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The America First Committee's membership peaked at 800,000 paying members in 450 chapters, and it popularized the slogan "America First". [3] While the America First Committee had a variety of supporters in the U.S., the movement was muddled with anti-Semitic and fascist rhetoric. [ 18 ]
May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (died 2013) May 17 - Frank Price, U.S. TV and film executive; May 20 - Betty DeGeneres, American LGBT rights activist; May 31 - Clint Eastwood, U.S. director and actor ; June 12 - Jim Nabors, U.S. actor, singer (The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) (died 2017)
Zworykin was put him in charge of television development for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) at its factories and laboratories in Camden, New Jersey. Zworykin's move to the RCA's Camden laboratories occurred in the spring of 1930. The difficult task of developing a transmitter could begin.
The America First Committee (AFC) was an American isolationist pressure group against the United States' entry into World War II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Launched in September 1940, it surpassed 800,000 members in 450 chapters at its peak. [ 3 ]
British television, like its American counterpart, began developing in the 1930s, with the BBC Television Service beginning regular broadcasts in 1936. The early British television drama borrowed a great deal from dramatic radio productions developed between the First and the Second World Wars.
The Academy Awards ceremony (the Oscars) is televised for the first time after previously being broadcast by radio, beginning in 1930. TV Guide is founded. The first "TV dinner" is made by C.A. Swanson & Sons. The first color television introduced in the United States of America.
Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.
Television series which originated in the United States in the decade 1930s. i.e. in the years 1930 to 1939. Television shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United States should be removed from this category and its sub-categories