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January 04, 2026
E20: Countdown #87: Say Kids, What Time Is It?
For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years...
00:08:41
December 28, 2025
E19: Countdown #88: "The Phones Lit Up!"
On the evening of May 7, 1947, RCA-made, Image Orthicon-powered television cameras came to life at NBC’s Studio 9-H in Rockefeller Center — the...
00:12:13
December 21, 2025
E18: Countdown #89: "Eye" Can See Clearly Now
After the 'false dawn' of 1939-1941, one of television's first steps out of its postwar crib was the telecast of the Joe Louis vs....
00:09:49
December 14, 2025
E17: Countdown #90: Television Goes To War (1941-1945)
For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years...
00:13:09
December 07, 2025
E16: Countdown #91: Bulova Time (1941)
"It was a big goddammed deal!" For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100...
00:09:50
November 30, 2025
E15: Countdown #92: Standards
Despite RCA's plunge at the New York World's Fair in the spring of 1939, the FCC proceeded cautiously before setting signal standards for the...
00:09:14