Historic television aspects

The Texaco Star Theatre is a program with Texaco as its title sponsor, first aired on radio from 1938 to 1949, and then on television from 1948 to the mid-1950's or before 1957.

With Milton Berle hosting the Texaco Star Theatre, television's popularity grew.

Being the host of the Texaco Star Theatre, Milton Berle is American television's first major star.

The television version of the Texaco Star Theatre, with Milton Berle, was seen on NBC every Tuesday night.

Presented from NBC's 30 Rockefeller Plaza headquarters in New York, the television iteration of the Texaco Star Theatre, hosted by Milton Berle, is television's first major hit.

I Love Lucy, which stars the husband-and-wife duo of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, is television's first scripted program to be shot on thirty-five millimetre film before a live studio audience.

Filming on thirty-five millimetre film, other than the traditional video tape at the time, ensured I Love Lucy's longevity on syndication.

Jess Oppenheimer is I Love Lucy's creator, head writer and producer; some people regard him as the creative force behind I Love Lucy and its success.

Karl Freund, the cinematographer for I Love Lucy, perfected the use for multi-camera sitcoms.

Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry, is an American science fiction media franchise, which began with the series of the same name and has since been a pop culture icon.

Enterprise is the name of several spacecraft in the Star Trek franchise; its bridge serves as the starship counterpart of an operations centre or command centre.

The first Star Trek series, which is known by its retronym Star Trek: The Original Series, stars William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Spock.

Alexander Courage composed the iconic Star Trek theme.

First aired on NBC in 1966, Star Trek: The Original Series had low ratings and ended in 1969.

However, after its initial run (and cancellation), Star Trek: The Original Series won cult status through syndication, helping it develop a broader fan base surpassing its original viewership.

William Shatner's opening monologue for Star Trek: The Original Series is:

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Matt Jefferies worked on the original Star Trek television series, where he designed many of the sets and props, including the original starship Enterprise, and the bridge and sick bay.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is as successful as its original run.

Airing through first-run syndication, Star Trek: The Next Generation features Patrick Stewart playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Jonathan Frakes playing William T. Riker.

Patrick Stewart's opening monologue for Star Trek: The Next Generation is:

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

John Reith, the BBC's first Director-General, developed the eponymous policy called Reithianism.

Reithianism means that, at a time when local radio outlets in the US, Canada and Australia drew large people cheering for their local team, the BBC emphasized service for a national audience.

The BBC Television Service started its regular operations in 1936, just before a wartime closure in the late-1930's or after 1938, only to return a year after WWII's 1945 end.

Alexandra Palace is the base for the first regular television service in the world from the BBC.

During his short-lived, but successful run as the BBC's second post-war television controller, Norman Collins made the first steps for television into becoming a truly mass medium.

Major steps made under Norman Collins as the BBC's television controller were increasing television license numbers and the expansion beyond London into other major cities.

Plus, under Norman Collins, the BBC became one of the first members of the EBU/UER.

Sutton Coldfield opened its transmitting station in 1949 as the first ever television transmitter outside London and the Home Counties.

With the 1949 opening of the Sutton Coldfield transmitter, for the first time, BBC Television became available to viewers outside the South East.

Holme Moss opened its transmitting station in the early-1950's or after 1950, two years after Sutton Coldfield in 1949, bringing BBC Television for the first time to the North.

Kirk O'Shotts, Wenvoe and Divis repsectively opened their transmitters in the rest of the 1950's, all bringing BBC Television for the first time to Scotland, Wales, the West and Northern Ireland.

EBU/UER membership was for broadcasters, otehr than governments; early delegates said that these meetings were cordial and professional and very different from the abrupt tone of its precursors.

August 1950 was when the BBC Television Service aired the first ever outside broadcast all over the English Channel to mark the centenary of the first cross-channel telegraph message.

On June 2, 1953, the BBC Television Service offered Her Majesty the Queen, the first ever witnessed fully on television.

Plus, the BBC's television coverage of the June 2, 1953 coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was carried across Europe through relays.

film recordings were flown to Canada, the United States and Australia for later broadcasts.

The June 2, 1953 coronation of Her Majesty the Queen, the Texaco Star Theatre and I Love Lucy are some aspects in putting television on the cultural map