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Legion Television: The Groundbreaking Story Behind America’s First Regular TV News Broadcast Welcome to Legion Television — a pioneering force in the history of broadcast journalism and one of the earliest entities to deliver regular television news programming in the United States. Though not a modern streaming giant or scripted entertainment studio, Legion Television holds a crucial place in media history for shaping how news was reported and consumed through early television. ### What Was Legion Television? Legion Television is best known for producing and airing some of the nation’s first consistent television-based news broadcasts during the late 1940s and early 1950s. At a time when television was still a fledgling medium — primarily used for live entertainment, variety shows, and limited news segments — Legion Television helped bridge the gap between radio-style reporting and the emerging visual storytelling era.