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 ...

SAN DIEGO — On May 16, 1949, KFMB-TV made history as the first TV station to hit the airwaves in San Diego. Now known as CBS 8, the channel has continued to deliver the headlines of the day via News 8 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

World War II had been over just a few years. A family could move into a Cape Cod house for about $10,000, and they could park a new Chevrolet in the driveway for about $1,500. And the Outlet Company ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

For the week starting Friday, Sept. 23. Times are E.D.T., subject to change. NBC Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Conductor: Walter Ducloux. “ University Theater ...

The 1949 book Television: Medium of the Future by Maurice Gorham correctly identifies, but dismisses, a concern about the visual age: voting with your eyes. Fears have been expressed lest this new ...

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 name Lena Richard may no longer be familiar in New Orleans, but in 1949 before Julia Child was on PBS or Emeril Lagasse was a twinkle in the Food Network’s eye, there was “Mama Lena,” who taught ...