* 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

The first programme to air on the channel was the teatime game show Countdown, at 16: 45 produced by Yorkshire Television ; it is still running as of 2012.

Granada Television commissioned only 13 episodes and some inside the company doubted the show would last its planned production run.

The extent to which drug addiction was now affecting Bowie was made public when Russell Harty interviewed the singer for his London Weekend Television talk show in anticipation of the album's supporting tour.

Television critics gave the new show and its host poor reviews.

The show also aired on RTÉ Two in Ireland, and in Australia on Nine Network ( season 1 ) and ABC Television ( seasons 2 and 3 ).

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray.

Color Television was introduced to the game show genre in the late 1960s on all three networks.

* Intelligence ( TV series ), a Canadian television show running on CBC Television

Their show grew quickly until it was carried by close to a hundred stations, with average viewers numbering over twelve million, and the Bakkers had established their own network, The PTL Television Network ( also known as PTL-The Inspirational Network ).

Because of the controversial format and content of the show, distributor MCA Television had problems selling the show to a number of stations and advertisers.

Gould was also on the Board of Advisers to the influential Children's Television Workshop television show, 3-2-1 Contact, where he made frequent guest appearances.

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The show was created while Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein were working on Danger Man, an espionage show produced by Incorporated Television Company ( also called ITC Entertainment ).

Television shows such as Urban Legends, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and later Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed feature re-enactments of urban legends detailing the accounts of the tales and ( typically ) later in the show, these programs reveal any factual basis they may have.

The former show was produced by Paramount Television, while the latter two were produced by 20th Century Fox Television.

Warner Bros. Television provided the ABC with a weekly show, Warner Bros. Presents ; the show featured a rotating series of shows based on three of the studio's film successes, Kings Row, Casablanca and Cheyenne, followed by a promotion for one of Warner's big screen films.

Two dramas produced by Spelling Television, 7th Heaven and Charmed also helped bring The WB into the spotlight, with " Charmed " lasting eight seasons and being the longest running drama with female leads and " 7th Heaven " surviving eleven seasons and being the longest running family drama and longest running show for The WB.

* August 5 – American Bandstand, a local dance show produced by WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, joins the ABC Television Network.

is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television.

The popular British Television show Doctor Who featured the Transcontinental Railroad in a BBC audio book entitled The Runaway Train, read by Matt Smith and written for audio by Oli Smith.

Some of the biggest telecommunications companies, TV and radio stations, newspapers, magazines, and web portals are based in Sofia, including the Bulgarian National Television, bTV and Nova TV.

Television House also acts as a base for ITV SignPost, Britain's biggest supplier of British Sign Language ( BSL ) services for television, video, CD-ROM, DVD, film and the Internet.

In early December, introduced TVE Spanish Television Anniversary of ' 50 ' where Rose gave a tribute to the biggest ' Rocío Jurado ', singing the song " like a wave ," at the end of that month and in the same television network a special gala was held to select the best album of 2006 15 Records 15 singers, the audience, with their calls, I chose to feel alive, as the best album of the year with a rate of 27 % after one year at the gala ' Disco of the year 2007 ', held on 26 December that year, collected the ' Best album of 2006 ' ( I feel alive ).

Ironically, according to Parker's Archive of American Television interview, Ford had originally wanted to cast Parker in Hunter's role in The Searchers but Disney refused to loan him out and Parker didn't hear about until years later ; Parker referred to his loss of that part to Jeffrey Hunter as his single biggest career setback.

More often than not, these female characters are vital to their respective shows, and inevitably become some of the biggest stars in British Television.

It spawned their biggest single, " Don't Walk Past ", and its companion video, which won awards including " Best Video of 1983 " from the Canadian Film and Television Association.

He founded the Lai Sun Group ( 麗新集團 ), and his family was the biggest shareholder of Asia Television ( ATV ).

Moving back to the Mid-South region in 1986 ( which had since broken away from the NWA and been renamed the Universal Wrestling Federation, or UWF ), Taylor became one of the promotion's biggest stars and defeated Buzz Sawyer for the UWF Television Championship in May.

In 2010, she was the Honoree of France Black Art Awards broadcasted on France Television Group, she was the first recipient of the Art and Media Prize of the Gotha Noir de France ( France Black Who ’ s Who ) and in December 2010, she was honored at the Women ’ s Gala of 3rd World Black Arts Festival of Culture in Senegal, the biggest African Festival ever.

His biggest success as an entertainer was unquestionably the show Hylands hörna (" Hyland's corner "), that aired from 1962 on Sveriges Television.

