Live television refers to a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present.
From the early days of television until about 1958, live television was used heavily, except for filmed shows such as I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke. Although videotape was invented in 1957, it cost $300 per one hour reel (equivalent to $2,528 in 2016) meaning it was only very gradually adopted. Some genres, such as soap operas, did not completely abandon live broadcasts until the mid-1970s.
Today, television networks provide most live television for morning shows with television programs such as: Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, This Morning, etc. broadcast live in the UK, Sunrise live in Australia, Canada AM live in Canada, and Today, Good Morning America & CBS This Morning in the U.S. airing live only in the Eastern Time Zone. (the only exceptions being CBS This Morning - Saturday and the Sunday edition of Weekend Today which air live in the Eastern & Central time zones)
Every star that has died leave a void
Now locked inside some reel of celluloid
In some old archive
In this age of video, could we know
Or understand the magic and the joy
That was Hollywood?
Hollywood, movie queens
Heart-throb magazines
Memory's all we've got
Videos of Hollywood
I love all those films, so grand
I see them still, the Cecil B. De Mille's
On the silver screen
The legend lingers on, but with time
The era gone, now images and songs
That was Hollywood
Hollywood, movie queens
Heart-throb magazines
Memory's all we've got
Videos of Hollywood