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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.
Date Event Ref. 2 The 67th Annual Grammy Awards airs on CBS with streaming on Paramount+ from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. [25]4 Ending a six-year-long blackout, Comcast and sports channel Altitude announce a carriage agreement that adds the Denver-based Altitude, TV home of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche and NBA's Denver Nuggets, to a higher-priced "sports and entertainment" tier of Comcast ...
John Carpenter's 1978 horror film Halloween made its broadcast network television premiere on NBC (the same day that its first sequel was released in theaters and the day before star Donald Pleasence guest-hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live).
These Are My Children is an American television soap opera, or novella, that ran on NBC from January 31 to March 4, 1949. [1] The show was broadcast live from WNBQ [2] in Chicago, Illinois, airing 15 minutes a day, five days a week, at 5 p.m. EST. It is widely credited as the first soap opera broadcast on television.
October 25 – The Rolling Stones make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show; the next day, Sullivan insists that he'll never have them back. November 26 – Pakistan Television Corporation airs the first television broadcasts in Pakistan. December 6 – NBC in the United States debuts the Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
In Miami, WTVJ moves to NBC from CBS, WCIX (now WFOR-TV) moves to CBS from Fox, and WSVN moves to Fox from NBC. Meanwhile, in West Palm Beach, WPEC switches from ABC to CBS, WTVX leaves CBS to become an independent, and ABC station WPBF signs on this day. The swaps result from NBC's acquisition of WTVJ in 1987, and CBS's acquisition of WCIX in ...
Date Event January 1 VH1 begins in the United States.: January 4 Sesame Street broadcasts its 2,000th episode.: January 7 During an appearance on ABC's Good Morning America, actor Yul Brynner, who was suffering from terminal lung cancer, mentioned his wish to make a public service announcement to be run after his death to tell others to not smoke.
With CBS taking over as the NBA's network television partner, this would mark the last time that ABC would broadcast an NBA Finals for 30 years. May 17 – U.S. daytime television is interrupted by the Watergate hearings, which would continue until August 7. Each network airs coverage in rotation every third day (ABC is first, then CBS and NBC).