Respect was a ground breaking seven part documentary television series featuring some of the biggest names in British sport and was broadcast each Sunday at 5. 00pm on Central Independent Television during November / December 1995.

Earlier in 1961, a Television Audience Measurement ( TAM ) showed that 75 % of available viewers ( 15 million ) tuned into Corrie and by 1964 the programme had over 20 million regular viewers, with ratings peaking on 2 December 1964, at 21. 36 million viewers.

Television ratings for Super Bowl XLIV ( 44 ) were the highest for any TV program, sports or otherwise, in history, as their successful bid to win the Super Bowl was seen by many to represent the city's resurgence after the devastating Hurricane Katrina

ITV was accused of engineering this in order to damage the final episode's expected high ratings, but was later cleared by the Independent Television Commission.

The series premiered on National Educational Television ( NET ) stations on November 10, 1969 to positive reviews, some controversy, and high ratings.

The network's desire to produce more of its own shows at its new studios at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, coupled with the poor ratings, caused production of You Can't Do That on Television to officially end in 1990 after only five episodes were made ( tying 1990 with 1987 as the shortest season of the series ).

The network would continue to have an association with Paramount Television in the 1970s, however — many of its television programs would come from Paramount, and most of the shows would bring ABC great success in the ratings.

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's devotional program Life Is Worth Living went up against Milton Berle in many cities, and was the first show to compete successfully in the ratings against " Mr. Television ".

According to Japan's Weekly The Television magazine, the viewer ratings of Zeta Gundam averaged 6. 6 % and peaked at 11. 7 % during its original run.

Much like its competitor UPN, the WB Television Network was a reaction primarily to new FCC deregulation of media ownership rules that repealed fin-syn, and partly to the success of the upstart Fox and first-run syndicated programming during the late 1980s and early 1990s such as Baywatch, Star Trek: The Next Generation and War of the Worlds, as well as the erosion in ratings suffered by independent television stations due to the growth of cable television and movie rentals.

The Naked Civil Servant won a British Academy Television Award ( BAFTA ) for its star John Hurt as well as a Broadcasting Press Guild Award and a prize at the Prix Italia ; Rock Follies won a BAFTA and a Royal Television Society Award, while Widows also gained BAFTA nominations and ratings of over 12 million — unusually for a drama serial, it picked up viewers over the course of its six-week run.

Another example is The CW Television Network show, CW Now, which received two 0. 0 ratings in the same season.

The show got very high TRPs for Sony Entertainment Television and according to reports, the show helped Sony TV regain its third position in the Indian television ratings.

* 2008 — ANT1 Group sold the Bulgarian Nova Television station to Swedish-based Modern Times Group for € 620 million, thus securing a crucial line of credit for its distressed core business that experienced fallen ratings in the 2007 — 2008 season.

The BBC Television Service ( renamed " BBC tv " in 1960 ) showed popular programming, including drama, comedies, documentaries, game shows, and soap operas, covering a wide range of genres and regularly competed with ITV to become the channel with the highest ratings for that week.

The series brought in fairly good ratings for the CBC and it was expected the show would be renewed for a second season ; however, the show was cancelled after the Canadian Television Fund's budget was cut by the federal government and CBC could only afford to keep its more popular shows, like Royal Canadian Air Farce, on the air.

* Sesame Park, a Canadian spin-off of the American show Sesame Street, is cancelled due to low ratings, after more than three decades of airing on CBC Television.

At first the station struggled financially, due to disappointing ratings in the countries in which it was officially available, which in turn led to insufficient advertising revenue and increasing difficulty in covering the high transmission costs, and by the second half of 1983, the station's ex-ITV management realised that they " could not capture Europe on the budget of Border Television ", and put up the majority of the station's shares ( approximately 65 %, subsequently increased to 82 %) for sale.

Television channels use their own discretion to decide the ratings.

In 1958, near the start of the BBC / ITV ratings wars, he rejoined the BBC as Head of Television Light Entertainment.

However Thames Television had a ratings winner ( as well as excellent overseas sales ) and insisted he continue the programme, albeit in smaller seasons from now on.

Television ratings for game seven soared as one of the highest watched in NBC's history for a non-finals game.

The second ratings survey of 2006 placed WIN Television with a 34. 7 % commercial audience share in prime time, compared to the Golden West Network with 65. 3 %.

CKVU started broadcasting a VHF signal on channel 10 on February 13, 1985, which improved the station's coverage and ratings ( channel 10 was originally reserved for a proposed CBC Television station in Victoria, but that station never went on the air due to lack of funds, clearing the way for CKVU to switch its channel position ).