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  1962 in television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1961 in television, other events of 1962, 1963 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
September 1 - Channel Television, the ITV franchise for the Channel Islands, goes on air.
September 14 - Wales West and North Television (Teledu Cymru) goes on air to the North and West Wales region, extending ITV to the whole of the UK.
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 Reader's Companion to American History - -RADIO AND TELEVISION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Television constituted a revolutionary change from radio, but its introduction was not as chaotic as that of radio, for an institutional framework already existed.
Television in the 1960s was an agent both of conformity and of rebellion, providing some images that unified America and others that reflected, and sometimes exacerbated, the country's deep racial, class, and gender divisions.
And though television continues to provide viewers with common stories and scenes of events that help construct a sense of national unity, the ideology of television programming, especially the message that limitless consumerism is the most important freedom, has alarming political and cultural implications.
college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_073300_radioandtele.htm   (2079 words)

  
 Bonnie Hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Bonnie Lynn Hunt (born September 22, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and television producer.
Hunt was born in Chicago, Illinois, one of seven children.
In 2002, Hunt returned to television with Life with Bonnie; her role on that show earned her her first Emmy Award nomination in 2004.
www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bonnie_Hunt   (415 words)

  
 1961 in television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a result, key character Babby Dennis and her love interest are mysteriously written out of the show; the actors who played them did not want to move.
September 1 - Border Television, the ITV franchise for the English-Scottish Border and Isle of Man, goes on air.
September 30 - Grampian Television, the ITV franchise for North East Scotland, goes on air.
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 Television
The television stations of Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana encompassed the universal JRT programme in 1958, and later on the television stations of Sarajevo (1961), Skopje (1964), Titograd (1964-1966), Novi Sad (1973-1974) and Prishtina (1974-1975) joined in; gradually the programmes of the television stations of the Serbo-Croat speaking regions became predominant.
Television Belgrade and Serbian culture testified to their presence on the world scene by participating in the first satellite transmission of programmes from Europe to America, on July 23, 1962.
In the early years of Television Belgrade, the status of television as the presenter, importer and producer of films was not regulated, and the part which films held in the programme was smaller than in other television stations around the world.
www.suc.org /culture/history/Hist_Serb_Culture/chy/Television.html   (3031 words)

  
 Delayed Transmission
He began to see the need for an Irish television service that would be available to the whole country and play a part in preserving the island's culture.
The introduction of television, Savage said, was a critical moment in Ireland's transformation of the late '50s and early '60s.
Though the long struggle to establish Irish television may finally be over, Savage said, the industry faces looming challenges to its survival from the cable and satellite industries.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v5/Mr13/savage.html   (726 words)

  
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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.
www.johnmurray.org /tv97.htm   (12334 words)

  
 Kill Your Television-Jerry Mander
And the effects that large amounts of television viewing have on children and the onset of attention deficit disorder.
While watching television, the viewer is not seeing the world as it is. He or she is looking at a world created by advertising.
Television programs, commercials, news reports and talk shows are all designed toward blind acceptance by the viewer.
www.netreach.net /~kaufman/Jerry.Mander.html   (1368 words)

  
 The American Experience/Technology/Big Dream Small Screen/TV Milestones
Amidst the tumult, the first televised murder takes place as Jack Ruby guns down Lee Harvey Oswald as he is being transferred from the Dallas city jail.
Television programs attempt--gingerly--to reflect the influence of the civil rights movement in its portrayal of fl characters.
Television's international reach is undisputed as an estimated 720 million people around the globe tune-in to view the event live.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/technology/bigdream/milestones2.html   (1088 words)

  
 Peter Gumn
The television series was distinguished for its stylish and sophisticated lead character, Peter Gunn, and is also remembered for the jazz-influenced music of Henry Mancini.
The combination of the main character's smooth, stoic demeanor, together with Henry Mancini's outstanding jazz themes, worked to leave a lasting impression in the minds of fans.
Television's Private Eye: An Examination of Twenty Years Programming of a Particular Genre, 1949 to 1969.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/petergunn/petergunn.htm   (535 words)

