John became a painter and illustrator ; Richard was an actor in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and later an Emmy-nominated television director of such shows as The Beverly Hillbillies.

Cheers, however, eventually became a highly rated television show in the United States, earning a top-ten rating during 8 of its 11 seasons, including one season at # 1.

" became widely heard on British television for the first time.

Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services in 1949.

The Unitarian Service Committee of Canada, founded in 1945, was receiving considerable attention both in city newspapers and on television, so much so that the word “ Unitarian ” became a household world, though its meaning was not that widely known.

Upon her husband's death on April 20, 1968, Day learned that he had committed her to a television series, which became The Doris Day Show.

When he became successful in television, he kept the orchestra on his payroll, and Rizo arranged and orchestrated the music for I Love Lucy.

She became familiar to a new generation of film-goers when she played Principal McGee in both 1978's Grease and 1982's Grease 2, as well as making appearances on such television shows as Alice, Maude and Falcon Crest.

Afterwards it became the only Godzilla film to receive a television premiere on a major U. S network, as NBC aired it on prime time television in the summer of 1977, where it was hosted by actor John Belushi dressed in a Godzilla costume.

Florence Jean Castleberry (" Flo ") on the television series Alice became a waitress at Mel's Diner in Phoenix, Arizona, a roadside diner run by one Mel Sharples.

In 1976, Powers ' biography ( written with Curt Gentry ) became a television movie, Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident.

He produced scenes for the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Flying Circus that month, the last time he would appear on television, but he became ill again on 1 October.

Over the course of the 1950s, as television began to pervade the popular culture, game shows quickly became a fixture.

During the second half of the 20th century, the sound of the harpsichord ( or perhaps rather more often, its electronically created equivalent ) became very familiar in popular culture, appearing frequently in popular music, television, films, computer games, and so on.

Hearst began acquiring radio stations in the 1920s, and in 1948, he became the owner of one of the first television stations in the country, WBAL-TV in Baltimore.

The so-called " divulgationism ", a simple way of sharing scientific concepts, was soon employed in other disciplines and became one of the most important characteristics of modern television broadcasting.

When creators became aware of this problem, karaoke machines were no longer being sold strictly for the purpose of karaoke but as home theater systems to enhance television watching to " movie theater like quality ".

Kid Rock became the first musician to play in a recorded concert for television at Elvis Presley's Graceland on November 28, 2011 when PBS taped an episode for their Live from the Artists Den.

Astro Boy quickly became ( and remains ) immensely popular in Japan and elsewhere, and the anime adaptation of Sazae-san drawing more viewers than any other anime on Japanese television in 2011.

By purchasing broadcast rights to Douglas Gayeton's machinima documentary Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator in September 2007, HBO became the first television network to buy a work created completely in a virtual world.

" He participated in a lively television debate on August 31, 1984 with socialist intellectuals, including Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who later became the president of Iceland.

Lloyd later got the opportunity to develop the idea that became the satirical BBC television series Not the Nine O ' clock News.

The premise of the single working woman's life, alternating during the program between work and home, became a television staple.

During one of his few drum solo performances on television, Moon filled clear acrylic drums with water and goldfish, and dressed as a cat.

Later television series were Professor Vreemdeling ( 1977 ) about a strange professor who wants to make plants speak and Zeeuws Meisje ( 1997 ) a nationalistic post-apocalyptic series where the Netherlands has been built full of housing and the highways are filled with traffic jams.

Dramatic images of Birmingham police using dogs and powerful streams of water against children protesters filled newspapers and television coverage, arousing national outrage.

He remained as a director of his sports marketing company, Gemba, and his role on the television program On The Couch was filled by retired Sydney coach, Paul Roos.

Hagin, now with the New York Mets, moved over to television, and his spot was filled by one of Buck's protégés, former Chicago White Sox announcer John Rooney.

Cliffhangers were especially popular in 1920s and 1930s serials when movie theaters filled the cultural niche now primarily occupied by television.

Several months before ABC began broadcasting NCAA college football games, Arledge sent Scherick a remarkable memo, filled with youthful exuberance, and television production concepts which sports broadcasts have adhered to since.

Current television shows are filled with parodies such as South Park, Family Guy, and the Simpsons.

These features originally filled a 90-minute broadcast programming time slot ( including television commercials ), later expanded to two hours, and were usually broadcast as a weekly anthology television series ( for example, the ABC Movie of the Week ).

Dougie Anderson also provided reports ( often from a record shop near the studio ); filled in when another presenter was off ; and helped with the daily television review.

* In developed countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, the financial imperatives of commercial television broadcasting mean that air-time is now typically filled with programmes and commercials ( such as infomercials ) 24 hours a day, and non-commercial broadcasters have to match this.

Poor ratings caused this experiment to be dropped after one season, with MNF once again moving to 9 p. m. in, though in many NFL markets, the 8pm ET hour from 1999 until 2006 was replaced by affiliates with locally-produced sports discussion and coaches shows programmed locally, with ABC programming in that hour moved to late night or weekend slots ; by the end of the ABC run, the 8pm timeslot was filled with either newsmagazines and short-lived reality television programs which failed to make any ratings headways due to affiliate pre-emptions.

A new exit from Roppongi Station empties into a glass atrium filled with large television screens and escalators, as well as several shops and restaurants.

The holes in the piece were filled with a variety of works, such as the television theme from Star Trek.

By early 1990, numerous other stations also appeared on the air, including New Channel ( no relation to Nea Tileorasi ) with movies, music videos and talk shows, Channel Seven-X ( with avant-garde programming including foreign films, intellectual programming and a simulcast of French music network MCM ), Jeronimo Groovy TV ( initially a popular music video station that broadcast in Athens, amidst serious interference from other stations ), TeleCity ( a right-wing political television station with news and talk shows ), 902 TV ( owned by the Communist Party of Greece ), Kanali 29 ( a television station with political and cultural programs and a cult following ), and a plethora of other broadcasters, which filled every available VHF and UHF frequency, often broadcasting only for several weeks or months, or with very little programming of note.

In a television commercial reminiscent of Nichol from the 1980s, Weston presented two shopping carts, one filled with No Name items and the other with comparable national brands to show how consumers could save on their grocery bills.

In the event that a Public-access television channel becomes filled with programming, a franchise may state that more television channels may be added to satisfy the demand.

Pasadena's distinctive domed City Hall has doubled as a courthouse or capitol building in countless television commercials and movies, and its South Lake shopping district filled in for Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills Ninja.

* Takeshi Doll — During a prolonged period when Takeshi was forbidden to appear on television ( his " punishment " for an act of violence against reporters and photos from a scandal magazine ), one of the Emerald Guards filled in by wearing his robe and a giant papier-mâché Takeshi head similar to the ones sports team mascots use over their heads.

LaMarche's childhood was filled with his " own little world of cartoons and sixties television ".

These services are also commonly devoid of traditional commercial advertising with programs uninterrupted by television commercials, instead breaks are inserted between programs that typically are filled with promotions for upcoming programs and special behind-the-scenes features ; although some sports-based pay services do feature commercial advertising, mainly if they simulcast sporting events broadcast by advertiser-supported television networks.