This day in 1993 marked the last telecast of the ABC sitcom, Room For Two. The short-lived series — which debuted in 1992 and followed the top-rated Roseanne in the ABC lineup — starred Linda Lavin and current The Middle star Patricia Heaton...

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2000: VOYEURISM TV COMES TO CBS WITH 'BIG BROTHER' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 2000, CBS debuted its version of the Dutch reality/competition show, Big Brother...

2012

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1994: LAUNCH OF CABLE'S 'AMERICA'S TALKING' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1994, NBC launched the 24-hour cable network, America's Talking. The channel's creator, CNBC president and chief executive Roger Ailes, envisioned the cable network as a place average viewers could find talk shows featuring on a mix of news, health and relationship programming, newsmaker interviews, and more.America's Talking (and CNBC) was based in Fort Lee, N.J. and featured simple (and shared) bare-bones sets. AT hosts included Steve Doocy, who co-hosted the morning news talk

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1999: LAST TELECAST FOR 'THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN' By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1999 marked the last telecast of the CBS drama, The Magnificent Seven: The Series. The show was an adaptation of John Sturges' classic 1960 movie of the same name starring Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Eli Wallach and Robert Vaughn, in which seven men from different walks of life band together to protect a town from the lawlessness of the West. The 1960 movie was an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film, Seven Samura

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ANDY GRIFFITH, DEAD AT 86 By Christy Slewinski

Actor Andy Griffith, star of The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, died early today at his North Carolina home. He was 86...

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1955: THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW PREMIERES ON ABC By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1955, ABC added a local Los Angeles musical variety show to its prime-time schedule as a summer replacement series. That show — The Lawrence Welk Show — went on to air on ABC for 16 years. (At one point, from 1956 to 1959, the network gave Welk a second one-hour time slot for a second show, Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes and New Talent.) The show featured big band leader Lawrence Welk and a host of singers and musicians performing a range of standards. At times,

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1941: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TELEVISION! By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1941 marked the first day of commercial television broadcasting. Although "experimental" television had been around since 1939, July 1, 1941 was the day that the Federal Communications Commission licenses went into effect, permitting broadcasters to transmit programs and advertising. The first channels to receive FCC licenses were New York's WNBT (the precursor to WNBC), operated by the National Broadcasting Company, and WCBW (now CBS) operated by the Columbia Broadcasting System.

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