...but it did build Disneyland. 

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For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.”  The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. 

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Before 1950, Walt Disney regarded television with the same suspicion as most of Hollywood colleagues: as a threat to their box office, giving away for free what people should be buying tickets for.

But as his studio geared up for the release of its most expensive ever animated feature – Alice In Wonderland – Disney decided it was time to put a cautious toe in the electronic waters of television.  What he discovered was less a threat than a megaphone. 

And when he started to focus on his biggest idea of all, he turned again to television, making a deal with ABC to finance his Disneyland theme park in exchange for a weekly television show – that he used to promote his theme park. 

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Visit: https://100YearsTV.com 

Read: The Boy Who Invented Television: https://amz.run/6ag1

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: The Story of Mickey Mouse
• (00:04:22) - Disney's Disneyland, the TV Show
• (00:13:04) - 100 Years of Television