For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented.
On December 27, 1947 a genial thirty-year-old man with wavy dark hair and a broad smile, wearing a fringed cowboy shirt and a bolo tie, looked into a television camera at WNBC Studio 3A in Rockefeller Center and called out,
"Say kids, what time is it?"
Across the stage, about 40 children between the ages of 4 and 10 responded enthusiastically...
"It's Howdy Doody Time!"
Children's programming had arrived on television.
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Visit: 100 Years of Television
Read: The Boy Who Invented Television
