Television History - The First 75 Years
 
 

What Things Cost in 1951:
Car: $1,800
Gasoline: 27 cents/gal
House: $16,000
Bread: 16 cents/loaf
Milk: 92 cents/gal
Postage Stamp: 3 cents
Stock Market: 269
Average Annual Salary: $4,200
Minimum Wage: 75 cents per hour

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1951 Ford

• FEBRUARY: DuMont established the first international hook-up (with Cuba)
  

• Milton Berle gets 30 year $100,000 per year contract to do 360 shows.
  

• JUNE: 13,000,000 television sets in the USA
  

• SEPTEMBER 4th: First coast-to-coast telecast (President Truman speaks)
  

• OCTOBER 15th:  I Love Lucy show premieres on CBS

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