Template:Did you know nominations/The Ford 50th Anniversary Show
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 15:36, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
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The Ford 50th Anniversary Show
Mary Martin and Ethel Merman duet in Ford Anniversary Show
- ... that a 1953 television special (pictured), broadcast simultaneously on both NBC and CBS, attracted 60 million viewers and was later called "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s"? Source: Tom Shales - "It was a milestone in the cultural life of the 50s. ... Ford Motor Co. ... bought two hours of air time on two networks simultaneously, NBC and CBS ... Sixty million people saw it on the same night."
- ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)
- Reviewed: Punic Wars
Created by Cbl62 (talk). Self-nominated at 14:48, 28 September 2020 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The image is in the public domain, the hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. @Cbl62: I marked this as AGF because the newspapers.com clip failed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:40, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
