[Young Werther]

Uncle Miltee was called "Mr Televison" for one very important reason. In 1929 the first TV broadcast was made and a young Milton Berle was the subject!

We got our first TV in 1948. I lived in the NY metropolitan area, (north Joisey) and we could see the TV antennae on the Empire State bldg. Sid Caesar, Amos and Andy and of course Captain Midnight, Captain Video and Tom Corbett Space Cadets. Those made me the space geek that I am today.

Then there was Superman and Howdy Doody! Wowser

[nomorelurker]

Tom Corbett Space Cadets. I never knew there was a TV show on that. I just read from that character/story line I don’t know how many cheap novels from the library. It was a major competitor of Tom Swift stories.

[JoJo Gunn]

Uncle Miltee was called "Mr Televison" for one very important reason. In 1929 the first TV broadcast was made and a young Milton Berle was the subject!

It wasn't "the" first broadcast. That would have to be credited to J.L. Baird.

During his multi-faceted rise as a performer, Milton Berle first appeared on television in a 1929 experimental broadcast in Chicago, when he emceed a closed-circuit telecast before 129 people.

He actually made his television debut in 1929 in Chicago, he noted in his autobiography, at the request of F. A. Sanabria, the owner of the United States Television Corporation. Mr. Berle estimated he was seen by perhaps a dozen people who had television sets.

 

 

[mathluv]

I lived in West Texas. We did not have TV until I was in high school. I remember watching a Thanksgiving or New Years Day Parade in the first color tv in town - just a bunch of colored dots! It was 80 miles to the closest station.

If anyone wants to get really nostalgic, how about the old radio shows. I remember gathering around the radio, and listening to 'The Shadow Knows', The Life of Riley', and Fibber McGee's Closet'.