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- A daily live broadcast provides current domestic and international news, weather reports, and interviews with newsmakers from the worlds of politics, business, media, entertainment, and sports.
- The show originated as a local New York City late night program in June 1953 and went onto the network in September 1954. Throughout the summer of 1956, Steve Allen was the only host. When Allen's prime-time series debuted in the summer of 1956, he limited his appearances on this show to Wednesday through Friday and a series of guest hosts filled in until 1 October 1956 when Ernie Kovacs took over as permanent host for the Monday and Tuesday broadcast. Kovacs had his own set of entertainers, i.e., Wendell, Hanley, Arthur and Loden. The last show was broadcast on 25 January 1957."Tonight's" first monologue was given with Steve Allen seated at the piano: "In case you're just joining us...this is Tonight...and I can't think of too much to tell you about it, except I want to give you the bad news first: this program is going to go on forever. I wouldn't call it a Spectacular....you might say it's more a Monotonious ."
- Best remembered by its posterior title, Your Show of Shows, this live variety show included comedy sketches with TV pioneers Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.
- Variety show hosted by Garry Moore with famous guests.
- The Mike Wallace Interview is a series of 30-minute television interviews conducted by host Mike Wallace from 1957 to 1960. Before The Mike Wallace Interview was televised nationally on prime-time in 1957, Wallace had risen to prominence a year earlier with Night-Beat, a television interview program that aired in New York City. (1957)
- The MDA Labor Day Telethon was an annual telethon held on Labor Day in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), which was founded in 1950 with hopes of gaining the American public's interest.
- Using 40 cameras and 12 mobile vans, this live Sunday afternoon program broadcast events in North America, the Caribbean and Europe. The show alternated with other programs during its run. Among it's many segments were live broadcasts from Havana, Cuba, Bimini, London and the first live shots of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The show was first introduced on Monday, June 27, 1955 as part of "Producers' Showcase", and continued on Monday evenings thru the summer of 1955. Regular Sunday broadcasts did not begin until the fall of 1955.. On the Sunday, October 1955 premiere the topic was 'A Sunday in Autumn'.
- Interviews with figures from public life.
- Primetime Emmy Award is the main American award in area of television, annually handed by the American television academy.
- Television's first late night entertainment broadcast, presented live from New York. The show featured comedy, music, and a raucous audience every weekday night.
- Game show in which comedians tried to make contestants laugh. Based on the US series of the same name.
- Primetime Emmy Award is the main American award in area of television, annually handed by the American television academy.
- Started as a radio discussion show all the way back in 1928, this program, moderated by radio veteran Theodore Granik, looked at a different issue each week, typically by bringing together two knowledgable guests from opposing sides of the issue to debate their opinions in front of a live studio audience.
- "Color Television; an NBC Documentary" shows some of the most advanced science of the day as we are taken behind the scenes not only at The Colonial Theater which was the very first color studio, but to RCA's laboratories and factories in Princeton and Camden NJ and more.
- Live and filmed simulcast introducing the NBC concept for weekend network radio programming, with a one -tine TV showing to introduce its features. NBC president Sylvester (Pat) L. Weaver, Jr., introduces and explains the "Monitor" idea. The program also introduces many of the "communicators" who will be on the radio programs each week.
- Short lived (4 weeks) show featuring Hollywood gossip columnist Rona Barrett hosting this program about television personalities, stories, etc. Joining her was Pat Weaver, former chairman of the board of NBC; humorist WIll Shriner; and TV columnist Gary Deeb.
- NBC TV's first color special to emanate from the network's new $3,700,000 Burbank studios. A live program of music, comedy and dramatic vignettes from New York and California.