Tag: Television

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26th November 1976: Sex Pistols release the punk single ‘Anarchy in the UK’

• 26th November 2022
• Tagged as: Culture, Music, Punk, Television

The Damned had released what is recognised as the first ever punk single a month earlier.

• Podcast

10th November 1969: Sesame Street broadcast for the first time on American television

• 10th November 2022
• Tagged as: America, Culture, Education, School, Sesame Street, Television, United States, USA

Sesame Street was first conceived in 1966 as a way to provide low-income, inner-city children with an educational foundation ready for when they began formal schooling.

• Podcast

26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate

• 26th September 2022
• Tagged as: America, Debate, Election, Kennedy, Nixon, Politics, Television, United States

The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

• Podcast

11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite

• 11th July 2022
• Tagged as: Cold War, Culture, France, Satellite, Science, Space, Space Race, Spacecraft, Technology, Television, USA

Telstar’s first broadcast involved  relaying an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in France.

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7th February 1964: The Beatles arrive in the United States for their first appearance on national television

• 7th February 2022
• Tagged as: America, Beatles, Britain, Culture, Ed Sullivan, Music, New York, Television, The Beatles, USA

The band landed at New York’s Kennedy Airport on 7 February to be greeted by 3,000 screaming fans.

• Podcast

25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game

• 25th January 2022
• Tagged as: Culture, Electronics, Invention, Patent, Science, Technology, Television

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.

• Podcast

9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS

• 9th December 2021
• Tagged as: America, Art, Cartoon, Comic, Culture, Television, United States, USA

A Charlie Brown Christmas went on to win both a Peabody Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program.

• Podcast

23rd November 1963: First ever episode of Doctor Who broadcast by on BBC television

• 23rd November 2021
• Tagged as: Art, BBC, Britain, Culture, Television

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.

• Podcast

11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time

• 11th October 2021
• Tagged as: Comedy, Culture, New York, Television, USA

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.

• Podcast

23rd September 1974: BBC launches Ceefax, the world’s first teletext service

• 23rd September 2021
• Tagged as: Britain, Broadcast, Culture, News, Technology, Television

Teletext was the dominant medium for accessing breaking news until the arrival of the World Wide Web.