The " College Quiz Bowl " was broadcast on NBC radio from 1953 to 1955 ; General Electric College Bowl was televised on CBS and later NBC from 1959 to 1970, College Bowl returned to CBS radio 1979-82, and HCASC was broadcast on BET until 1995.

The first College Quiz Bowl match was played on NBC radio on October 10, 1953, when Northwestern University defeated Columbia University, 135-60.

NBC also aired The Red Foley Show from 1951 to 1961, and ABC Radio carried Ozark Jubilee from 1953 to 1961.

* Toscanini and NBC Symphony Orchestra ( 1953 ): Beethoven's Eroica, Third Movement

* Beethoven, Missa Solemnis, ( 1953 and 1940 NBC broadcast ) ( Only the 1953 version was released officially.

* Schubert, Symphony No. 9 ( Philadelphia, 1941 ; NBC 1947 and 1953 )

* September – NBC begins its long-running NBC Saturday Night at the Movies participating, with an airing of the 1953 Marilyn Monroe picture How to Marry a Millionaire.

* June 8 – Milton Berle becomes the first United States television star with the debut of Texaco Star Theater ( later The Milton Berle Show ) on NBC ( 1948 – 1953 ).

The format is based on the American show College Bowl, which ran on NBC radio from 1953 to 1957, and on NBC television from 1959 to 1970.

She was cast as prostitute Lorene Rogers in the 1979 NBC miniseries remake of the 1953 film From Here to Eternity.

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) settled on a color NTSC standard in 1953, and the NBC network began broadcasting a limited color television schedule in January, 1954.

The ABC / Dot headquarters became the Nashville office of ABC Records, a division of the American Broadcasting Company, which coincidentally had been bought by Paramount's old theater chain in 1953 ( which helped the network catch up to its rivals CBS and NBC ), and had started a good relationship with Paramount's TV division ( wherein Paramount produced a number of hit series on ABC ).

He also had a variety television series, Coke Time with Eddie Fisher ( NBC ) ( 1953 – 1957 ), appeared on The Perry Como Show, Club Oasis, The Martha Raye Show, The Gisele MacKenzie Show, The Chesterfield Supper Club and The George Gobel Show, and starred in another series, The Eddie Fisher Show ( NBC ) ( 1957 – 1959, alternating with Gobel's series ).

Pearson continued alone on NBC with Drew Pearson Comments from 1941 to 1953 for a variety of sponsors ( Serutan, Nutrex, Lee Hats, Adam Hats ).

The only commercial recording approved by Toscanini was taken mostly from a 1953 concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall.

Name That Tune ran from 1953 – 1959 on NBC and CBS in prime time.

In March 1953, the Kagran Corporation, the organization which produced the original Howdy Doody for NBC, started production on La Hora de Jaudi Dudi, a daily Spanish-language version of the program filmed in Mexico City.

He showed an interest in broadcasting as a 16-year-old, working in 1950 as an NBC page at WRC-AM, NBC's owned-and-operated radio station in Washington, D. C. Scott then attended American University, where he worked alongside fellow student Ed Walker at WAMU-AM, the university's radio station ( 1951 – 1953 ).

In 1953, he had his own short-lived NBC situation comedy on TV, Bonino, in which he appeared as a recently widowed Italian-American opera singer trying to rear six children.

* 1953 – The first U. S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

The first publicly announced network television broadcast of a program using the NTSC " compatible color " system was an episode of NBC's Kukla, Fran and Ollie on August 30, 1953, although it was viewable in color only at the network's headquarters.

This is the first time since 1953 that there are only four soap operas on broadcast television.

Another series of the fiftes, Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers broadcast live Saturdays from April 18, 1953 to May 29, 1954.

The main private television networks are RCTV ( launched 1953, losing its terrestrial broadcast licence 2007 ); Venevisión ( 1961 ); Televen ( 1988 ); Globovisión ( 1994 ).

When NTSC color was introduced in 1953, the older rate of 60 fields per second was reduced by a factor of 1000 / 1001 to avoid interference between the chroma subcarrier and the broadcast sound carrier.

In 1953 he became the first actor to play the famous folk hero Robin Hood on television, starring in six half-hour episodes broadcast from 17 March to 21 April on the BBC, and titled simply Robin Hood ( Vahimagi, 42 ).

The Avsenik saga began in 1953 with a band formed in Slovenia, broadcast on the Slovenian Hour from Austria, and dubbed the " Musicians of the Oberkrain " by a Vienna disc jockey.

The medium, which was nationalized by President Juan Perón between 1947 and 1953, has historically been broadcast by a combination of state and private-sector operators, and most of the highest-rated stations are presently owned by a number of media conglomerates.

It was also presented on Lux Radio Theater three times as an hour-long broadcast: first on December 19, 1949, with Tyrone Power and David Niven, second on May 11, 1953 with Cary Grant and Phyllis Thaxter and third on March 1, 1955, again with Grant and Thaxter.

* Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 5 " Reformation ", ( 1942 broadcast, 1953 studio recording.

* Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition ( 1938, 1948 and 1953 broadcast, studio recording 1953, all of them in the version orchestrated by Maurice Ravel.

Additional releases included a number of Beethoven symphonies recorded with the New York Philharmonic during the 1930s, a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 on February 20, 1936, at which Rudolf Serkin made his New York debut, and one of the most celebrated underground Toscanini recordings of all, the legendary 1940 broadcast version of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, which has better soloists ( Zinka Milanov, Jussi Bjoerling, both in their prime ) and a more powerful style than the 1953 RCA studio recording, although the microphone placement was kinder to the soloists in 1953.

