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6 unusual facts about 1949 in television


1948–49 United States network television schedule

The 1948–49 United States network television schedule began in September of 1948 and ended in the spring of 1949.

1949–50 United States network television schedule

The 1949–50 United States network television schedule began in September of 1949 and ended in the spring of 1950.

Colgate Theatre

Colgate Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC during 1949 and 1958 for a total of 50 episodes in two different formats.

The School House

The School House is an early American television program broadcast on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 PM Eastern by the DuMont Television Network for a few months in 1949.

The Uncle Al Show

In the summer of 1949, then-General Manager Mort Watters asked Lewis (hired on two months earlier as WCPO's first art director) to host an hour-long filler show called Al's Corner Drugstore, in which Lewis, dressed in a soda jerk's uniform, would take phone-in requests for songs which he would play on his accordion, which would later become one of his many trademarks along with his straw boater hat.

Vitascan

Development began in 1949 and the product was released on an experimental basis in 1956.



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