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Friday, July 1, 2011

Tee Vee Is King, Still

Seventy yrs. ago today, under the crushing regime of FDR's fascist Federal Communications Commission (Like Commissars! Or Cossacks!!) commercial television broadcasting was allowed.

Imagine a clever satirical tune about telebision posted here from YouTube. Anniv. details. Synopsis for lip-readers.
(More than coincidence? As we type, Vin Scully, doing the Dodger game on tee vee, mentions that one of the events of seventy yrs. ago was the telecast of the [Brooklyn] Dodger game.)
Back to regular programming:
Running movies by the second day.

The NYT of 1 July 1941:
Television transmission begins in New York today on three channels. WNBT, on Channel 1, will be operated by the National Broadcasting Company from about 1:20 to 10:30 p.m., except for an interval from about 5 to 8 p.m. WCBW, on Channel 2, operated by the Columbia System, will be on from 2:30 to 3:30 and 7:30 to 9:30. Station W2XWV of the DuMont Labratories, on Channel 4, will be on the air from about 12 noon to 6 p.m.

Throughout the nation at least twenty-two stations are scheduled to begin commercial operation today, in accordance with the ruling of the Federal Communications Commission.
For NBC & DuMont, quantity is quality.
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3 comments:

  1. Unknown02 July, 2011 09:48

    Ah yes..the FCC was bullshit then and it's still bullshit now.

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  2. Big Bad Bald Bastard02 July, 2011 10:57

    Hail to the king! I'm like Robin Hood, hiding in the forest, not acknowledging the king's authority.

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  3. M. Bouffant02 July, 2011 23:33

    Editor Bemoans:

    There's one in every crowd, isn't there?

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