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I Love Lucy: Candy Factory
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One of America's most famous television clips ... features Lucy and Ethel trying to keep up with the candy factory machinery. Recreated on shows such as Drake and Josh. -
Elvis Presley on Ed Sullivan
Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8th, 1935, but it probably wasn’t until his September 9th, 1956 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show that America witnessed the birth of “The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” It was a high profile cultural moment and national event when 82% of the television viewing audience watched. Photo: Wikipedia -
The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show
On February 9th, 1964, The Beatles, with their Edwardian suits and mop top haircuts, made their first American television appearance live on The Ed Sullivan Show.A record setting 73 million people tuned in that evening making it one of the seminal moments in television history. Nearly fifty years later, people still remember exactly where they were the night The Beatles stepped onto Ed Sullivan’s stage. -
Believe in Miracles?
Few types of programming captured the magic and energy of live television like sports, which found fans across the world glued to their sets, yelling at their screens, and shaking their friends in excitement. And one of the greatest TV sports moments ever came on February 22, 1980, when the ragtag underdog US Olympic hockey team faced the heavily favored Soviet team at Lake Placid, New York.
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Wedding of Charles and Diana
The wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer took place on 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral, London, England. The ceremony was a traditional Church of England wedding service. Notable figures in attendance included many members of royal families from across the world, republican heads of state, and members of the bride's and groom's families. Their marriage was widely billed as a "fairytale wedding" and the "wedding of the century". -
MASH Finale
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen is a television movie that served as the 256th and final episode of the M*A*S*H television series. Closing out the series' eleventh season, the 2½-hour episode first aired on CBS on February 28, 1983. From 1983 until 2010, "Goodbye, Farewell and and Amen" remained the most watched television broadcast in American history, passed only in total viewers in February 2010 by Super Bowl XLIV
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the Communist Party announced that citizens could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. -
Muhammad Ali Lights the Olympic Torch
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Muhammad Ali’s personal charisma, challenging politics, and unmatched athletic skill had rendered him one of television’s most prolific and, ultimately, beloved figures. It is something worth watching. -
Hurricane Katrina
What started in the Bahamas, quickly traveled into the states, severe weather coverage has, by now, become a series of visual cues: breaking waves, heavy rains, on-the-scene reporters braving the forces in network windbreakers. Katrina became another story where mere “objectivity” wouldn’t do; the story was a shared experience, and an infuriating one. <a href='http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2015/08/19/10-years-later-hurricane-katrina-specials-on-cnn-abc-weather-bet/' >10 Years Later: An Updat -
9/11 Tv Coverage
The morning news shows were winding down on that Tuesday morning in September when reports came in to their control rooms: a plane had hit the World Trade Center, which you can see in this photo, provided by Wikipedia. The attack on the Pentagon, and the crumbling of each tower all happened on live television, with not only cable news channels but broadcast networks going to continuous coverage and viewers across the nation riveted to their televisions for hours, days, and weeks.
