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.
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In 1904, New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs moved the newspaper's headquarters into the newly constructed Times Tower at the intersection of Broadway, Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan, which the city renamed "Times Square."
To celebrate the move the Times sponsored a lavish New Year's celebration. Some 200,000 New Yorkers packed the square and surrounding streets for music and festivities that were topped off with a brilliant fireworks display.
When the city banned fireworks in 1907, Ochs commissioned a 700-pound wood-and-iron ball, festooned with one hundred 25-watt light bulbs. At precisely 11:59 PM on December 31, 1907, workers started to lower the ball from the top of a pole. At midnight the ball went dark and another large electrical sign reading “1908” lit up above Times Square.
In the 1920s and ’30s, Times Square became synonymous with New Year’s Eve. Starting in 1948, the tradition found its way to television.
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Read: The Boy Who Invented Television: https://amz.run/6ag1