  
 Reason: We All Know That TV Is Bad For Us: Or do we?
By 1961, when Minow pronounced his execrations on the boob tube, nearly 90 percent of U.S. living rooms were bathed in blue light each night.
The growing girth of the nation is blamed on it; increased violence; higher levels of teen sexual activity; and finally, we are assured, the idiot box is generally dumbing us all down.
Children today are watching slightly less television per day than they were a decade ago, even as they continue to pork up.
www.reason.com /rb/rb122904.shtml   (1040 words)

  
 The Quest for Public Television
Around the United States, not one public television station was broadcasting in September, 1951, when University of Wyoming President George (“Duke”) Humphrey initiated the filing for the first public television station in Wyoming.
The results indicated that television might not be as "affordable" as the Mallory report two years earlier had indicated.
In 1961, Humphrey appointed a University Television Committee, to be chaired by John Marvel, Dean of the College of Education, to explore available options, but also to counter Scottsbluff businessman Terry Carpenter’s request to designate Channel 8 for a commercial station in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
uwacadweb.uwyo.edu /RobertsHistory/Hyperlinks/PublicTV.htm   (7410 words)

  
 1960 in television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
See also: 1959 in television, other events of 1960, 1961 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
February 11 - Jack Paar walks off his TV show because his monologue had been edited the night before, in favor of a three minute news update.
In addition to being the first Presidential debates to be broadcast on television, the debates also marked the first time "split screen" images were used by a network.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1960_in_television   (370 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Box : An Oral History of Television, 1929-1961   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Those who contributed were there when the first televisions were invented, when TV shows were first developed and the performers became household names, and when others were fllisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Television's early years may not interest MTV and X-Files fans, but nostalgic fortysomethings--and teens who have discovered The Honeymooners and Lucille Ball on cable--will find fascinating behind-the-scenes details and a solid outline of television's technological, economic, and public-policy context in this enlightening oral history.
I've seen more television that any human probably should (this happens when you've worked in a museum dedicated to the stuff...) and I can safely say that this book is the real thing.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140252657?v=glance   (807 words)

  
 New Media Musings: Television Archives
"Television is a very straightforward, passive, linear medium," said Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC's entertainment group, who now oversees the development of a sprawling campus for Yahoo in Santa Monica, Calif., that will largely be devoted to creating original video programming for the Internet.
This do-it-for-ourselves paradigm is a crucial point to understand, as newspapers and television stations move to assimilate the world of the blogosphere.
Four years ago, Al Gore and I set out to transform television with a new network that empowers young adults by unleashing their creativity and enabling their dreams, passions, stories and opinions to be shared with their generational cohort.
www.newmediamusings.com /blog/television   (7548 words)

  
 Channel Television - Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
A proposal that television cameras be allowed in the House of Commons was defeated by one vote whilst in the islands John Rothwell and Roger Bowns joined Channel.
Channel Television begins a new ten year licence and is judged by the regulator to demonstrate "a strong performance" with a regional service which was of "high quality overall".
Channel Television’s documentary Murder in the Family is played across the whole of ITV in the prestigious Network First slot and attracts more than 5.6 million viewers.
www.channeltv.co.uk /channel/pressaug2002.html   (3868 words)

  
 Television in 1961
The Golden Age of television - hillbillies, beatniks, chimps and cowboys.
1961 was the first of five years of reruns.
The was the last of two seasons; this program returned in morning reruns on CBS from 1962-64.
www.tvparty.com /fall61.html   (1640 words)

  
 Wonder Years: TV in Its Precocious Youth
Author Jeff Kisseloff traces the growth of the most important mass medium from before its invention through the year 1961, when the lust for profit killed "live" prime-time entertainment and the Golden Age turned green.
Television would have replaced radio in the American home much sooner if not for an interruption known as World War II, during which no civilian electronics were produced.
So much light was required for the early attempts at television shows, recalls newswoman Betty Goodwin, that she got blistered cheeks from it.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR2005061000596_pf.html   (486 words)

