1945 in American television

This is a list of American television-related events in 1945.

List of years in American television:
1944–45 United States network television schedule
1945–46 United States network television schedule
List of American television programs currently in production

Events
  • February 25 - The script for a February 25, 1945, broadcast of Ladies Be Seated, which was a relatively popular audience-participation/stunt game show on Blue Network radio, still exists, and is reprinted in full in Ritchie.[1] It is, in fact, the script for the first broadcast of the show in television.[2] It was hosted by Johnny Olson, who would later become the long-running announcer on most of CBS's Goodson-Todman-produced game shows, most notably Match Game and The Price Is Right.
  • On May 8, 1945, WNBT broadcast hours of news coverage on the end of World War II in Europe, and remotes from around New York City. This event was pre-promoted by NBC with a direct-mail card sent to television set owners in the New York City area.[3] At one point, a WNBT camera placed atop the marquee of the Astor Hotel in New York City panned the crowd below celebrating the end of the war in Europe.[4]

Television programs

Debuts
Date Debut Network
February 27[5] [6] [7] Ladies Be Seated Blue Network
February[8] Dr. Death WNBT
October[9][10] Teletruth WNBT
Date uncertain[11] On Stage, Everybody WABD
Date uncertain[12] [13] Television Quarterback WNBT

Births
Main article: 1945 in television § Births

Deaths
Main article: 1945 in television § Deaths

References
  1. "Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television, Michael Ritchie (Overlook Press, New York, 1994), pages 223 ff.
  2. Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television, Michael Ritchie (Overlook Press, New York, 1994), pages 67–8
  3. "1945 April 20, VE Day NBC/WNBT Postcard". tvhistory.tv. Archived from the original on November 9, 2005. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  4. "May 8, 1945...Victory in Europe Day, Times Square". eyesofageneration.com. Archived from the original on August 24, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  5. McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 460. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
  6. "Blue Net Test Video Economics" (PDF). Broadcasting. February 26, 1945. p. 62. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  7. "Blue Video Test Uses WABD, WRGB" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 22, 1945. p. 61. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  8. "Tele Review". Billboard. Vol. 27, no. 7. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. February 17, 1945. p. 32. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  9. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 25 May 1946. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  10. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 20 October 1945. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  11. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1995-02-25. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-02-13.
  12. Steinhauser, Si (October 1, 1947). "Vox Pop Leads 'Horning In' on Bing's Night". The Pittsburgh Press. p. 36. Retrieved November 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "NBC's Record Wax Sale; KYW Hypoes Football Programming" (PDF). Billboard. September 28, 1946. p. 14. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
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