One thing about this thread... it just reinforces how good TV used to be in the good old days...( well the 1980s..) Outside of Sports, the News, PBS and food shows... I dont watch much TV. I think the last compelling show that I watched regularly was the first few seasons of America's Next Top Model
The Golden Age of TV could get its own thread. -
Triad, you missed a lot of good TV back in the day. Good TV is subjective. We all have our own ideas of what's good (story lines) and what isn't. The TV western "Gunsmoke" with James Arness (with Doc, Kitty and Chester) was extremely popular back then and ran for 20 years. The technology alone that was available then is supremely inferior to the technology used today. Words that are used today as well as subject matter was not freely used in the early days of radio and TV.
When
Clark Gable uttered that famous line in Gone with the Wind (1939): " Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn", it shocked theater audiences and the media at the time. There were TV and motion picture sensors that would not allow some words to be used in a script. The moral fiber of the country was higher and tighter back then.
Those of us old enough to remember the good old days of TV in it's infancy in the late 40's and early 1950's had our favorite shows. They were broadcast in analog, the picture was fuzzy and in black & white. Most of the early TV's back then were 15" tube TV's that required a set of "rabbit ears" to function.
In the United States, the current
Golden Age of Television has been a period widely regarded as being marked by a large number of high quality, internationally acclaimed
television programs. ...
Television programming has had a huge impact on American and world culture. Many critics have dubbed the
1950s as the Golden Age of
Television.
TV sets were expensive and
so the audience was generally affluent. ... During the
50s, quiz shows became
popular until a scandal erupted.
Its name refers to the original Golden Age of Television which occurred in the 1950s.
Television during the 1950s and 60s - Wessel's Living History Farm
Television during the 1950s and 60s
The drive for TV was started in conjunction with the opening of the World's Fair in New York City in the spring of
1939. Regularly scheduled television programming was born on April 30 when NBC cameras televised President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially opening the fair, and Sarnoff announcing "the birth in this country of a new art so important in its implications that it is bound to affect all society. Until this date telecasting had been confined to a few experimental hours per week. Very few households had a TV set in 1939.
KTLA - On January 22, 1947, the station was licensed for commercial broadcasting as
KTLA on channel 5, becoming the first commercial
television station in
Los Angeles,
the first to broadcast west of the Mississippi River, and the eighth commercial television station in the United States.
First air date: January 22, 1947 (72 years ago)
History ·
Digital television ·
Programming ·
News operation
Golden Age of Television (2000s–present) - Wikipedia
Sorry for busting the thread, I got carried away.
Well, it is if you can eliminate the "TV" bit as being too limiting!
