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  Television Drama, French-Language
The first televised serials were usually adapted from novels or radio serials, their success being guaranteed by previous popular acclaim and their quality by the calibre of their authors.
While situation comedies and televised novels were marked by stage conventions, the historical and biographical miniseries together with serialised short stories received filmic treatments which subordinated dialogue to setting and heightened the spatial and temporal aspects of action.
In his televised novel "Les Girouettes" (1980-83), Jean Daigle presents a rural environment on the Richelieu River where a handicapped widow encounters a daughter who tries to establish order in a family threatened by a father's impetuosity and the demands of her 4 brothers: the plot is thin, if it does have interesting twists.
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 1958 in television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1957 in television, other events of 1958, 1959 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
August 30 - Southern Television, the ITV franchise for South Central and South East England, goes on air.
In the United Kingdom, the top-rated show of the year was the ITV game show Dotto, based on children's Join the Dots puzzles.
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 1957 in television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1956 in television, other events of 1957, 1958 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
In the UK, the "toddler's truce" (an arrangement whereby there were no TV broadcasts between 6 PM and 7 PM, to allow parents to put their children to bed) was abolished.
Front Page Challenge, television's longest continuously running panel show starts airing on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) for the next 38 years.
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Television broadcasting in the United States began on May 2nd 1941, when the Federal Communications Commission issued the first license for a commercial television station (W2XBS, NBC, Channel 1), which was to commence its licensed broadcasting on July 1st from the Empire State Building in New York City.
Despite this delay in the scientific study of television, one of the first topics of interest to researchers and public policy specialists was the issue of television violence.
Television dramas ought to reconfirm the reality that human behavior is complex, that motivations are many, and that the personal and social problems to be solved have many answers.
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 television
Television kept advancing as in 1945 RCA introduced the “image orthicon”, which was seen as an incredible improvement in television picture quality (10).
Television is under one of the ten bureaus within the commission.
Television stations are required to broadcast this when their license is about to expire.
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 1959 in television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
See also: 1958 in television, other events of 1959, 1960 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
January 26 - The science-fiction serial Quatermass and the Pit concludes on BBC Television in the UK with 11 million viewers for the final episode, a recent BBC record.
Hanna Barbera's first television cartoon, Huckleberry Hound premieres.
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 CZECH TELEVISION - History
A trial television broadcast from Studio Prague, based in the Měšťanská Beseda building in Vladislavova street, started on May 1, 1953, and on February 25, 1954 it was declared regular.
At first, television was only broadcast three days a week (in summer, only 2 days), in November 1953 the number of broadcast days was increased to four, in 1955 to six days a week, and on December 29, 1958 television started to broadcast programs all week long.
In the 1960s, construction was started on new television centers in Prague and Bratislava, and the government decided to create a second channel (government resolutions in 1965 and 1967).
www.czech-tv.cz /english/history/index.php   (403 words)

  
 Philco Model 4654 Predicta Television (1958)
Love it or hate it, the Philco Predicta television is unarguably one of the design icons of the 20th Century.
The 1958 line also included the Holiday, essentially the same TV in a low wooden tabletop cabinet.
Despite the radical styling that endears it to collectors, the Predicta had an unhappy history in the field, causing some to dub it the "Edsel of televisions." Quality control was poor, leading to an excessive number of returns and warranty service calls.
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 List of 'years in television' - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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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 1958 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
1955 1956 1957 - 1958 - 1959 1960 1961
1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
February 17 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television
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 Historical Television Website
On 30 September 1958, Independent Television (now abbreivated to ITV) finally reached the South of England in the guise of Southern Television which provided the new ITV service for Central Southern England (Hampshire, most of Dorset, parts of Surrey and Oxfordshire), with South-East England (Kent, Sussex) to follow in 1960 when the Dover transmitter opened.
Southern Television started its service using an old Southampton cinema (The Plaza) in the district of Northam as its main studio whilst a custom-built studio complex that was being built on land reclaimed from the River Itchen nearby.
Local television means local news which could quite possibly be virtually "on the studio's doorstep".
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Television, Pay (H. Correspondence re H. 9629 ["To amend the Communications Act of 1934, so as to prohibit the granting of authority to broadcast subscription television programs" (Joh V. Beamer - Indiana).
Television (S. 2119: "To expedite the utilization of television facilities in our public schools and schools and colleges, and in adult-training programs" (Warren G. Magnuson - Washington).
Correspondence re Civil Rights; 1958 national budget; Bricker Amendment; Bow Resolution; federal aid to education; check list; legislation to amend the U.S. Employees' Compensation Act to include chiropractic treatment in compensable injury case; leaflet; bills report out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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 SJSU Television in 1958
In fact until May 2000 we were the Theatre Arts Department and had been since 1974.
In 1958 we were the Speech and Drama Department and while radio had been a part of the department since 1948, television, as a course of instruction was very new.
1958 was still in its geek stages and for whatever reason, the geeks came, saw and conquered.
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 1958 in television -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Director (Click link for more info and facts about William Kotcheff) William Kotcheff is forced to improvise with his cast to carry on the play to its conclusion, with producer (Click link for more info and facts about Sydney Newman) Sydney Newman ordering him to "shoot it like a football match".
Television broadcasting begins in (A republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil)) Portugal.
October 16 - (A blue flag with a white square in the center indicates that the vessel is ready to sail) Blue Peter, the world's longest-running children's TV program, debuts on BBC Television (1958-present).
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 National Educational Television
National Educational Television (NET) was an educational television network in the USA from 1952 until 1969.
In 1958 National Educational Television headquarters moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan to New York City and more aggressive programming was undertaken to secure for NET the role of the USA's fourth television network (with CBS, NBC, and ABC).
In late 1970 NET and WNDT-TV completed their merger and the National Educational Television Network permanently signed off the air.
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 television.au THE LOGIES
The first awards were initiated by Melbourne-based TV publication TV WEEK in late 1958, only two years after the introduction of television in Australia.
The first voting coupons were published in TV WEEK in late 1958 with the first "TV Week Awards" held in early 1959 as a Melbourne-only event.
In 1961, ABC televised an edited coverage of the Logies presentation.
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 Antiques Ireland - Online Book Lists - Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
London: Odhams Press Limited, 1958 160 pp, 23 x 15 cm.
The story of the man who invented television.
Vol 3 Television Data pre - 1953 models cont.
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 Indiana University. Radio and Television, Department of. Chairman's Office. Records, 1937-1967
In 1953 the name was changed to the Department of Radio and Television.
The majority of the records were created in the period from 1945 to 1960.
The collection consists of one series: the administrative subject files of the Chair of the Department of Radio and Television.
www.indiana.edu /~libarch/Inst/104inst.html   (211 words)

