Modern Homemakers
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Modern Homemakers was the world's second color television
series, making its debut on June 27, 1951, on five stations of the CBS
television network in the eastern United States. This half-hour daytime program was hosted from New York
by home economist
Edalene Stohr, and broadcast Monday through Friday. The first color television series, The World Is Yours, began the previous day, June 26, 1951.
Modern Homemakers, like other CBS color programs from 1951, was broadcast in the CBS field sequential color system that was incompatible with existing black and white television sets, on which no picture would be visible. Only a small number of prototype color television sets existed on which the program could be seen. It was last broadcast on August 17, 1951, a month before the first commercially manufactured CBS color television sets were made.
Color television
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series, making its debut on June 27, 1951, on five stations of the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
television network in the eastern United States. This half-hour daytime program was hosted from New York
New York City
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by home economist
Home Economics
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Edalene Stohr, and broadcast Monday through Friday. The first color television series, The World Is Yours, began the previous day, June 26, 1951.
Modern Homemakers, like other CBS color programs from 1951, was broadcast in the CBS field sequential color system that was incompatible with existing black and white television sets, on which no picture would be visible. Only a small number of prototype color television sets existed on which the program could be seen. It was last broadcast on August 17, 1951, a month before the first commercially manufactured CBS color television sets were made.