(WJAR) — NBC approached the Outlet about the possibility of creating an NBC affiliate in 1944. The first day on the air was on July 10, 1949. The TV station’s first broadcast was a Boston Red Sox game ...

On Sept. 5, 1949 the New York State Fair opened and with it came a marketing blitz for the new medium of television. “To those who dream of unlimited video sales here, the television end of the State ...

TELEVISION faces a critical year. Until now the question has been how last television, would develop; and all through 1948 the answer came that it would develop so fast that velocity itself would have ...

LATE in the evening of January 20, 1949, President Truman went home from the Inaugural Ball. In cities as far apart as Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Richmond, and Detroit, television receivers snapped ...

SAN DIEGO — KFMB TV is dedicated to telling San Diego's stories, but in 1949 our TV station was was the story and we made front page news. In this Zevely Zone, I visited the U.S.S. Midway Museum to ...

World War II had been over just a few years. A family could move into a Cape Cod house for about $10,000, and they could park a new Chevrolet in the driveway for about $1,500. And the Outlet Company ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 1, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. KSL television began broadcasting on June 1, 1949, ...

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