The broadcast of The World Tomorrow went into Europe on Radio Luxembourg on January 7, 1953.

The race has been broadcast live on the radio in its entirety by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network since 1953.

Although introduced in the U. S. in 1953, only a few years after black-and-white televisions had been standardized there, high prices and lack of broadcast material greatly slowed its acceptance in the marketplace.

The first network broadcast to go out over the air in NTSC color was a performance of the opera Carmen on October 31, 1953.

* The 1951 – 1953 CBS sitcom Amos & Andy is pulled from syndication broadcast due to complaints from civil rights organizations.

( 1952 ); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ; and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara ( 1957 ), Joshua Logan's adaption of James Michener's 1954 novel.

The first authorized adaptation of The Hobbit appeared in March 1953, a stage production by St. Margaret's School, Edinburgh.

Only Esther Minciotti, Augusta Ciolli and Joe Mantell repeated their 1953 TV drama roles in the 1955 film adaptation.

According to some reports, Kiss Me Kate, a 1953 filmic adaptation of the Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate was inspired by the backstage antics of Lunt and Fontanne, who continually fought both on and off stage, but who always reconciled, both on and off stage.

Nishikado drew inspiration for the aliens from H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds — he had watched the 1953 film adaptation as a child — and created initial bitmap images after the octopus-like aliens.

Back in France he directed and collaborated on the adaptation of Schnitzler's La Ronde ( 1950 ), which won the 1951 BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Lola Montès ( 1955 ) starring Martine Carol and Peter Ustinov, as well as Le Plaisir and The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ), the latter with Danielle Darrieux and Charles Boyer, which capped his career.

During 1960, Herman also met playwright Tad Mosel and the two men collaborated on an Off-Broadway musical adaptation of Mosel's 1953 television play, Madame Aphrodite.

Merman and Berlin reunited for Call Me Madam in 1950, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, and she went on to star in the 1953 screen adaptation as well, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance.

The evocative characteristics of Borodin's music made possible the adaptation of his compositions in the 1953 musical Kismet, by Robert Wright and George Forrest, perhaps most notably in the song, " Stranger in Paradise ".

In 1953, he appeared in a BBC Television adaptation of the novel Wuthering Heights, as Heathcliff.

Her last television appearance was as Gertrude in a 1953 adaptation of Hamlet, with Maurice Evans in the title role, on the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Columbia continued to produce 40-plus pictures a year, offering productions that often broke ground and kept audiences coming to theaters such as its adaptation of the controversial James Jones novel, From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) with William Holden and Alec Guinness.

In 1953, he was seen in the title role of a one-hour adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, and in 1955, he was rather incongruously cast as Ludwig van Beethoven in an episode of the televised version of You Are There.

Other post war productions included a live performance of Richard II, directed by Royston Morley and starring Alan Wheatley as Richard and Clement McCallin as Bolingbroke ( 1950 ); a made-for-TV production of Henry V, directed by Royston Morley and Leonard Brett, and starring Clement McCallin as Henry and Marius Goring as the Chorus ( 1951 ); a Sunday Night Theatre made-for-TV production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Desmond Davis, and starring Stanley Baker as Petruchio and Margaret Johnston as Katherina ( 1952 ); a television adaptation of John Barton's Elizabethan Theatre Company production of Henry V, starring Colin George as Henry and Toby Robertson as the Chorus ( 1953 ); a live performance of Lionel Harris ' production of The Comedy of Errors starring David Pool as Antipholus of Ephesus and Paul Hansard as Antipholus of Syracuse ( 1954 ); and The Life of Henry the Fifth, the inaugural programme of BBC's new World Theatre series, directed by Peter Dews and starring John Neville as Henry and Bernard Hepton as the Chorus.

Between 1945 and 1962 he produced 18 films for Paramount, Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including the 1946 film noir, The Blue Dahlia and the 1953 film adaptation of Julius Caesar ( for which he received an Academy Award nomination for " Best Picture ").

In film and television, an adaptation of the work appeared on Your Favorite Story on February 1, 1953 ( Season 1, Episode 4 ).

He expanded his 1953 teleplay, The Bachelor Party, for the 1957 film adaptation.

In addition, he published several books for young readers, including a biography of Alexander the Great in 1953, and Meet Soviet Russia, a two-volume adaptation of Inside Russia Today in 1962.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 film adaptation of the 1949 stage musical, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, Taylor Holmes, and Norma Varden in supporting roles.

In 1953, she was directed by Charles Laughton in his own adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body with a cast also featuring Raymond Massey and Tyrone Power.

In 1998, Carpenter was signed to write the music and lyrics for a planned Broadway musical adaptation of the 1953 western film Shane.

* Barabbas, a 1953 Swedish film adaptation of the novel directed by Alf Sjöberg

On November 24, 1941, Sothern performed in the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of Maisie Was a Lady, and the popularity of the film series led to her own radio program, The Adventures of Maisie, broadcast on CBS from 1945 to 1947, on Mutual Broadcasting System in 1952 and in syndication from 1949 to 1953.

These included Onna no issho, an adaptation of Maupassant's Une Vie in 1953, and Dobu, a 1954 film about the struggles of unskilled workers and petty thieves that starred Otowa as a tragic prostitute.