Tag: Dallas
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35 Years Ago Today: Television Landmark TV Show ‘Dallas’ Ended After Epic Run
On this day 35 years ago, May 3, 1991, CBS broadcast the final episode of the groundbreaking prime-time drama Dallas, bringing to a close one of the most influential and longest-running television series of its era. The two-hour series finale, titled Conundrum, marked the end of a 14-season journey that had captivated audiences worldwide since…
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48 Years Ago Today: Dallas Premieres on CBS, Launching a Primetime Soap Legend
48 years ago today, on April 2, 1978, Dallas debuted on CBS, introducing viewers to the oil-rich Ewing family and igniting a primetime soap opera craze that would define a television era. The two-hour pilot, “Digger’s Daughter,” aired at 10 p.m. as the first of a five-episode miniseries, drawing 21.9 million viewers with its tale…
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40 Years Ago Today in TV History: The 200th Episode of Dallas Airs, Cementing a Prime-Time Soap Opera Dynasty
Exactly four decades ago, on November 15, 1985, CBS broadcast the landmark 200th episode of Dallas, titled “When the Bough Breaks.” This milestone installment drew an estimated 22 million viewers, underscoring the show’s unbreakable grip on American pop culture during the excess-fueled 1980s. As families gathered around their television sets on that Friday night, the…
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45 Years Ago Today: J.R. Ewing Shot on Dallas, Igniting TV’s Greatest Cliffhanger
On March 21, 1980,45 years ago today, CBS aired “A House Divided,” the Dallas episode that left America reeling as J.R. Ewing, the oil baron everyone loved to hate, was gunned down in one of television’s most iconic cliffhangers. Broadcast as the third-season finale, the moment when two bullets felled Larry Hagman’s scheming character at…
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36 Years Ago Today: Dallas Hit Its 300th Episode Milestone on CBS
On March 19, 1989, 36 years ago today, CBS aired the 300th episode of Dallas, a landmark moment for the primetime soap opera that defined 1980s television. The episode, titled “The Leopard’s Spots,” from the show’s 12th season, drew millions of viewers into the tangled web of the Ewing family, cementing Dallas as a cultural…
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3.0 OTA TV is Coming to Dallas as Part of a Larger National Roll Out
This week the Sinclair Broadcast Group, Nexstar Media, and Univision Local Media announced a deal with wireless and broadcast infrastructure provider American Tower Corp. to work together to build a ATSC 3.0 broadcast system in Dallas, TX. According to the deal, this is the first step toward a national launch of 3.0 OTA TV in markets owned…