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This is a list of American television-related events in 1945.

Events

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  • February 25 - The script for a February 25, 1945, broadcast of Ladies Be Seated, which was a relatively popular audience-participation/stunt game show on Blue Network radio, still exists, and is reprinted in full in Ritchie.[1] It is, in fact, the script for the first broadcast of the show in television.[2] It was hosted by Johnny Olson, who would later become the long-running announcer on most of CBS's Goodson-Todman-produced game shows, most notably Match Game and The Price Is Right.
  • On May 8, 1945, WNBT broadcast hours of news coverage on the end of World War II in Europe, and remotes from around New York City. This event was pre-promoted by NBC with a direct-mail card sent to television set owners in the New York City area.[3] At one point, a WNBT camera placed atop the marquee of the Astor Hotel in New York City panned the crowd below celebrating the end of the war in Europe.[4]

Television programs

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Debuts

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Date Debut Network
February 27[5] [6] [7] Ladies Be Seated Blue Network
February[8] Dr. Death WNBT
October[9][10] Teletruth WNBT
Date uncertain[11] On Stage, Everybody WABD
Date uncertain[12] [13] Television Quarterback WNBT

Births

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Main article: 1945 in television § Births

Deaths

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Main article: 1945 in television § Deaths

References

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  1. ^ "Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television, Michael Ritchie (Overlook Press, New York, 1994), pages 223 ff.
  2. ^ Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television, Michael Ritchie (Overlook Press, New York, 1994), pages 67–8
  3. ^ "1945 April 20, VE Day NBC/WNBT Postcard". tvhistory.tv. Archived from the original on November 9, 2005. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  4. ^ "May 8, 1945...Victory in Europe Day, Times Square". eyesofageneration.com. Archived from the original on August 24, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  5. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 460. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
  6. ^ "Blue Net Test Video Economics" (PDF). Broadcasting. February 26, 1945. p. 62. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  7. ^ "Blue Video Test Uses WABD, WRGB" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 22, 1945. p. 61. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Tele Review". Billboard. Vol. 27, no. 7. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. February 17, 1945. p. 32. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  9. ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 25 May 1946. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  10. ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 20 October 1945. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  11. ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1995-02-25. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-02-13.
  12. ^ Steinhauser, Si (October 1, 1947). "Vox Pop Leads 'Horning In' on Bing's Night". The Pittsburgh Press. p. 36. Retrieved November 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "NBC's Record Wax Sale; KYW Hypoes Football Programming" (PDF). Billboard. September 28, 1946. p. 14. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
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