TELEVISION faces a critical year. Until now the question has been how last television, would develop; and all through 1948 the answer came that it would develop so fast that velocity itself would have ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 1, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. KSL television began broadcasting on June 1, 1949, ...

On Sept. 5, 1949 the New York State Fair opened and with it came a marketing blitz for the new medium of television. “To those who dream of unlimited video sales here, the television end of the State ...

LATE in the evening of January 20, 1949, President Truman went home from the Inaugural Ball. In cities as far apart as Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Richmond, and Detroit, television receivers snapped ...

(WJAR) — NBC approached the Outlet about the possibility of creating an NBC affiliate in 1944. The first day on the air was on July 10, 1949. The TV station’s first broadcast was a Boston Red Sox game ...

SAN DIEGO — KFMB TV is dedicated to telling San Diego's stories, but in 1949 our TV station was was the story and we made front page news. In this Zevely Zone, I visited the U.S.S. Midway Museum to ...

The station now known as KDKA-TV, channel 2, out of in Pittsburgh, PA, went on the air on January 11, 1949, launching the first “networked” television broadcast. KDKA, which had been WDTV (W DuMont ...

On the first anniversary of The Buffalo Evening News' ownership of Channel 4, the possibilities of what was to come for this amazing new medium of television seemed endless. Readers felt as if they ...

A Woman to Remember is a soap opera which ran on the DuMont Television Network from February 21, 1949 to July 15, 1949. The show initially ran in daytime, but starting May 2, aired Monday through ...

In the spring of 1949, a headline appeared in the Lancaster New Era that declared, “Lancaster is Smallest City in U.S. with TV.” That announcement, printed atop a new part of the newspaper called the ...