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Television & Broadcasting

A new radio broadcast of the beloved Frank Capra movie is available online or by downloadable podcast.

The sitcom “All in the Family” debuted 50 years ago this month, and had a lasting effect on television and American culture.

Editor’s Note: Jim Cullen holds masters and PhD degrees in American Studies from Brown and the author of over a dozen books.

You can now listen to a radio play of the classic story of George Bailey co-sponsored by American Heritage.

25 Years Ago

Reginald Fessenden made the first radio broadcast in 1906, employing principles still in use today.

On December 24, 1906, in a wooden shack crammed with equipment in the seaside Massachusetts community of Brant Rock, a 40-year-old inventor named Reginald Fessenden made the world’s first radio broadcast.

What’s On Tonight?

 

In the Navy, we found parts to make a color television in 1946. Anything to watch the heavyweight championship.

In 1946, I was in the U.S. Navy, stationed at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
I tend to resist television history, especially when it’s on television. The narrator always says, “The Golden Age of …,” and there’s some grainy footage of a man dressed in women’s clothes tripping over a coffee table amid gusts of scratchy hilarity.
My family came late to television, or so it seemed to me and my equally impatient younger brother. The first set I ever saw was in the home of a kindly couple named Bowersox who lived just up Ingleside Avenue from us in Chicago. Mr.

The tremendous response to his radio shows led to standing-room-only theatre performances and cross-country tours, but Rudy Vallée claimed it was just good luck and timing.

One night in February, 1928, a technician from WABC, a pioneer radio station in New York City, finished adjusting his amplifying equipment in a nightclub at 35 East Fifty-third Street and signalled his readiness to the bandleader.

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