Viewers have come to rely on television titan for general conference, Olympics, immediate coverage.

TELEVISION faces a critical year. Until now the question has been how last television, would develop; and all through 1948 the answer came that it would develop so fast that velocity itself would have ...

LATE in the evening of January 20, 1949, President Truman went home from the Inaugural Ball. In cities as far apart as Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Richmond, and Detroit, television receivers snapped ...

On Sept. 5, 1949 the New York State Fair opened and with it came a marketing blitz for the new medium of television. “To those who dream of unlimited video sales here, the television end of the State ...

Colgate Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC during 1949 and 1958 for a total of 50 episodes. The first edition, a live anthology, was telecast on Sunday nights ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 1, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. KSL television began broadcasting on June 1, 1949, ...