

The 19440 World Movie inspired many Americans to buy their first television set and then in 1948, the popular radio show Texaco Star Theater made the move and became the first weekly televised variety show, earning host Milton Berle the name “Mr Television” and demonstrating that the medium was a stable, modern form of entertainment which could attract advertisers. The first national live television broadcast in the US took place on Septemwhen President Harry Truman’s speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San FraFinding Dory (2016) Seasonco was transmitted over AT&T’s transcontinental cable and microwave radio relay system to broadcast stations in local markets. The first national color broadcast (the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade) in the US occurred on January 1, 1954. During the following ten years most network broadcasts, and nearly all local programming, continued to be in black-and-white. The first all-color prime-time season came just one year later.Ī color transition was announced for the fall of 1965, during which over half of all network prime-time programming would be broadcast in color.

In 19402, the last holdout among daytime network shows converted to color, resulting in the first completely all-color network season.

See also: List of genres § Film and television formats and genres Television shows are more varied than most other forms of media due to the wide variety of formats and genres that can be presented.