  
 Television of the 1950s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The outcome was that the Television Bill became law at the end of July 1954 and the ITA service, transmitting from its station at Norwood, was inaugurated on 22 September 1954.
This is a short prologue to Independent Television's opening transmission from the Guildhall, outlining the origins of ITV's (and Associated Rediffusion's) good intent.
Description: Recalling some of the highlights of twenty-one years of television programmes - sport, entertainment and personalities from all walks of life, with glimpses from the record of history between 1936 and 1957.
www.pads.ahds.ac.uk /bfiTelevision1950Collection   (692 words)

  
 National Educational Television : NET
Originaly it was a limited service for exchanging and distributing educational programs produced by local television stations to other stations.
The programing was also noted for being dry and accademic, with little consideration given to entertainment value, in marked contrast to commercial television.
In 1958 National Educational Television headquarters was moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan to New York City, and more agressive programing was undertaken to secure for NET the role of the USA's fourth television network (with CBS, NBC, and ABC).
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 Film Synopsis
As the producer and star of "All the President's Men," the award-winning film which dramatized Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's journalistic investigation of Watergate, Redford is no stranger to social controversy.
To a post-war generation that was mesmerized by the promise of upward mobility and endless riches, quiz shows were an extension of the American dream.
By 1958, there were three dozen quiz shows on the air, accounting for 50 hours of network program time.
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 1958 In Television Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Afternoon Programmes Follow Shortly : What's On
And here is that very first logo, used until the slogan was dropped in 1964.
A standard Television South programme promo caption, here advertising the children's drama serial 'Follyfoot'.
The station is given a new ident symbol and is now known as 'Television South'.
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 RTE.ie Entertainment - The Smurfs head for the big screen
The film would be made in 3-D CGI in association with Nickelodeon Movies.
'The Smurfs' originated as a comic strip in Belgium in 1958.
There were 256 episodes of the show and it won a number of Emmy awards.
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 ipedia.com: 1958 in television Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
October 10 - Grandstand debuts on BBC Television.
October 16 - Blue Peter, the world's longest-running children's TV programme, debuts on BBC Television.
In the UK, the top-rated show of the year was the ITV game show Dotto, based on children's Join the Dots puzzles.
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 Amazon.com: Maria Callas - La Callas... Toujours (1958): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This fl-and-white televised recital (Callas's Paris debut) took place at the Paris Opera on December 19, 1958 when television was still in its infancy.
We might wish that it had happened earlier, when her voice was in better condition, or later, when video recording technology was more advanced--so that, for example, we would not have to take the narrator's word that Callas is wearing a red dress.
This Paris, 1958 debut is one of the most important, compelling, and satisfying.
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 Bulletin - Making of a media magnate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
1958: Southern Television Corporation Limited, owned by News Ltd, granted one of two commercial TV licences in Adelaide.
Following collapse of ITV Digital, BBC and Crown Castle join forces to bid for licence: Murdoch’s BSkyB is part of package, supplying programming and marketing expertise.
Makes second bid (unsuccessful in 2001) for Hughes Electronics' satellite television business DirecTV.
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 Television History - The First 75 Years
Once you are inside a major time period, you will find photographs of television sets from around the world, year-by-year links to important facts, magazine covers and advertising.
See examples of the world's first television sets, up to and including HDTV models.
Always looking for additional pictures of television sets or other items from collectors to post on this site.
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Below is a partial listing of the news bulletins and visions of Northern Television Systems Ltd. (WHTV).
WHTV is currently compiling a complete list of news bulletins and visions.
2001 - Q1 - Research into digital television, pay-per-view and view-on-demand cable systems.
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