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 1950 in television Information
February 23 - First televised report of general election results in the UK.
September 18 - First television broadcast station in Brazil, PRF-TV, São Paulo on channel 3.
September 30 - First BBC television broadcast from an aircraft.
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  Television 1950's
During the 1950's, television became the dominant mass media as people brought television into their homes in greater numbers of hours per week than ever before.
What was portrayed on television became accepted as fact.
People began to accept what was heard and seen on television because they were "eye witnesses" to events as never before (live TV, an uncontrolled event).
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  Television Quotes - The Quotations Page
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
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 War on Television
Television was, of course, in its infancy as a mass medium at the time and, as a consequence, the Korean conflict is not widely thought of as a televised war.
Nonetheless, in August 1950, a CBS television news announcer reported an infantry landing as it was in-progress, and the controversy caused by this possible security breach reflects conflicts that would long continue between military authorities waging war and television reporters covering that warfare.
Sensitivity to unfavorable television coverage was heightened at this time by the deaths of 230 U.S. Marine and 50 French peacekeepers in a bomb attack during operations in Beirut.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/W/htmlW/warontelevi/warontelevi.htm   (2275 words)

  
 Sitcom Evolution Since the 1950's
Television is an invention that has remained a source of information, entertainment and escape, since its invitation to the households of America.
To the audience, sitcoms were the glue that stuck them to the television, the baby-sitter of many children, and a constantly altering source of entertainment that closely followed the current trends of the Americans tuning in (Taflinger).
Many of these radio shows did not make it on television, because the audiences had trouble seeing characters on television that were burned in their minds as something else (Mitz 30).
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 1950 in television   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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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 Early television and television shows are explored by your friends at oldetimecooking.com.  Come join Chef Brad as ...
Early television and television shows are explored by your friends at oldetimecooking.com.
Television was introduced in the United States in the late forties and by the early fifties had become a household fixture.
There were few television broadcasting stations and they would typically begin broadcasting between six and ten in the morning and "sign-off" around nine or ten at night.
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 InfoTech at K-State: Cable TV and Internet
Television signals were received, and transported over twin lead antenna wire down to his store.
Each home or apartment resident had his or her own television antenna and the roofs of some large apartment complexes were beginning to resemble forests of TV antennas.
Cable television in a form similar to today was born when he wired Lansford using coaxial cable and commercially manufactured boosters.
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 FCC
The arrival of digital television ("DTV") this fall promises to be one of the most significant developments in television technology since the advent of color television in the 1950's.
Therefore, at the request of the television broadcast industry, the FCC sponsored an effort to investigate the possibility of significantly improving the technical quality of today's television system.
DTV is a new "over-the-air" digital television system that will be used by the nearly 1600 local broadcast television stations in the United States.
www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Factsheets/dtv9811.html   (2916 words)

  
 Civ 20th Century Timeline- 1950-1960
The television was invented in the early 1900’s but only became popular in the 1950’s.
Television is technically the system of sending and receiving pictures and sound by means of electrical signals transmitted through wires and optical fibers.
These signals are usually broadcast from a central source, a television station, to a reception device such as a television located in a living room.
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 GMHTV - Television Nostalgia - 1950-1959
The Queen had her first television broadcast in October, while the Queen’s first Christmas broadcast was televised for the first time on Christmas Day at 3 pm.
A former Attorney General, Sir Lionel Heald QC was appointed by Granada Television to investigate and he later reported that the allegations were “true in substance”, with his description of the briefings of contestants as “highly imprudent”.
BBC TELEVISION saw a change in music programmes when the last edition of the original OH BOY was broadcast on May 30th, (as sung by Buddy Holly who sadly in a plane crash in this year, aged just 22, so it must have ended as a tribute).
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 Television
Television has become the main source of entertainment for many people.
In 1939 at New York’s world fair, television was demonstrated with a speech by President Franklin Roosevelt.
There are ten different kinds of television shows which include sitcoms, reality shows, talk shows, game shows, dramas, sports, news, kids’ shows, westerns, and variety shows.
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 Understanding The Business Of Television
Television these days is an industry that is always seeking your attention.
One of the earliest would have been the separate Children's Television brand for children's programmes on the BBC Television Service in the late 1940's and early 1950's.
Independent Television News, or ITN, was the brand on the news bulletins of the early ITA services of the 1950's and 1960's.
www.xtvworld.com /tv/understandingtv/index.html   (850 words)

  
 CBS
New television series include "The Red Buttons Show" (premiering on October 14 and running on CBS through June 1954), "The Jackie Gleason Show" (debuting September 20 and having its last broadcast September 12, 1970) and "Life with Luigi" (premiering September 22 and airing until June 4, 1953).
The first sponsored television variety show is "Ford 50th Anniversary Program." It airs from 9:00 to 11:00 PM and the sponsor is the Ford Motor Company.
The first network radio and television editorial is broadcast when CBS President Dr. Frank Stanton takes to the airwaves to plea for open hearings by the U.S. Senate committee with respect to the censure resolution against Senator Joseph McCarthy.
www.cbs.com /specials/cbs_75/timeline/1950.shtml   (1785 words)

  
 FCC Releases Digital Television Consumer Bulletin
The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology today issued a Digital Television (DTV) Consumer Information Bulletin to provide consumers with more information on what promises to be one of the most significant developments in television technology since the advent of color television in the 1950's.
The Consumer Bulletin will provide consumers with information on the new DTV technology, its upcoming deployment, developments such as improvements in the compatibility between digital programming and the equipment used by broadcasters and cable operators, and the capabilities and features that are expected to be available in the new DTV sets.
Television stations will operate two channels during the transition: an existing analog channel as well as a new DTV channel.
www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/News_Releases/1998/nret8015.html   (3060 words)

