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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colgate Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC during 1949 and 1958 for a total of 50 episodes. The first edition, a live anthology, was telecast on Sunday nights ...

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 ...