1938 in American television

none 1938 This is a list of American television-related events in 1938. Events March 12 - Adolf Hitler boldly annexed Austria. The group of broadcast journalists known as the Murrow Boys of CBS quickly assembled coverage of the event, with William L. Shirer in London, Edgar Ansel Mowrer in Paris, Pierre Huss in Berlin, Frank Gervasi in Rome, and Robert Trout in New York City.Barnouw, Golden, p. 78 April - Since 1936, RCA and its subsidiary NBC had started irregularly scheduled electronic television broadcasts."Where Is Television Now? https://web.archive.org/web/20080913065455/http://www.earlytelevision.org/where_is_television.html September 13, 2008 ", Popular Mechanics, August 1938, p. 178. Regularly scheduled electronic broadcasts began in April 1938 in New York City (to the second week of June, and resuming in August) and Los Angeles."Telecasts Here and Abroad", The New York Times, Drama-Screen-Radio section, April 24, 1938, p.10."Early Birds", Time, June 13, 1938."Telecasts to Be Resumed", The New York Times, Drama-Screen-Radio section, Aug. 21, 1938, p. 10.Robert L. Pickering, "Eight Years of Television in California" https://archive.today/20130415215134/http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/donlee.html April 15, 2013 , California — Magazine of the Pacific, June 1939. April 15 - Debut of the television series Vine Street, the first American television soap opera. It was broadcast by W6XAO in Los Angeles. http://www.earlytelevision.org/w6xao.html Early Television Stations: W6XAO/KTSL/KNXT – Los Angeles Earlytelevision.org November 13, 2018 May 31- The experimental television station W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York City broadcast the British film The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel. It was the first time that a first-run film was shown on American television. However, the staff projectionist played the last reel out of order, ending the film 20 minutes early. After the incident, NBC could not obtain first-run films for many years.https://jeff560.tripod.com/chronotv.html A U. S. Television Chronology, 1875-1970 jeff560.tripod.com November 3, 2022 June 7- An excerpt from Susan and God is the first Broadway play with its original cast to be broadcast on television. Station W2XBS uses exact replicas of the stage sets, with Nancy Coleman, Gertrude Lawrence and Paul McGrath appearing on the broadcast.Kane Joseph N. Some Television 'Firsts' https://archive.org/details/variety137-1940-01/page/n87 11 July 2019 Variety January 3, 1940 88 October 30 - CBS Radio gained a taste of infamy when The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, performed and directed by the 23-year-old Orson Welles. Its unique format, a contemporary version of the story in the form of faux news broadcasts, allegedly told listeners that invaders from Mars were actually invading and devastating Grovers Mill, New Jersey, despite three disclaimers during the broadcast stating that it was a work of fiction. The flood of publicity after the broadcast had two effects: a 1992 FCC law banning faux news bulletins within dramatic programming, and sponsorship for The Mercury Theatre on the Air. The series' format was changed into The Campbell Playhouse in order to sell soup.Barnouw, Golden, p. 88 November – Due to freak atmospheric conditions, a BBC TV broadcast from London is received in New York City. A film camera was used to record the silent images which included the performance of a play, a cartoon, and other matter. A four-minute excerpt from this filmed recording survives and is considered the only surviving example of a pre-World War II BBC television transmission.https://archive.org/details/BbcTelevisionReceivedInNewYork-1938 BBC Television received in New York - November 1938 Alexandra Palace Television Society 2017-02-11 Date uncertain - The Blue Network subsidiary of NBC struggles with falling revenues, due to being significantly smaller than its competitors. In 1938, Mutual had 107 affiliates, and CBS had 114.Time, September 19, 1938 Money for Minutes As of 1938, NBC had 23 stations in its core "Basic Red" group, and 24 in its "Basic Blue" group, with 107 stations that could be Red or Blue depending on the needs of a sponsor;McLeod Elizabeth Network Option Time http://members.aol.com/jeff560/am11.html January 8, 2007. In 1938, the American company DuMont Laboratories began manufacturing televisions at a factory in Passaic, New Jersey.Weinstein David The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television 2009 Temple University Press 9781592134991191 In 1938, CBS acquired the American Record Corporation, the parent company of its one-time investor Columbia Records.LPs historic http://www.musicinthemail.com/audiohistoryLP.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20160426151404/http://www.musicinthemail.com/audiohistoryLP.html April 26, 2016 February 11, 2012 Musicinthemail.com In 1938, NBC and CBS each opened broadcast studios on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood in order to attract the entertainment industry's top talent to their networks.Laurence Bergreen https://archive.org/details/looknowpaylaterr00berg Look Now, Pay Later: The Rise of Network Broadcasting Doubleday and Co. 1980 978-0-451-61966-2 New York City 99 registration Births 1938 in television#Births Deaths 1938 in television#Deaths References Sources Erik Barnouw A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States to 1933 Oxford University Press 1966 978-0-19-500474-8 New York City 1938 *