  
 Moore, Mary Tyler
Her first on-camera television work was as a dancer, and it was as "Happy Hotpoint," a singing and dancing home appliance, that she first caught the public eye.
Though she lacked their experience in television comedy, Moore was no mere "straight woman" to comedians Van Dyke, Carl Reiner, Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie; she managed to stake out her own comic identity as a lovely and competent housewife who was frequently thrown a curve by her husband's unusual friends and career.
Thanks to the show's explorations of the Petries' courtship (they met while he was in the military and she a USO dancer), Moore was able to display her talents as both dancer and singer, as well as comedic actress, on the show.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/M/htmlM/mooremaryt/mooremaryt.htm   (964 words)

  
 More than a Vast Wasteland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Concerned parent groups still lobby for kinder and gentler cartoons, politicians still claim television is eroding the very fabric of society, and even technological innovations such as the V-chip (designed to automatically censor specific programs) are premised on the fear that television is doing something to us.
We have influenced the way television technology has advanced, we have influenced the way the sets have been designed, and we have influenced what is shown on those sets.
Far from just passively watching television, many people experience it as a dynamic part of their lives --a part that allows them to express themselves and to find others with similar interests.
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 MSN Encarta - Related Items - Broadcasting, Radio and Television
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As its potential audience "reach" expanded to more than 90 per cent of U.S. homes, the television industry in 1961 encountered mounting government criticism and inquiry, as well as threats of closer federal regulation.
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 FCLJ Vol 47 No. 2 - Minow
Those were the words I used to describe television in 1961, shortly after President Kennedy appointed me Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission).
Over four decades, I've served our government, public television, commercial broadcasting, advertising, telephone, publishing and cable companies; helped organize presidential debates; taught students who now are leaders in communications and law; and directed think tanks and foundations that deal with communications policy.
Policymakers in every country know that this is true from the example of American broadcast television, and all are working to make special provisions for children in their national communications policies.
www.law.indiana.edu /fclj/pubs/v47/no2/minow.html   (1847 words)

  
 1961 in television -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
For the (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American network television schedule, please see (Click link for more info and facts about 1961-62 American network television schedule) 1961-62 American network television schedule.
As a result, key character Babby Dennis and her love interest are mysteriously written out of the show; the (A theatrical performer) actors who played them did not want to move.
December 31 - (Click link for more info and facts about RTÉ) RTÉ starts television broadcasts, bringing television to (An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) Ireland for the first time.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1961_in_television.htm   (1315 words)

  
 WNET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
WNET (Thirteen/WNET) is an American television station licensed by the FCC to serve Newark, New Jersey.
In 1961, Channel 13's owner, Atlantic Television, sold the station to the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, a not for profit company, which converted Channel 13 to a non-commercial/educational station affiliated with the National Educational Television service.
From the time it was a commercial television station until it became an educational station on September 16, 1962, Channel 13 has also been assigned the WNDT and WNTA call letters.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/WNET.htm   (454 words)

  
 1961 - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
December 31 - The Marshall Plan expires after having distributed more than $12 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
December 31 - Ireland's first national television station, Teilifís Éireann, (later RTÉ) begins broadcasting.
August 14 - Susan Olsen, American television actress
open-encyclopedia.com /1961   (1920 words)

  
 GMHTV - Television Nostalgia - 1960-1969
In the world of advertising, in the days before cigarette advertising were banned on television because of the early signs of the dangers of smoking, we were told that you're never alone with a Strand.
And these were the days when not everyone had a television set; depending on the level of their local community spirit they would sit in a neighbour's house and watch it there.
Ideally Westward Television wanted the Channel Islands to be covered as part of their region, but besides this, the 1954 television act didn't cover the Channel Islands and so in later years this problem became quite marginal.
www.webspawner.com /users/asperger/1960s.html   (5582 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Gunsmoke was a long-running radio and television western.
The radio show ran 1952 - 1961, and the television show 1955-1975, so they were running concurrently for six years.
The show premiered in the fall of 1955 and ran through the spring of 1975, on the CBS television network.
www.askmytutor.co.uk /g/gu/gunsmoke.html   (235 words)

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