Talk:The Ford 50th Anniversary Show

A fact from The Ford 50th Anniversary Show appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 October 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a 1953 television special broadcast simultaneously on NBC and CBS attracted 60 million viewers and was called "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s"?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 15:36, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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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).[reply]

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)[reply]