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Any major anniversary marathons coming?

anotherguyTN

anotherguyTN

I know it's probably a little early, but with the 50 years ago Fall schedule threads I had the thought of will there possibly be marathons for either the 60th anniversary of I Love Lucy on Hallmark or ME-TV (Which I'm STILL waiting for to come to my area), or the 50th anniversary of The Dick Van Dyke Show on ME-TV? I also know this would be the 40th anniversary of All in the Family earlier this year, but TV Land and Antenna TV have done nothing with that. Any ideas? Thanks!  ;D
 
How about a Fox 25th Anniversary Special in honor of the Network owned by Rupert Murdoch? Are they going to air it in the next TV season?
 
Thanks Gregg for the correction..Hopefully by this time, MeTV will have replaced WOIO "Weather Now" on 19.2. So Northeast Ohio will have MeTV, Antenna TV and RTV..
 
dgendvil said:
How about a Fox 25th Anniversary Special in honor of the Network owned by Rupert Murdoch? Are they going to air it in the next TV season?
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yes, all 21 episodes of the Wilton-North Report for seven days in a row! ;D
 
There was actually a missed opportunity...July 1 was actually the 70th anniversary of the first fully licensed commercial broadcasts of both NBC and CBS. Content the first day wasn't much (a few cheap variety shows, films and remotes, and a baseball game) but a look at what came over the next seven decades of television might have been fun. Wonder why they didn't do it?
 
Bob1370 said:
There was actually a missed opportunity...July 1 was actually the 70th anniversary of the first fully licensed commercial broadcasts of both NBC and CBS... Wonder why they didn't do it?
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Maybe waiting for the 75th Anniversary in 2016, perhaps?
 
Bob1370 said:
There was actually a missed opportunity...July 1 was actually the 70th anniversary of the first fully licensed commercial broadcasts of both NBC and CBS. Content the first day wasn't much (a few cheap variety shows, films and remotes, and a baseball game) but a look at what came over the next seven decades of television might have been fun. Wonder why they didn't do it?
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In 1998 CBS did a 50th anniversary special , claiming that 1948 was the beginning of the TV network, although that wasn't totally true, and the 1941 anniversary is proof of that. They also did a 75th anniversary special in 2003(?) based on the beginning of the radio network, although the major emphasis was on TV.
 
"In 1998 CBS did a 50th anniversary special , claiming that 1948 was the beginning of the TV network..."

In a way that was true, since April of 1948 was the time CBS began to send programming to other cities and other affiliates beyond the New York market (anything they produced before April of '48 was seen only on Channel 2 in New York). But WCBS-TV was on the air from the beginning day of commercial TV in 1941 (with the callsign WCBW until 1946)--they just didn't feed programming anywhere else, and most of their key early affiliates in towns like Buffalo, Boston, Detroit, Philly, Baltimore, Cleveland and DC didn't get up and running until the winter of 1947 or the spring of 1948.

NBC, on the other hand, was sending shows on a spot basis to other stations from the start, even in the months before WPTZ in Philly (fall '41) and WRGB in Schenectady/Albany (spring '42) had their full commercial licenses in hand. NBC had a regular schedule of prime-time newscasts and news/feature magazines fed to those three cities as early as the middle of 1944, when all three had their full commercial tickets.
 
anotherguy said:
Bob1370 said:
There was actually a missed opportunity...July 1 was actually the 70th anniversary of the first fully licensed commercial broadcasts of both NBC and CBS. Content the first day wasn't much (a few cheap variety shows, films and remotes, and a baseball game) but a look at what came over the next seven decades of television might have been fun. Wonder why they didn't do it?
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In 1998 CBS did a 50th anniversary special , claiming that 1948 was the beginning of the TV network, although that wasn't totally true, and the 1941 anniversary is proof of that. They also did a 75th anniversary special in 2003(?) based on the beginning of the radio network, although the major emphasis was on TV.
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CBS also did a 50th anniversary special for Television City, and somewhere on YouTube, there's clips of a 25th anniversary special from the mid-70s. Next year (in November) will be Television City's 60th anniversary.
 
anotherguy said:
Bob1370 said:
There was actually a missed opportunity...July 1 was actually the 70th anniversary of the first fully licensed commercial broadcasts of both NBC and CBS. Content the first day wasn't much (a few cheap variety shows, films and remotes, and a baseball game) but a look at what came over the next seven decades of television might have been fun. Wonder why they didn't do it?
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In 1998 CBS did a 50th anniversary special , claiming that 1948 was the beginning of the TV network, although that wasn't totally true, and the 1941 anniversary is proof of that. They also did a 75th anniversary special in 2003(?) based on the beginning of the radio network, although the major emphasis was on TV.
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CBS also celebrated their 50th Anniversary from March 26-Apr. 1, 1978 with "CBS: On the Air" with a week-long series of specials. The first eight minutes with celebrity introductions is posted below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ygeaorPhs

(IIRC the entire episodes for all 7 parts may be on YouTube).
 
Bob1370 said:
There was actually a missed opportunity...July 1 was actually the 70th anniversary of the first fully licensed commercial broadcasts of both NBC and CBS. Content the first day wasn't much (a few cheap variety shows, films and remotes, and a baseball game) but a look at what came over the next seven decades of television might have been fun. Wonder why they didn't do it?
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Wonder why they didn't do it?...

Because it wouldn't be of interest to their key demos. It would remind everyone NOT in that key demo of how good TV used to be. And if you can remember that, that means you're too old to be of interest to advertisers of anything but laxatives, viagra....

It would be a history lesson. When was the last time you saw anything of this sort on NBC or CBS? Anything "smart?"

If anything, it would have been worth maybe a 1:30 package as a kicker in their evening news.

And keep in mind, there were commercials on TV before July 1, 1941. There was an experimental period in 1940.
 
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