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THE JAZZ SINGER: The first words ever spoken in a movie were, “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!”
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The first television broadcasts. (UK.)
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Mary Kay and Johnny. (had its 3 year anniversary 1 year before the premiere of I Love Lucy.)
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In 1948, a radio debate was held in Oregon between Thomas E. Dewey and Harold Stassen, Republican primary candidates for president.
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KEX-ABC Radio Station
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The Zenith Phonevision system became the first pay-per-view system tested in the United States of America. Developed in 1949, it used telephone lines to take and receive orders as well as to de-scramble a broadcast signal.
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CBS broadcasts the first color program.
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Bing Crosby Enterprises (BCE), gave the world's first demonstration of a videotape recording in Los Angeles on November 11, 1951.
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Color broadcasting officially arrives in the U.S. on Dec. 17, when FCC approves modified version of an RCA system.
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First came The Morning Show (1954–1956)
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The Paul Mall Cigarettes commercial was the first color commercial.
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WMAQ-TV.
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Sometimes A Great Notion is a 1970 American drama film directed by Paul Newman. First launch of HBO.
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The result was the DVD specification Version 1.0, announced in 1995 and finalized in September 1996.
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The MiniDV was the first introduced in 1998. It allows you to record 1 hour of video on a cassette about the size of a box of tic-tacs.
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Sony was the first to introduce this format in 1999. It is backwardly compatible, meaning that the new Digital8 camcorders and VCR's will also play 8MM and Hi8 tapes.
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Sony rocked the digital camera world with the introduction of the first CD-R-based digicam technology. An extension of Sony's floppy-disk-based Mavica design, the CD1000 incorporated a CD-R drive as its image recording mechanism, storing 156MB of data on each 80mm (roughly 3-inch) CD-R disc.
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