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June 6: KFOR-TV (originally WKY-TV) Signs on the air as the first TV station in Oklahoma; July 1 WBRC Begins operations from Birmingham AL, just 1 month after WVTM started operations. August 29: WOWT (originally WOW-TV) Signs on the air for the first time, becoming the first television station in Nebraska, and one of the first in the Midwest.
Notable debuts during the season included The Plainclothesman with its unusual camera work, the popular The Lone Ranger (which is one of the few 1940s television series to be given a DVD release), The Ed Wynn Show (a short-lived series featuring popular performers as guests and the first variety show from the West Coast), and the unsuccessful ...
March 7, 1949 July 15 A Woman to Remember: DuMont: February 21, 1949 July 15 Your Show Time: NBC January 21, 1949 July 23 Television Screen Magazine: NBC November 17, 1946 August 3 The Growing Paynes: DuMont October 20, 1948 August 23 Talent Jackpot: DuMont July 13, 1949 August 27 Stand By for Crime: ABC: January 11, 1949 August 30 Wesley: CBS ...
The comedy-variety show — originally broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 — became the biggest show on TV when “Mr. Television,” Milton Berle, became the permanent host in its second ...
The 1948 episodes of the Berle show are missing, but many of the 1949 episodes still exist. A short-lived series, The Laytons , was the first network television sitcom to feature an African-American in a regular supporting role, albeit a stereotypical one.
Television series which originated in the United States and began in the year 1949. Shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United States should be removed from this category.
Although television was still in its infancy, several notable series debuted during this season, particularly Mary Kay and Johnny (first sitcom to be broadcast on network television in the US, and likely the world's second television sitcom after British series Pinwright's Progress), Texaco Star Theatre (the variety show that made Milton Berle ...
The first, on June 24, 1949, was the Hopalong Cassidy show, at first edited from the 66 films made by William Boyd. A great many B-movie Westerns were aired on TV as time fillers, starring actors like: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, John Wayne, Lash LaRue, Buster Crabbe, Bob Steele, Johnny Mack Brown, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard and