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In September 1950 NBC added two live variety series, Four Star Revue and The Colgate Comedy Hour, to its fall schedule. These programs were a network effort to bring NBC's most popular radio stars to television; talent included Eddie Cantor , Jack Carson , Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis , Jimmy Durante , Danny Thomas , Ed Wynn , Bob Hope and Fred ...
Sales of TV sets rose tremendously in the 1950s and by 1950 4.4 million families in America had a television set. Americans devoted most of their free time to watching television broadcasts. People spent so much time watching TV, that movie attendance dropped and so did the number of radio listeners. [20]
October 4 – Four Star Revue debuts on NBC (1950–1953). [4] October 5 – The comedy quiz show You Bet Your Life, featuring Groucho Marx, premieres (1950–1961). October 12 – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts (1950–1958). October 28 – The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, premieres (1950–1965).
The crumbling and eventual death of the old DuMont Network meant the 1955–56 television season would be the first year in which the three major remaining U.S. television networks would be the only full-time commercial participants in prime time, a situation that was to remain for the next 31 years, until Fox entered prime time on Sunday ...
In the early 1950s, TV stations telecast a lot of movies from the 1930s and ’40s, with the unofficial rule that they would air only films that were at least 10 years old.
From 1956 to 1964, the Midlands originally had their own edition of TV Times listing ATV and ABC programmes. A separate listings magazine called TV World was published from 27 September 1964, with the innovative idea of splitting itself 50:50 with a second cover in the middle allowing for the magazine to be folded over to create both a weekend and a weekday section from one publication.
2000: America Online merges with Time Warner. While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time. While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate ...
Sixty years ago, an episode of a TV showed called 'Trackdown' told the story of a conman named Trump who wants to build a wall. 1950s TV show had villain named Trump who promised to save world by ...