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Late 1940s into the 1980s
- The variety format made its way from the Victorian era stage in Britain and America to radio and then television. Variety shows were a staple of English language television from the late 1940s into the 1980s.
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Variety shows centered on running comedy sketches with recurring characters eventually evolved into sitcoms (situation comedies). 1931–1960. Variety shows were among the first programs to be featured on television during the experimental mechanical television era.
Variety shows. After a period of experimentation, the immediacy of live television led programmers to turn to the theatre, especially vaudeville. Before the advent of radio and sound movies, vaudeville had been the most popular of the performing arts in the United States.
In the 1970s, the variety show format began to fade from prime time. Audiences were more fractured than ever with the advent of the remote control and cable television.
Berle was the star of TV’s first hit show, The Texaco Star Theatre (NBC, 1948–53), a comedy-variety show that quickly became the most popular program at that point in television’s very short history.
In 1948, CBS hired Sullivan to host its first variety show endeavor, a new format that combined vaudeville with television and was nicknamed “vaudeo.” The show was called The Toast of the Town .
Original name (1975–77): NBC’s Saturday Night.
The technology for television existed prior to World War II, but it was in the late 1940s that television sets became household items and talented entertainers could pave the way for the new medium.
