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One woman wrote, produced and starred in a hit TV show that launched in 1949. Jennifer Keishin Armstrong looks at the extraordinary success of Gertrude Berg.
Feb. 9, 1964: The Beatles debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. Twisting. Shouting. 1964: The first television studio is constructed on-site at the Masters. 1965: Chirkinian spearheads a pair of sports ...
Since Nielsen launched The Gauge in 2021, streamers’ proportion of total TV consumption has grown 71 percent. Broadcast and cable, meanwhile, have shrunk a respective 21 and 39 percent.
For the first time, lesbians outnumber gay men among broadcast television’s LGBTQ characters, according to a report released Thursday from the queer media advocacy group GLAAD. In its annual ...
The following year, CBS welcomed a record audience to the Masters, the first golf tournament ever broadcast in color. As Chirkinian blinked into the newly colorized monitor in the production truck ...
The first Super Bowl was broadcast on two TV networks and watched by millions of fans, but today the historic telecast is under lock and key, and viewable by only a lucky few. 1967's title game ...
Only 27.6% of shows on broadcast TV have series regulars of underrepresented minorities, according to a 2016 report on diversity in entertainment done by USC’s Annenberg School.
Streaming platforms outpaced broadcast and cable in July's total TV viewership. The change came as new seasons of hits on Hulu and Netflix debuted and live sports and traditional shows went on hiatus.
On Dec. 1, Japanese TV networks began publicly broadcasting in both 4K and 8K. The Japanese broadcaster NHK is behind the world first, and it led with a classic bit of film -- a newly restored ...