The first television picture was broadcast in 1926 from Arlington, Virginia to Washington, D.C. The technological achievement was of a picture of a weather map.
In 1950, the sitcom laugh track was introduced in the U.S. on "The Hank McCune Show"; that TV program was canceled during midseason
As a college sophomore, Oprah Winfrey was the first African-American news co-anchor on a local U.S. TV station.
In 1990, Upjohn ran the first TV commercial in the U.S. during which an actor said he had diarrhea.