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Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV

Over 100 weeks, we"re going to countdown to the Centennial of Video on Sept 7, 2027 by recounting the 100 Top Moments in the First 100 Years of Television.

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00:11:42

E30: Countdown #77: Gibberish

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/03/15

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ As a youngster, Isaac Sydney Caesar spent many hours behind the counter at his parents kosher restaurant in Yonkers, New York, carefully observing the patrons

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00:13:54

E29: Countdown #78: "Yoo-hoo! Is Anybody There?"

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/03/08

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ When CBS broadcast the premiere of The Goldbergs On February 7, 1949, one of the comedy's's most enduring formats found its way to television The Goldbergs was created

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00:11:27

E28: Countdown #79: Delisted

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/03/01

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ There are three reasons why the name of Philo T. Farnsworth is not more familiar, despite his having invented what is arguably the most transformative technology of the

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00:13:47

E27: Countdown #80: Selling Soap

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/02/22

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ Irna Phillips was the youngest of ten children born into a large Jewish family in Chicago in 1901. Her girlhood dreams of becoming an actress were dashed when acting

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00:13:47

E27: Countdown #80: Selling Soap

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/02/22

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ Irna Phillips was the youngest of ten children born into a large Jewish family in Chicago in 1901. Her girlhood dreams of becoming an actress were dashed when acting

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00:12:41

E26: Countdown #81: Immy, Meet Emmy

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/02/15

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ Though he is largely forgotten in the public imagination, it is genuinely intriguing how the legacy of Philo T. Farnsworth drifts in and out of the history of

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00:12:41

E26: Countdown #81: Immy, Meet Emmy

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/02/15

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ Though he is largely forgotten in the public imagination, it is genuinely intriguing how the legacy of Philo T. Farnsworth drifts in and out of the history of

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00:08:20

E25: Countdown #82: Happy New Year!

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/02/08

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ In 1904, New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs moved the newspaper's headquarters into the newly constructed Times Tower at the intersection of Broadway, Seventh Avenue

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00:08:20

E25: Countdown #82: Happy New Year!

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/02/08

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ In 1904, New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs moved the newspaper's headquarters into the newly constructed Times Tower at the intersection of Broadway, Seventh Avenue

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00:09:29

E24: Countdown #83: Candid Camera

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/02/01

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ Before Survivor, before The Real World, before all The Real Housewives and The Celebrity Apprentice, there was Allen Funt. Allen Funt's concept for a television show

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00:09:29

E24: Countdown #83: Candid Camera

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/02/01

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ Before Survivor, before The Real World, before all The Real Housewives and The Celebrity Apprentice, there was Allen Funt. Allen Funt's concept for a television show

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00:09:20

E23: Countdown #84 "Mr. Television"

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/01/25

When he was only 12 years old, an aspiring vaudeville performer named Mendel Berlinger decided he needed a more ethnically palatable stage name. In 1920, he changed his name to Milton Berle and continued to refine his comic persona on radio. Milton Berle was a fairly well known when NBC started migrating much of its radio programming to television. In the summer of 1948, when Texaco Star Theater began a trial run on television, audience response to

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00:08:29

E22: Countdown #85: CATV

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/01/18

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ In 1947 Ed and Grace Parsons, the owners of a radio station in Astoria, Oregon, attended the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Chicago. It was

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00:08:29

E22: Countdown #85: CATV

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/01/18

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. ____________ In 1947 Ed and Grace Parsons, the owners of a radio station in Astoria, Oregon, attended the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Chicago. It was

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00:08:29

E21: Countdown #86: Meet The Press

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/01/11

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. In this week's episode, we meet Martha Rountree, the first woman to host a news and public affairs program on television and the creator of Meet The Press – the longest running

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00:08:29

E21: Countdown #86: Meet The Press

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/01/11

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. In this week's episode, we meet Marta Rountree, the first woman to host a news and public affairs program on television and the creator of Meet The Press – the longest running

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00:08:41

E20: Countdown #87: Say Kids, What Time Is It?

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/01/04

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. On December 27, 1947 a genial thirty-year-old man with wavy dark hair and a broad smile, wearing a fringed cowboy shirt and a bolo tie, looked into a television camera at WNBC Studio

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00:08:41

E20: Countdown #87: Say Kids, What Time Is It?

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2026/01/04

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. On December 27, 1947 a genial thirty-year-old man with wavy dark hair and a broad smile, wearing a fringed cowboy shirt and a bolo tie, looked into a television camera at WNBC Studio

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00:12:13

E19: Countdown #88: "The Phones Lit Up!"

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/12/28

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 same studio where, a decade earlier, Maestro Arturo Toscanini had made NBC a cultural force with live broadcasts of the NBC Symphony⁠. ⁠1 The new show was called Kraft Television Theatre, and represented a turning point for the new medium in two respects. First, it was live theater, like Broadway on the air

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00:12:13

E19: Countdown #88: "The Phones Lit Up!"

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/12/28

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 same studio where, a decade earlier, Maestro Arturo Toscanini had made NBC a cultural force with live broadcasts of the NBC Symphony⁠. ⁠1 The new show was called Kraft Television Theatre, and represented a turning point for the new medium in two respects. First, it was live theater, like Broadway on the air

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