1941 in American television

none 1941 This is a list of American television-related events in 1941. Events January - The NBC-owned radio network Blue Network has completed a phase of expansion. While it had 33 stations in 1937, this total had nearly tripled by January 1941, when the network had 92 stations coast to coast."The Blue Network Today", page 3. May - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued formal rules to break up what it perceived to be monopolies in radio. One of these rules specifically barred a network from operating more than one hookup. The rule aimed directly against NBC's ownership of two radio networks.See the 1942 edition of the Britannica Book of the Year, under the entry for "Radio", page 556, as well as the May 12, 1941, edition of Time Chains Unchained? July 1- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allowed full-fledged commercial television broadcasts to begin on July 1, 1941. NBC station W2XBS in New York City received the first commercial license, adopting the call letters WNBT. The first official, paid television advertisement broadcast by any U.S. station was for watch manufacturer Bulova, which aired that day, just before the start of a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball telecast on WNBT. The ad consisted of test pattern, featuring the newly assigned WNBT call letters, which was modified to resemble a clock – complete with functioning hands – with the Bulova logo (featuring the phrase "Bulova Watch Time") in the lower right-hand quadrant of the test pattern (a photograph of the NBC camera setting up the test pattern-advertisement for that ad can be seen at this page). Among the programs that aired during the first week of WNBT's new, commercial schedule was The Sunoco News, a simulcast of the Sun Oil-sponsored NBC Radio program anchored by Lowell Thomas; amateur boxing at Jamaica Arena; the Eastern Clay Courts tennis championships; programming from the USO; the spelling bee-type game show Words on the Wing; a few feature films; and a one-time-only, test broadcast of the game show Truth or Consequences, sponsored by Lever Brothers.June 30 WNBT program schedule http://www.tvhistory.tv/1941_June_30_WNBT_Program.jpg TVHistory.tv 2022-03-26 2011-01-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20110118192604/http://www.tvhistory.tv/1941_June_30_WNBT_Program.jpg live "Imagery For Profit" R.W. Stewart, The New York Times, July 6, 1941. https://web.archive.org/web/20081009135015/http://www.earlytelevision.org/images/rca_bulova_ad-1.jpg October 9, 2008 WNBT/Bulova test patternhttps://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1941/1941-07-07-BC.pdf Novel Commercials in Video Debut Broadcasting 7 July 1941 8 November 2021 For a one-time experiment, the radio game show Truth or Consequences is televised on the first day of New York station WNBT's commercial program schedule. It was the first game show to air on broadcast television. However, the series did not appear on television again until 1950, when the medium had caught on commercially.Station WNBT Week of June 30th–July 5th, 1941 https://www.tvhistory.tv/1941_June_30_WNBT_Program.jpg 10 January 2012Debuts, Highlights, Changes (Continued) https://archive.org/details/rossreportstele10ross/page/n98/mode/1up?view=theater September 17, 2022 Ross Reports on Television including The Television Index September 3, 1950 2 July 2 - Debut of the televised game show CBS Television Quiz on the CBS television station in New York City, WCBW Channel 2 (the forerunner of WCBS-TV). It was the first game show to be broadcast regularly on television. It was an in-house production and broadcast in black and white. The host was Gil Fates, with Frances Buss as scorekeeper.Television Obscurities - Television Programs in 1941 22 December 2009 http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/tv_programs_1941/ Television Obscurities 10 August 2010Abelman Robert Reaching a Critical Mass: A Critical Analysis of Television Entertainment 1998 L. Erlbaum Associates 978-0-8058-2199-4 270 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781622492886/page/270 The CBS Television Quiz followed an answer-and-question format: contestants were given a clue and were asked to provide a question that the clue would answer. Beyond this, little is known about the show's mechanics.Abelman Robert Reaching a Critical Mass: A Critical Analysis of Television Entertainment 1998 L. Erlbaum Associates 978-0-8058-2199-4 270 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781622492886/page/270 December 31- The antitrust division of the United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust action against NBC and CBS, seeking to break up the networks' methods of operation. Mutual, at the same time, filed an antitrust suit of its own, in the amount of $10.275 million, according to the January 12, 1942, edition of Time.Time magazine, January 12, 1942 Old Law v. New Thing Television programs Debuts Date Debut Network July 1https://www.tvobscurities.com/2016/01/wcbw-schedule-week-of-june-29th-1941/ WCBW Schedule, Week of June 29th, 1941 - Television Obscurities 2016-01-05 Television Obscurities 2018-08-04 en-USMike Conway 2006-10-01 The Birth of CBS-TV News: An Ambitious Experiment at the Advent of U.S. Commercial Television https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1165191931/the-birth-of-cbs-tv-news-an-ambitious-experiment Journalism History en 32 3 0094-7679 2018-08-04 2024-07-01 Questia subscription https://web.archive.org/web/20180804051706/https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1165191931/the-birth-of-cbs-tv-news-an-ambitious-experiment deadhttps://books.google.com/books?id=VKkQP6b6IDsC&q=WCBW+December+1942&pg=PA89 The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s Conway Mike 2009 Peter Lang 9781433106026 en CBS Television News CBS July 1Station WNBT Week of June 30th–July 5th, 1941 https://www.tvhistory.tv/1941_June_30_WNBT_Program.jpg 10 January 2012 Truth or Consequences WNBT July 2Television Obscurities - Television Programs in 1941 22 December 2009 http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/tv_programs_1941/ Television Obscurities 10 August 2010Abelman Robert Reaching a Critical Mass: A Critical Analysis of Television Entertainment 1998 L. Erlbaum Associates 978-0-8058-2199-4 270 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781622492886/page/270 CBS Television Quiz WCBW December 19https://www.tvobscurities.com/2013/12/wnbt-schedule-week-of-december-14th-1941/ WNBT Schedule, Week of December 14th, 1941 Jay Robert 2013-12-17 Television Obscurities en-US 2019-07-02http://www.newspapers.com/image/432807367/?fcfToken=6a366f647354695751614f6844752f522b7333314f6e32702f68333051504e70352f706c3559743339784e764b57737276334735763643314f4a5a395538313234766553797a48577134733d 19 Feb 1942, 563 - Daily News at Newspapers.com Newspapers.com en 2019-07-02 America's Town Meeting of the Air NBC Births 1941 in television#Births Deaths 1941 in television#Deaths References Sources Blue Network Company The Blue Network Today; a Memorandum on Its First Independent Year, and Its Present Position in the American System of Broadcasting, with a Note on Blue History Blue Network Company, Inc. New York 1943 43939184 External links List of 1941 American television series at IMDb 1941 *