RICHMOND, Va. -- The South's First Television Station, WTVR-TV, is celebrating the start of its 72nd year of broadcasting Wednesday, April 22, 2020. [Click here to enter the CBS 6 Video Vault] The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On October 16, 1949, ...

ST. LOUIS — For 77 years, KSDK-TV has been on your side. On Feb. 8, 1947, Channel 5, then known by the call letters KSD-TV, became the first television station to broadcast in St. Louis. It was one of ...

Corpus Christi residents got a big thrill on June 20, 1954: The city’s first television station went on the air. That’s not to say locals weren’t watching TV before then. TV antennae dotted the ...

WGPR-TV, the Detroit broadcast pioneer and first television station in the United States to be independently owned and operated by African Americans, is now officially a historic landmark. On Feb. 1, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- On the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 11, 1949, a one-hour program launched Pittsburgh's first television station, WDTV. That station was part of the DuMont Television Network. It ...

One summer day century ago, a crowd packed a second-floor office on Connecticut Avenue near Dupont Circle. The space held the labs of inventor Charles Jenkins, and people had come to watch a ...

After World War II there was a post war economic boom in America. Jobs were plentiful, pay was good, and for the first time ever, Americans had leisure time and extra money to spend in pursuit of the ...

Jamie Medhurst has received research funding from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the Leverhulme Trust. It was 90 years ago that a handful of amateur wireless ...