1950 in American television

Television related events in the USA during 1950

List of years in American television:

* 1947
* 1948
* 1949
* 1950
* 1951
* 1952
* 1953

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1949–50 United States network television schedule
1950–51 United States network television schedule
List of American television programs currently in production

This is a list of American television-related events in 1950.

## Events

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May  | The television production company Desilu Productions was founded by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.  |
October 10  | CBS' color television system is approved by the Federal Communications Commission. This approval goes in effect on November 20.  |

### Other information

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One million American households were reported to own a television set in 1950. [citation needed]

## Television programs

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### Debuts

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Date  | Debut  | Network  | Notes/Ref.

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January 4  | Abe Burrows' Almanac | CBS |
January 7  | The Ken Murray Show | CBS |
January 7[1] | Rocky King, Detective | DuMont |
January 13  | Life Begins at Eighty | NBC  |
January 17  | Cavalcade of Bands | DuMont  |
January 28  | Dinner Date | DuMont  |
January 30  | Robert Montgomery Presents | NBC |
February 2  | What's My Line? | CBS |
February 25  | Your Show of Shows | NBC |
March 9  | Space Patrol | ABC |
March 19  | Windy City Jamboree | DuMont  |
March 23  | Beat the Clock | CBS  |
April  | Adventure Playhouse | DuMont  |
April  | Screen Mystery | DuMont |
April 5  | Joey Faye's Frolics | CBS |
April 6  | The Alan Young Show | CBS |
April 9  | Starlit Time | DuMont |
April 15[2][3] | Buck Rogers  | ABC |
April 19  | Stage 13 | CBS |
April 29  | The Trap | CBS  |
May  | Frontier Theatre | DuMont |
May 21  | Mama Rosa | ABC  |
May 29  | Broadway Open House | NBC |
June 6[4] | Armstrong Circle Theatre | NBC |
June 17  | Hawkins Falls | NBC  |
July 1  | Big Top | CBS |
July 3  | Visit with the Armed Forces | DuMont  |
July 3  | The Hazel Scott Show | DuMont |
July 4  | The Joan Edwards Show | DuMont  |
July 4  | Sure as Fate | CBS |
July 7  | Detective's Wife | CBS  |
July 10  | Your Hit Parade | NBC  | Migrated from radio
July 11[5] | The Web | CBS |
July 23[6] | The Gene Autry Show | CBS |
July 29  | Country Style | DuMont  |
August 1[7] | Crusader Rabbit | First-run Syndication |
August 6  | Rhythm Rodeo | DuMont  |
August 27  | Hold That Camera | DuMont  |
September 2  | Star Time | DuMont  |
The Twinkle in Your Eye | DuMont  |
Chez Paree Revue | DuMont  |
September 5  | The Cisco Kid | First-run Syndication |
September 6  | Stars Over Hollywood | NBC  | First television series produced by Revue Productions
September 7  | Truth or Consequences | CBS  | Migrated from radio
September 10  | The Colgate Comedy Hour | NBC  |
September 11[8] | The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican | ABC |
September 11  | Dick Tracy | ABC |
September 11[9] | Treasury Men in Action | ABC |
September 18  | The Speidel Show | NBC  | Later retitled The Paul Winchell Show
September 21 [10] | The Nash Airflyte Theater | CBS |
September 26[11] | Danger | CBS |
October  | Eloise Salutes the Stars | DuMont  |
October 2[12] | Lux Video Theatre | CBS |
October 2  | The Susan Raye Show | DuMont |
October 2  | Tom Corbett, Space Cadet | CBS |
October 3  | Beulah | ABC |
October 3[13] | The Billy Rose Show | ABC |
October 4[14] | Four Star Revue | NBC  |
October 4  | You Bet Your Life | NBC  | Migration from radio
October 5  | Big Town | CBS  | Migration from radio
October 6  | Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | ABC |
October 7  | Saturday Night at the Garden | DuMont |
October 7  | The Frank Sinatra Show | CBS |
October 10[15][16] | Prudential Family Playhouse | CBS |
October 12 [17]: 280–281 | The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | CBS | Migration from radio
October 15[18] | The Gabby Hayes Show | NBC |
October 18[19] | Somerset Maugham TV Theatre | CBS |
October 18  | The Most Important People | DuMont |
October 19  | The Adventures of Ellery Queen | DuMont |
October 21  | The Stu Erwin Show | ABC |
October 22  | Our Secret Weapon: The Truth | DuMont |
October 28[20] | The Jack Benny Program | CBS | Migration from radio
November 4  | Your Story Theatre | DuMont |
December 4  | The First Hundred Years | CBS  |
December 10  | The Bigelow Theatre | CBS |
December 22  | Charlie Wild, Private Detective | CBS |
December 29  | You Asked for It | DuMont |

