# The 9 September 1956 Ed Sullivan broadcast makes Presley a national living-room object

Date: 1956

## The fact

On 9 September 1956 the Ed Sullivan Show carried [Presley](/people/elvis-presley) to a national television public.

It is one event.

## Context

Television can panic and can teach a mass audience a sound. Split June 1956 polarisation.

Elvis Presley’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

[Sullivan](/people/francis-sullivan)’s first Presley hour (9 September 1956; further dates 28 October and 6 January 1957) was a CBS television access act. Sponsor and network shared it. He performed. Living-room access is not a school statute.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica’s Sullivan dates and Billboard’s television-and-chart coupling independently treat September 1956 as a national access event.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Elvis Presley (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elvis-Presley; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A national TV hour increased copyable access to a recorded-sound star without a concert ticket.

A TV hour is not a 1968 NBC special.

A national TV hour increased copyable access to a recorded-sound star without a concert ticket.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 9 September 1956 Sullivan broadcast. Not established: a literacy census from one hour.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Elvis Presley.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Elvis Presley: https://factrail.ai/people/elvis-presley

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elvis-Presley
- https://www.billboard.com/artist/elvis-presley/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/elv-sullivan-1956