Broadcasters
This longtime host of The Tonight Show became one of the most famous personalities in American television history.
Who is Johnny Carson?
This 1969 achievement gave television viewers the chance to watch Neil Armstrong take “one small step.”
What is the Moon landing?
This NFL championship has become America's largest annual television event.
What is the Super Bowl?
This federal agency regulates American radio and over-the-air television broadcasting.
What is the FCC?
This Pittsburgh station is closely associated with the beginning of regular commercial radio broadcasting in 1920.
What is KDKA?
This broadcaster counted down America's most popular songs for decades on American Top 40.
Who is Casey Kasem?
This long-running variety show famously introduced American television audiences to Elvis Presley and later The Beatles.
What is The Ed Sullivan Show?
Vin Scully spent most of his legendary broadcasting career calling games for this baseball team.
Who are the Dodgers?
A local television station carrying programs from NBC, CBS, ABC, or Fox is known by this term.
What is an affiliate?
This advertising-supported program format earned its name from the soap manufacturers that sponsored daytime dramas.
What is the soap opera?
This television journalist became the first woman to co-anchor a major network evening news program.
Who is Barbara Walters?
This 1981 wedding between this British Monarch and his future wife became one of the world's largest televised events.
What is the wedding of Charles and Diana?
This ABC program, introduced with the phrase “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat,” debuted in 1961.
What is Wide World of Sports?
NBC once operated Red and Blue radio networks. The Blue Network eventually became this modern network.
What is ABC?
This technology allowed cable networks to distribute programming efficiently across enormous distances beginning in the 1970s.
What are communications satellites?
This pioneering television journalist hosted See It Now and signed off with “Good night, and good luck.”
Who is Edward R. Murrow?
In 1986, millions saw this NASA shuttle disaster unfold shortly after launch.
What is the Challenger disaster?
This 1938 match race between two famous horses attracted a huge national radio audience.
What is Seabiscuit versus War Admiral?
This 1996 law dramatically relaxed U.S. radio ownership restrictions and helped accelerate media consolidation.
What is the Telecommunications Act of 1996?
This 1980 network changed television news by offering it 24 hours a day.
What is CNN?
Known as “the most trusted man in America,” this CBS anchor covered events including the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and the Moon landing.
Who is Walter Cronkite?
The 1953 coronation of this British monarch helped accelerate television adoption in the United Kingdom.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
The first Super Bowl, played in 1967, was broadcast simultaneously by these two television networks.
What are NBC and CBS?
This forgotten television network competed against NBC, CBS, and ABC before shutting down in 1955.
What is DuMont?
The 2009 U.S. television transition ended most full-power broadcasting using this older type of signal.
What is analog television?