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.