Weather forecasting G. Harold Noyes in 1931. The world's first televised weather forecasts, including the use of weather maps, were experimentally broadcast by the BBC in 1936. This was brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. George Cowling gave the first weather forecast while being televised in front of the map in 1954. In America, experimental television forecasts were made by James C Fidler in Cincinnati in either 1940 or 1947 on the DuMont Television Network. In the late 1970s and early 80s, John Coleman, the first weatherman on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, pioneered the use of on-screen weather satellite
Macbeth (Hallmark Hall of Fame 1954) and was released theatrically in Europe. Macbeth (Hallmark Hall of Fame 1954) Macbeth is a live television adaptation of the William Shakespeare play presented as the November 28, 1954 episode of the American anthology series "Hallmark Hall of Fame". Directed by George Schaefer, and starring Maurice Evans and Dame Judith Anderson, the production was telecast in color, but has only been preserved on black-and-white kinescope. In 1960, Evans and Anderson starred in a filmed made-for-television production of the play, also directed by Schaefer for the "Hallmark Hall of Fame", but with an entirely different supporting cast. That production was filmed