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WDTV Education Series

1952-06

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WDTV Education Series
  • Title
  • WDTV Education Series
  • Creator
  • Samuel A. Musgrave
  • Identifier
  • MSP117.B013.F02.I07
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP117.B013.F02.I07
  • Description
  • On the night of January 11, 1949, Pittsburgh’s first television station, WDTV, channel 3, went on the air. Because of a limited network feed, WDTV provided its viewers with a wide variety of local programming. WDTV had only one large studio in which the camera crew would shoot “around the walls” as each set was changed for a particular program. The staff had the opportunity to create and produce programs that met the local population’s demand until the network feed became available at 3 p.m. In the early 1950s the WDTV program “Swing Shift Theater” was the first 24-hour broadcast by a television station. On January 31, 1955, Group W purchased WDTV and the call letters were changed to KDKA-TV shortly thereafter.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • WDTV (Television station: Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Children--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Television programs--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs, 1880-1982, MSP 117, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center