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In January 2003, Radio One and Comcast announced an agreement to a joint venture to create a television network aimed at African Americans aged 25 to 54. [7] TV One would launch on January 19, 2004, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and was positioned as an older-skewing competitor to BET. [8]
The A.C. Nielsen company, which continues to measure television ratings today, took over American radio's ratings beginning with the 1949–50 radio season and ending in 1955–56. [40] During this era, nearly all of radio's most popular programs were broadcast on one of three networks: NBC Red , NBC Blue , or CBS ' Columbia network.
Urban One. Urban One, Inc. (formerly Radio One) is a Silver Spring, Maryland -based American media conglomerate. Founded in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, the company primarily operates media properties targeting African Americans. It is the largest African-American-owned broadcasting company in the United States, currently operating over 50 radio stations.
X Minus One is an American half-hour science fiction radio drama series that was broadcast from April 24, 1955, to January 9, 1958, in various timeslots on NBC.Known for high production values in adapting stories from the leading American authors of the era, X Minus One has been described as one of the finest offerings of American radio drama and one of the best science fiction series in any ...
The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the United States from August 31, 1941 [ 1] to 1958. [ 3] Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, [ 4] it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. The series was built around Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy ...
The Cosby Show (The Carsey-Werner Company) Good Times (Sony Pictures Television) The Jeffersons (Sony Pictures Television) Living Single (Warner Bros Television) Sanford and Son (Sony Pictures Television)
3,256. One Man's Family is an American radio soap opera, heard for almost three decades, from 1932 to 1959. Created by Carlton E. Morse, it was the longest-running uninterrupted dramatic serial in the history of American radio. [ 1] Television versions of the series aired in prime time from 1949 to 1952 and in daytime from 1954 to 1955.
Duffy's Tavern is an American radio situation comedy that ran for a decade on several networks ( CBS, 1941–42; NBC-Blue Network, 1942–44; and NBC, 1944–51), concluding with the December 28, 1951, broadcast. The program often featured celebrity guest stars but always hooked them around the misadventures of Archie, the tavern's manager ...