Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr was the director of research at DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey where he was exploring the use of cathode ray tubes in television sets.
A Charlie Brown Christmas went on to win both a Peabody Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program.
An Unearthly Child was the first of a four-part serial that saw actor William Hartnell take the role of the time-travelling Doctor Who.
Saturday Night Live was originally known as NBC’s Saturday Night to avoid any confusion with the ABC show Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell.
Teletext was the dominant medium for accessing breaking news until the arrival of the World Wide Web.
Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, the USA’s most popular television show, for the first time.
On the 24th May 1956, the first Eurovision Song Contest took place in Lugano, Switzerland.
An overwhelmingly positive reaction in season one meant that Simpsons shorts were featured in every episode of the next two seasons before being spun off into a standalone half-hour series in 1989.
On the 19th February 1985, the BBC’s flagship soap opera EastEnders was broadcast for the first time.
Elvis Presley became the first solo entertainer to broadcast a live performance via satellite with Aloha From Hawaii.
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