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  • PBSPBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, signed on the air on the 5th of October 1970, and almost immediately found itself doing something none of the big…
  • NPRNPR went on the air for the first time on the 20th of April 1971, broadcasting live Senate hearings about the Vietnam War.
  • Frank SinatraFrancis Albert Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds when he was born on the 12th of December 1915, in a tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.
  • BBC Radio 4The first broadcast from station 2LO began on the 14th of November 1922 in London. It started with a power output of just 100 watts and operated at a…
  • HBOHBO launched at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on the 8th of November 1972, and its very first broadcast was a hockey game. The New York Rangers faced the Vancouver…
  • ESPNESPN launched on the 7th of September 1979 with a single broadcast reaching 1.4 million cable subscribers across the United States.
  • Johnny CarsonJohnny Carson stepped in front of a camera for the last time as host of The Tonight Show on the 22nd of May 1992, and three decades of American nights ended.
  • Stephen ColbertStephen Colbert walked to the podium at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, stood a few yards from President George W.
  • The New York TimesThe New York Times has been called "The Gray Lady" for as long as anyone can remember, a nickname that nods to the color of newsprint and to the paper's…
  • The Washington PostThe Washington Post has its own ZIP Code. That single fact captures something essential about a newspaper so embedded in the geography and politics of the…
  • Jim HensonJim Henson made his first Kermit the Frog from a halved table tennis ball and fabric cut from an old coat that belonged to his mother.
  • CNNCNN launched at exactly 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the 1st of June, 1980, and nothing in television news was quite the same afterward.
  • Bing CrosbyBing Crosby's recording of "White Christmas" has sold over 50 million copies worldwide, making it the bestselling single of all time.
  • History ChannelOn the 1st of January 1995, the History Channel opened its doors to American audiences. The network began as a joint venture between A&E Television Networks…
  • Voice of AmericaVoice of America began its existence on the 1st of February, 1942, with a pledge that would define it for decades. The first broadcast to Germany opened with…
  • CBSCBS traces its roots not to television but to a small radio venture launched on the 27th of January 1927 by a New York City talent agent named Arthur Judson.
  • CBS NewsIn 1929, the Columbia Broadcasting System began making regular radio news broadcasts. These were five-minute summaries taken from reports supplied by United…
  • Walter CronkiteWalter Cronkite took off his glasses, glanced at the clock, and told a watching nation that President Kennedy had died at 1 p.m.
  • BBC NewsBBC News first went on air on the 14th of November 1922, when a radio announcer at station 2LO read those now-famous words: "This is London calling.
  • CNBCCNBC traces its origins not to a gleaming television studio, but to a low-budget satellite channel broadcasting old movies and instructional programs.
  • LucasfilmGeorge Lucas established Lucasfilm on the 10th of December 1971 in San Rafael, California. The company began with just five employees working out of a small…
  • Metropolitan OperaThe Metropolitan Opera opened on the 22nd of October 1883, not because New York needed another opera house, but because the city's newly wealthy…
  • NHKNHK, Japan's statutory public broadcaster, carries a history stretching back to a radio station founded in 1924 under Count Gotō Shinpei.
  • BBC TelevisionJohn Logie Baird set up the Baird Television Development Company in 1926. On the 30th of September 1929, he made the first experimental television broadcast…
  • BBCThe BBC launched the world's first broadcast listings magazine, Radio Times, in September 1923. The first edition cost tuppence on newsstands and sold out…
  • Walter LippmannWalter Lippmann was born on the Upper East Side of New York City on the 23rd of September 1889, and by the time he died eighty-five years later, he had done…