern transmissions include lots of data in the blanking pulses, and the old sets expect nothing there, so retrace lines are normal on old televisions except with home recordings.
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