History of Television News
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Today, the most widely used means of telecommunication is undoubtedly the television. It has become more of a requirement these days than a luxury. Gone are the days when people used to rely on newspapers to get their daily dosage of events happening around the world. Now the most current and instant access to happenings take place within our homes, and we can keep abreast of any incident that happens around the world by way of a television.
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The history of television news goes way back to 1948 when CBS TV News was started by Douglas Edwards, with Don Hewitt as the producer for the news. Things only began after this, and 1949 saw the broadcast on KTLA of the rescue of Kathy Fiscus which went on for 27 hours. At this time, around 1945, there were less than 7,000 television sets around the US, and only about nine stations that were on air. The largest television demonstration in Philadelphia, which also holds a record till date, is when 25,000 people gathered over twenty one days in October 1945 to see the programs being broadcasted by NBC and a local Philadelphian television station known as Philco.
Children’s series known as Howdy Doody were first telecasted for an hour every Saturday in the year 1947, and other programs such as Meet the Press and premieres of Kraft Television Theater was also telecasted. However, the color televisions were still a matter of speculation though the go ahead was given on the standards that existed.
The BBC coverage of the coronation was considered the best news event ever covered in television history, and that is when the sales of TV sets sky-rocketed.
Our morning may be vague without the first cup of brewed beverage, but it is definitely incomplete without our daily dosage of hot news from around the world.
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