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May 11 – On May 11, 1926, AT&T centralized its radio operations into a new subsidiary known as the Broadcasting Company of America (BCA). [1] Although not widely known at the time, this was done in anticipation of selling the radio network, the result of a management decision that the radio operations were incompatible with the company's primary role as the leading U.S. supplier of telephone ...
Month Day Event January: 26: John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television system to transmit live, moving images with tone graduations, to 40 members of the Royal Institution.
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
NBC scored another big season, now with the top six shows on TV including “Seinfeld,” “Suddenly Susan,” “Friends,” “The Naked Truth” with Tea Leoni, and “Fired Up,” a midseason ...
Title Director Featured Cast Genre Note Bachelor Brides: William K. Howard: Rod La Rocque, Eulalie Jensen: Romantic comedy: PDC [1]: Bad Man's Bluff: Alan James: Jay Wilsey, Molly Malone
NBC later moved to No. 2 in the Nielsen ratings (behind only CBS) in 2021, [131] then reclaimed its status the top-rated network in 2022. [132] The 2022–23 season saw the series premieres of their new multi-camera comedies Lopez vs Lopez on November 4, 2022 [133] and the 2023 revival of Night Court on January 17, 2023. [134]
The following is an overview of 1926 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) [ edit ]
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005) A Good Woman (2004) The Gray Man (2007) The Great Gatsby (2000) Head in the Clouds (2004) Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) The Hours (2002) Leatherheads (2008) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) Max (2002) Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Monster ...