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Desi Arnaz Jr. He helped make TV Guide Magazine a hit right out of the box. And we, in turn, helped make his life utterly confusing! On April 3, 1953, a chubby-Â­cheeked newborn named Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV â eventually known as Desi Arnaz Jr. â graced the cover of our very first issue with a cover line touting him as Lucy's $50,000,000 Baby..
The first person to appear on television was a young office boy in the building where Baird worked. The lad was paid about 60 cents for his appearance! The first broadcasting of TV pictures didnât begin until 1935, in Germany, with American TV broadcasting following six years later, in 1941. By 1949, there were a million TV sets in this country, and by 1959, there were 50 million. During the 1960s, color television became popular.