Today in TV History - June 30
1952 - CBS debuted "The Guiding Light."
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1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on Steve Allen's TV show. He sang the song "Hound Dog" to an actual basset hound. 1970 - NBC air...
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1959 - CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed Lee Remick. It was his 500th and final guest on "Person to Person."
1951 - The first commercial color TV program was a show presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own col...
The regular broadcast season ended last month with Fox at No. 1 in 18-49s and CBS No. 1 in households. But it’s only this week that media bu...
Ed McMahon, one of the great wingmen in show business history and an essential, elemental and indispensable part of Johnny Carson's act ...
HUMAN TARGET: Christopher Chance is a detective-bodyguard hired by people in danger to eliminate threats.
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1961 - The final episode of "You Bet Your Life"/"The Groucho Show" was aired. 2001 - The final episode of "Xena: Wa...
1934 - The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate radio and TV broadcasting. 1946 - Gillette Razo...
1959 - The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV. 2006 - Dan Rather's final CBS News report was air...
1941 - WNBT-TV in New York City, NY, was granted the first construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the U.S. 1982 - Former ...
1952 - "My Little Margie" debuted on CBS-TV. 1976 - The TV show "The Jacksons" began airing for four weeks on CBS. 2002 ...
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1993 - FOX-TV aired "Paul McCartney Live In The New World." It was McCartney's first live concert to be televised. 2007 - Bob ...
1923 - Charles Francis Jenkins cited this date as the day he transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images. 1939 - Ethel Waters became t...
1965 - Sonny and Cher performed "I Got You Babe" on "American Bandstand."
Here is a clip from the first Night of "Late Night with Joan Rivers" on FOX. PeeWee Herman is a guest.
SAG Approves Two-Year Contract : Screen Actors Guild members have ratified a two-year feature-primetime contract with a 78% yes vote, ending...
Over the course of the next few weeks, I will be asking you what you will be watching this fall, hour by hour. This week, we will look at th...
1948 - The debut of Milton Berle hosted "Texaco Star Theater" on NBC. 1979 - The final episode of "Welcome Back, Kotter"...
1955 - The "Mickey Rooney Show" was aired on NBC for the last time. 1981 - The final episode of "The Waltons" aired on C...
Just got my print edition of TV Week and on the last page is an interesting little article. In the article, they mention that CBS was able t...
Merlin is an exciting fantasy series set in the mythic city of Camelot, but inspired by 21st Century storytelling. Before Merlin and Arthur ...
You haven't seen inside a hospital until you've seen it through the eyes of those who know it best: its nurses. Veronica Callahan is...
1948 - The last episode of the first comedy variety program, "The Admiral Broadway Revue" was aired. 1969 - The final episode of &...
Sometimes it pays to be the tortoise, not the hare, and come fall the longtime tortoise of broadcast TV, CBS, is the one media buyers think ...
1966 - The final episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" aired on CBS. 1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all...