  
 ON THIS DAY | 27 | 1950: Television crosses the Channel
The BBC has transmitted the first ever live television pictures across the Channel.
A two-hour programme was broadcast live from Calais in northern France to mark the centenary of the first message sent by submarine telegraph cable from England to France.
This first cross-channel television broadcast marked the centenary of the first cross-channel telegraph.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/27/newsid_3032000/3032714.stm   (568 words)

  
 Film History of the 1950s
1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
In early 1950, Western cowboy star Gene Autry was the first film star to announce his appearance in a sponsored TV series.
One positive side-effect of the growing influence of American television in the 50s was that it was becoming the proving ground for many aspiring directors.
www.filmsite.org /50sintro.html   (2330 words)

  
 Steve Allen . October 30 . 1980s . 1950 in television . 1985 in television   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After years in radio, Allen became the original host of The Tonight Show, from its first New York broadcast in 1953 in television 1953, up until 1957 in television 1957, when he was replaced by Jack Paar.
See also: 1949 in television, 1950 other events of 1950, 1951 in television and the list of years in television.
See also: 1984 in television, 1985 other events of 1985, 1986 in television and the list of years in television.
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 American History - 1950-1959
The ideal family, the ideal schools and neighborhoods, the world, were all seen in a way which had only partial basis in reality.
Television News Archive Television news history presented by Vanderbilt University.
Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1950, so women were joining men on golf courses all over America.
kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /decade50.html   (2972 words)

  
 Remembering Amos 'n' Andy
It was brought to television in the 1950's.
The television series was an all fl cast.
Then it was brought to television in the 1950's.
www.quazen.com /Arts/Television/Remembering-Amos-'n'-Andy.3106   (448 words)

  
 Study guide for Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (1950)
Here he portrays an America which by 1950 was already vanishing and would be quite unlike the background familiar to any probable astronaut young enough to be sent to Mars in the year 2000.
In 1950 tape recording on reels was brand-new cutting-edge technology (brought back from conquered Germany by GIs), so Bradbury has the Martians record their music in this futuristic fashion.
This story was omitted from the television version, probably partly because it would have been too expensive to produce; but also because it has no necessary connection with the other stories.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/martian_chronicles.html   (2408 words)

  
 ETF - Early Color TV
A wheel with segments of red, green, and blue rotated in front of the camera, while a similar wheel rotated in front of the television screen, synchronized to the one at the camera.
The first color television sets for this system were sold in 1954.
Later that year, 19 inch sets were made, and by 1955 all sets were made with a 21 inch picture tube.
www.earlytelevision.org /early_color.html   (427 words)

  
 Jazz . Timeline | PBS KIDS GO!
During the 1950's, Americans began to turn to television as their entertainment.
The Milton Berle television program helped to introduce America to Elvis Presley and his fresh, energetic sound.
With entertainment like television, movies and rock and roll, jazz faced new competition and shrinking audiences.
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 The 1950s
y 1950 Steve had established his credentials in Los Angeles as an ad-lib comedian with a show described as having an "anything-goes" structure.
Jayne, talented and popular actress of motion pictures, television and the Broadway stage, was born in Wu Chang, China, where her parents were Episcopalian missionaries for 14 years.
And some of television's top producers made the big leap with the helpful push from Steve: Dwight Hemion, Bill Harbach, the late Nick Vanoff, Dan Melnick, Leonard Stern, Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff, Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, to name a few.
www.steveallenonline.com /biography/the_1950s.htm   (651 words)

  
 iWannaGetThat - Retroville - 1950 - On Television - Truth or Consequences   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Creator Ralph Edwards acted as the emcee, and the show played on NBC in its original format for ten years before moving to television.
Already a favorite in many households, the show became an instant success on television.
The premiere aired on CBS with its original cast and its format left unchanged.
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 1950`s   (Site not responding. Last check: )
What was portrayed on television became accepted as normal.
People began to accept what was heard and seen on television because they were "eye witnesses" to events as never before (live TV).
It is too bad that it ended up producing such a wide variety of garbage and finding its level at the lowest level of our society.
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The power of television advertising not only revolutionized consumer spending, it changed the American political system.
As ad men realized the potential of television to shape public opinion, they marketed candidates in same fashion as any other product.
Cigarette ads, although now banned from television, were once a staple of television advertising.
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 Fifties Sixties Fashion, TV, Movies, Hair, Food, Cars, 50's 60's Facts and History about 1950's and 1960's - Clip Art ...
The dispatcher’s opening remarks to Officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed were a beckon to action on the streets of Los Angeles.....
Early Television and the Anthology Drama Anthology dramas were prominent among early television.
M Squad - A Forgotten Television Crime Series A number of fine television series from the 1950’s and 1960’s are now largely forgotten.
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 1951 in television at AllExperts
See also: 1950 in television, other events of 1951, 1952 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
*October 17 - Television broadcasts begin in Argentina from Primera Televisora Argentina on channel 7, Buenos Aires.
Kovacs pushes the limits of television technology with his use of camera tricks and special effects.
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 lil Janelle's Cross Dressing Page
Now we all know that what we saw on television was not the way it really was but for me it is the life I have chosen to live.
Some women actually did live close to the television style but none lived their life exactly like the housewife we all saw on television.
I however have chosen to live this lifestyle just to prove it could be done and experience the life of what a stereotypical 1950’s television housewife would have experienced if she was for real.
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