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  • June 18, 2014

Television’s First Rate Card… July 1, 1941 is the day NBC’s experimental station, W2XBS began commercial broadcasting as WNBT, New York. The call letters W2XBS meant W2XB-south, with W2XB being the call letters of the first experimental station, started a few months earlier at General Electric’s main factory in Schenectady, which is north of New […]

January 22, 1947…KTLA Becomes 1st Commercial TV In The West

  • January 22, 2015

January 22, 1947…KTLA Becomes The 1st Commercial Station In The West THIS IS A MUST SEE HISTORY OF EARLY LOS ANGELES TELEVISION! I’ve put up only two stories today so you can have the time to see them. This amazing video is packed with ultra rare historical footage of not only KTLA, but from the […]

Johnny Carson In NBC’s Studio 6B…

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