Howdy Doody was an American children’s television program with circus and Western frontier themes that was telecast on the NBC network from December 27, 1947,

The sitcom was a 30-minute format featuring a continuing cast of characters that appeared in the same setting week after week. Audience laughter (either live

Television and vaudeville combined to create the form of entertainment known as the variety show. Variety shows were made up of short acts — musical

From television’s emergence as a national medium in the late 1940s through the early 1960s, much dramatic programming was broadcast live. A staple of such

The soap opera is the open-ended serial narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap

In 1954, Congress added the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, and the phrase “In God We Trust” was included on all U.S.

Peale, who served as the pastor of Marble Collegiate Church, New York, from 1932 until 1984, was best known as the author of the best-selling

Fulton J. Sheen was an American bishop (later archbishop) of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio.

Billy Graham, often called ‘America’s pastor,’ was an American evangelist, a prominent evangelical Christian figure, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister, who became well-known internationally

Although the history of sports on U.S. television is synonymous with the history of network television, in the early days of television, local sports broadcasts predominated over