Academy Awards on the Small Screen
On its 25th anniversary, the Academy Awards ceremony was televised for the first time, carried by NBC from the Pantages Theater in Hollywood and the NBC International Theater in New York. Bob Hope, the host, opened the show with the line: “Television -- that’s where movies go when they die.” The broadcast was a huge success, scoring the highest ratings in television’s then five-year commercial history. At the ceremony, Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Greatest Show on Earth” was named best film of 1952.
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