War News

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• War News
• Edward R. Murrow
• Bob Hope, Jack Benny visited soldiers
• Reining in the Networks
• FCC Report on Chain Bcasting, 1941 promoted
  localism
• NBC forced to sell NBC Blue, it became ABC

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• Television
• 1939, RCA/NBC, demonstrated TV at Worlds Fair in
  NY (click on picture)
• NTSC standards set, 1941
• WNBT (WNBC), July 1941
• Pearl Harbor, WWII held up development of TV

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• 1945-60 A Golden Age Dawns
• Postwar boom
• CBS demonstrated color, 1946
• ABC, Dumont joined NBC, CBS
• Another Freeze
• Original TV stations all VHF, 2-13
• Freeze on TV licenses, 1948
• Sixth Report and Order, 1952 created UHF band
• Radio revenues fell by half, 48-58

4

• National Impact
• Early TV was live no videotape
• By 1950, 7 million sets in use
• TVs Variety
• Live plays, Westerns, quiz shows
• I Love Lucy shot on film, reruns
• First all-black show, Amos n Andy
  stereotypes
• Soap operas imported from radio

5

• Elvis and Quiz Shows
• Videotape introduced, 1956
• Elvis on Ed Sullivan
• Quiz-show scandals, 1958 public interest
• In 1950, 9 had TVs. By 1960, 87

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• Radio
• 45 rpm records, teen agers
• TI, transistor radio, 1953
• Radio rethinking itself
• Top 40 radio Todd Storz, Gordon McLendon (KLIF)
• Repetition, brief news, contests, fast-pace,
  personality DJs
• KLIF highest-rated station in
• KLIF airchecks