Superman encountered Batman and Robin for the first time in the episode, “The Mystery of the Waxmen” on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

DC Comics Publisher Harry Donenfeld (left) with the programs stars,
Bud Collyer (Superman) and Joan Alexander (Lois Lane).  

Duffy’s Tavern was a popular radio situation comedy series which ran for
a decade on several networks (CBS, 1941–1942; NBC-Blue Network, 1942–
1944; NBC, 1944–1951), concluding with the December 28, 1951 broadcast.

 
Ed Gardner

  



Dinah Shore was a popular recording artist during the Big Band era of the 1940s
and 1950s. She was the first singer to achieve huge solo success. She achieved
even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as hostess of a series
of variety programs for Chevrolet. TV Guide magazine ranked her at #16 on their 
list of the top fifty television stars of all time. 

1956

David Sarnoff in 1906

              David Sarnoff  (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971)

David Sarnoff  was a businessman and pioneer of commercial radio and television
and led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the National Broadcasting
Company throughout most most of his career until his retirement in 1970. He
was named a Reserve Brigadier General of the Signal Corps in 1945 and was
thereafter widely known as “The General.”

General Sarnoff

RCA Chairman David Sarnoff (right) and RCA president Franklin
Folsom are shown with an RCA color TV set in 1956.