Lowell Thomas hosted the first ever television news broadcast in 1939 and the first regularly scheduled television news broadcast beginning on February 21, 1940, over W2XBS (now WNBC) New York, which was a camera simulcast of his radio broadcast. Lowell Thomas also hosted the first commercially broadcast television news show on July 1, 1941, 6:45 - 7:00 PM, on station WNBT of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
