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October 2 The DuMont network telecasts the first-ever television network soap opera, Faraway Hill. December 24 WABD broadcasts the first-ever televised church service from Grace Episcopal Church in New York City.
The 1946–47 United States network television schedule was nominally from September 1946 to March 1947, but scheduling ideas were still being worked out and did not follow modern standards. This was the first "network television season" in the United States, and only NBC and DuMont operated networks.
February 4 – RCA demonstrates an all-electronic color television system. February 18 – The first Washington, D.C. – New York City telecast through AT&T corporation's coaxial cable, in which General Dwight Eisenhower places a wreath at the base of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial and others make brief speeches, is termed a success by engineers, although Time magazine calls it "as ...
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 ...
On February 28, 2006, Faraway Hill was featured in a clue on the television game show Jeopardy!. The $200 clue in the category "'S'-ential Knowledge" was "Broadcast on the Dumont Network in 1946, Faraway Hill is considered the first TV show in this daytime genre", with the answer being "What is a soap opera". [10]
Friends was such a huge phenomenon at this point that they got a special post-Super Bowl episode with oodles of A-list guest stars, including Julia Roberts as Chandler’s old classmate Susie Moss ...
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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 ...