### Change in Network Affiliation

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Show  | Moved from  | Moved to

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The Arthur Murray Party | ABC  | Dumont
The Johns Hopkins Science Review | CBS  | Dumont
The Bigelow Theatre | CBS  | Dumont

### Ending this year

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Date  | Show  | Network  | Debut  | Notes

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January 2  | And Everything Nice | DuMont  | March 15, 1949  |
January 3  | The Sonny Kendis Show | CBS  | April 18, 1949  |
January 10  | The O'Neills | DuMont  | September 6, 1949  |
January 26  | The Front Page | CBS  | September 29, 1949  |
February 4  | Spin the Picture | DuMont | June 4, 1949  |
March 11  | Mary Kay and Johnny | NBC  | 1947  | Series began on DuMont
March 25  | Television Theatre | CBS  | June 2, 1950  |
March 29  | Abe Burrows' Almanac | CBS  | January 4, 1950  |
March 30  | The Black Robe | NBC | May 18, 1949  |
April 9  | Bowling Headliners | DuMont  | December 26, 1948 (on ABC)  |
April 12  | Joey Faye's Frolics | CBS | April 5, 1950  |
April 21  | The Little Revue | ABC | September 4, 1949  |
May  | Adventure Playhouse | DuMont | April 1950  |
May 22  | Newsweek Views the News | DuMont  | November 7, 1948  |
June 11  | Mama Rosa | ABC  | May 21, 1950  |
June 14  | Easy Aces | DuMont  | December 14, 1949  |
June 18  | Windy City Jamboree | DuMont | March 19, 1950  |
June 23  | Actors Studio | CBS  | September 26, 1948  |
June 24  | The Trap | CBS  | April 29, 1950  |
June 25  | Colgate Theatre | NBC  | January 3, 1949  |
June 26  | The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre | NBC | September 27, 1948  |
June 28  | Stage 13 | CBS | April 19, 1950  |
July 4  | The Ed Wynn Show | CBS | September 22, 1949
August 11  | People's Platform | CBS | August 17, 1948
September  | Frontier Theatre | DuMont | May  |
September 29  | The Hazel Scott Show | DuMont | July 3, 1950  |
September 29  | Detective's Wife | CBS  | July 7, 1950  |
October 8  | Think Fast | ABC | March 26, 1949  |
October 13  | The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican | ABC | September 11, 1950  |
October 15  | Believe It or Not! | DuMont | March 1, 1949  |
October 23  | Mysteries of Chinatown | ABC  | December 4, 1949  |
October 24  | The Joan Edwards Show | DuMont | July 4, 1950  |
November 19  | Starlit Time | DuMont | April 9, 1950  |
November 20  | The Susan Raye Show | DuMont | October 2, 1950  |
November 25  | Country Style | DuMont | July 29, 1950  |
December 1  | TV Shopper | DuMont | November 1, 1948  |
December 15  | Hold That Camera | DuMont | August 27, 1950  |
Unknown date  | Cartoon Teletales | ABC  | 1948  |
The Vincent Lopez Show | DuMont  | March 7, 1949  | Returned in 1957 on CBS
Amateur Boxing Fight Club | DuMont  | September 1949  |
Boxing from Sunnyside Gardens | DuMont  | September 1949  |
You Are an Artist | NBC  | May 13, 1946  |
Your Witness | ABC  | September 19, 1949  |
Chez Paree Revue | DuMont | September 2, 1950  |

## Television stations

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### Station launches

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Date  | City of License/Market | Station | Channel  | Affiliation  | Notes/Ref.

