Television Under The Swastika - The History Of Nazi Television

[MADem]

9. This is the television my family's (wealthy) friend had.

NYC, late thirties.

FWIW, news programs started much earlier than the 1960s--one pioneer in this regard was Edward R. Murrow, who transitioned from radio.

Here's an early news program from Chicago, 1949--a lot about cars in this broadcast, and the newsreader gets very personal, too:

Of course, ERM was doing "See It Now" in the very early years of commercial tv--here's one report he did about TV in the early fifties (it's two parts, this is just part one but you can get the 2nd section at YT):

And this is arguably his most famous one (part one, two more parts at YT):

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