1948 in television

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The year 1948 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1948.

Events[edit]

  • (undated) - The Ziv Company creates Ziv Television Programs as a subsidiary specializing in the production of original television programs for syndication.[1]
  • February 9 - WLWT, Cincinnati, Ohio, begins commercial broadcasting, changing its call letters from experimental station W8XCT.[2]
  • March 4 - First American television ratings are released by C. E. Hooper.[3][4]
  • March 20 – Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the U.S. in a program featuring the works of Richard Wagner.
  • April 3 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is played on television in its entirety for the first time in a concert featuring Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw.
  • May 3 – The first network nightly newscast, CBS Television News, debuts on CBS with Douglas Edwards as journalist.
  • June 21 - The first network telecasts of political conventions from Philadelphia.
  • July 29 – The BBC Television Service begins its coverage of the 1948 Olympic Games in London by broadcasting the opening ceremony. From now until the closing ceremony on August 14 the BBC will broadcast an average three and a half hours a day of live coverage from the games, using a special coaxial cable linking the main venue at Wembley Stadium to the television service's base at Alexandra Palace. This is the most ambitious sustained outside broadcast yet attempted by the BBC and is completed without serious problems.
  • August 25 – First-ever congressional hearing is televised: "Confrontation Day" between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
  • November 4 - Moscow TV facility adopted a new 625 line PAL television standard.
  • November 25 - The earliest known national telecast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is broadcast by CBS.
  • November 29
  • December 18 — WDSU TV channel 6, NBC affiliate, Becomes the first station in the Deep South in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • CBS begins network programming.
  • ABC establishes its first television station in New York.
  • Television manufacturing begins in Canada.
  • Telecasts of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, begin until 1954.
  • The number of homes in the U.S. that own a television set reaches one million.

Debuts[edit]

Television programs[edit]

Series Debut Ended Network
The Original Amateur Hour January 18, 1948 September 27, 1970 CBS
Court of Current Issues February 9, 1948 June 26, 1951 Dumont
Stop Me If You've Heard This One March 4, 1948 April 22, 1949 NBC
Author Meets the Critics April 1948 October 10, 1954 NBC
Hollywood Screen Test April 15, 1948 1953 ABC
Texaco Star Theater June 8, 1948 1953 NBC
The Ed Sullivan Show June 20, 1948 June 6, 1971 CBS
Candid Camera August 10, 1948 2014 ABC
CBS Evening News August 15, 1948
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 CBS
Foodini the Great August 23, 1948 June 23, 1951 CBS
Actors Studio September 1948 June 1950 ABC
Champagne and Orchids September 6, 1948 January 10, 1949 Dumont
Ford Theatre October 17, 1948 July 10, 1957 NBC
The Growing Paynes October 20, 1948 August 3, 1949 Dumont
The Adventures of Oky Doky November 4, 1948 May 26, 1949 Dumont
The Morey Amsterdam Show December 17, 1948 October 12, 1950 CBS
The Alan Dale Show 1948 1951 Dumont
Amanda 1948 1949 Dumont
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts 1948 January 1, 1958 CBS
The Bigelow Show 1948 1949
Break the Bank 1948 1957 ABC
Cartoon Teletales 1948 1950 ABC
Celebrity Time 1948 September 1952 CBS
Child's World 1948 1949
Club Seven 1948 1951 ABC
The Philco Television Playhouse 1948 1955 NBC
Winner Take All 1948 1952 CBS

Programs ending during 1948[edit]

Date Show Debut
June 30 In the Kelvinator Kitchen 1947
Unknown Eye Witness
The World in Your Home 1944

Births[edit]

Television debuts[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Newcomb, Horace (2014). "Ziv Television Programs, Inc.". Encyclopedia of Television. Routledge. pp. 2626–2627. ISBN 9781135194796. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  2. ^ "Cincinnati's T-Day Observed Feb. 15" (PDF). Broadcasting. February 23, 1948. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
  3. ^ (8 March 1948). [www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1948/1948-03-08-BC.pdf TV 'Amateur Hour' Gets 46.8 Rating], Broadcasting, p. 42
  4. ^ Von Schilling, Jim. The Magic Window: American Television, 1939-53, p. 100 (2013)
  5. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (2015). Short-Lived Television Series, 1948-1978: Thirty Years of More Than 1,000 Flops. McFarland. p. 5. ISBN 9781476605159. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  6. ^ "ABC TV Network" (PDF). Broadcasting. April 19, 1948. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  7. ^ "WTVR (TV) to Start April 22, Channel 6" (PDF). Broadcasting. April 19, 1948. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  8. ^ "WBZ-TV Formally Opened at Boston" (PDF). Broadcasting. June 14, 1948. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
  9. ^ "WSB-TV in Atlanta Opening on Sept. 29" (PDF). Broadcasting. September 27, 1948. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 12, 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  10. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 883. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
  11. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (2003). Short-Lived Television Series, 1948-1978: Thirty Years of More Than 1,000 Flops. McFarland. p. 9. ISBN 9780786414208. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  12. ^ Hollis, Tim (October 29, 2001). Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578063963.

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