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February 15  | San Antonio, Texas | KEYL | 5  | CBS (primary)
DuMont/Paramount/ABC (secondary)  | [21]
Syracuse, New York | WSYR-TV | 3  | NBC |
February 21  | Ames/Des Moines, Iowa | WOI-TV | 5  | CBS (primary)
NBC (secondary)  |
March 27  | Louisville, Kentucky | WHAS-TV | 9
(now 11)  | CBS (primary)
ABC (secondary)  | [22]
April 2  | Norfolk, Virginia | WTAR-TV | 3  | NBC (primary)
ABC/DuMont (secondary)  |
May 1  | Lansing, Michigan | WJIM-TV | 6  | CBS (primary)
NBC/ABC/DuMont (secondary)  |
July 1  | Rock Island/Moline, Illinois
Bettendorf/Davenport, Iowa | WHBF-TV | 4  | CBS (primary)
NBC/DuMont (secondary)  |
July 9  | Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids, Michigan | WKZO-TV | 3  | CBS (primary)
NBC/ABC/DuMont (secondary)  |
September 30  | Nashville, Tennessee | WSM-TV | 4  | NBC (primary)
ABC/CBS/DuMont (secondary)  |

### Network affiliation changes

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Date  | City of license/Market  | Station  | Channel  | Old affiliation  | New affiliation  | Notes/Ref.

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Unknown date  | Dallas, Texas | KBTV | 8  | DuMont | NBC |

## Births

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Main article: 1950 in television § Births

## Deaths

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Main article: 1950 in television § Deaths

## References

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1. ^ Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 – Present (Seventh Edition), Ballantine Books, 1999, page 866.
2. ^ Garyn G. Roberts, in Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne (.ed) The Guide To United States Popular Culture. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001. ISBN 0879728213 (p.120)
3. ^ "Buck Rogers -". Buck Rogers. Archived from the original on February 4, 2005. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
4. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. pp. 56–57\. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
5. ^ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 1286\. ISBN 0-345-45542-8.
6. ^ Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 189–192\. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.
7. ^ "Debunking The Myths: Crusader Rabbit and Walt Disney" Cartoon Research
8. ^ "Paddy the Pelican". TV Acres. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
9. ^ "Debuts, Highlights, Changes (Continued)". Ross Reports on Television including The Television Index. September 10, 1950. p. 2. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
10. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 20\. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
11. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 196\. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
12. ^ Lux Video Theatre (PDF). Radio-TV Mirror. October 1951. pp. 46–49. Retrieved 29 January 2012. (PDF)
13. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 147\. ISBN 9780307483201. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
14. ^ "Four Star/All Star Revue". www.classictvinfo.com. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
15. ^ Kear, Lynn; Rossman, John (2008). The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances. McFarland. p. 15\. ISBN 978-0-786-43198-4.
16. ^ "CBS-TV Drama Folds, Licked By M. Berle". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. February 24, 1951. p. 4\. ISSN 0006-2510.
17. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (June 24, 2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present (Ninth ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. p. 526\. ISBN 978-0-3074-8320-1. Retrieved October 29, 2022.
18. ^ Wilborn Hampton, Horton Foote: America’s Storyteller, page 106 - 107, Free Press, 2009
19. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 1269\. ISBN 978-0-307-48320-1. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
20. ^ Green, David B. (2014-10-28). "This Day in Jewish History // 1950: Jack Benny Takes Act to TV, Grumbling All the Way". Haaretz.
21. ^ "Hollywood shows on KEYL". San Antonio Light. February 19, 1950. p. 54.
22. ^ "WHAS-TV bows; second Louisville outlet." Broadcasting – Telecasting. March 27, 1950, pg. 68.

## External links

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* List of 1950 American television series at IMDb

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