When did the first TV game shows air?

When did the first TV game shows air?

The game shows started appearing on television in the late 40's. One of the earliest ones was "Truth or Consequences" which transferred from radio to television and lasted, in a variety of forms, into the 70's and has come back a couple of times since then. The game show transfer from radio to television was a natural because many of the shows involved audio cues and answering questions and things of that sort. So it was very easy to do that on television. In fact the challenge for early television was to take the radio form and add a visual component to them.