1958年5月1日北京电视台(中央电视台的前身)开始试播的时候,电视节目主要有三大类型:新闻节目、专题节目和文艺节目。在随后的20多年里,文艺节目作为电视节目的三大支柱之一,从内容到形式都发生了很大的变化。但由于种种条件的限制,电视文艺节目基本上是戏剧、曲艺、歌舞等各种舞台艺术的电视转播,电视荧屏成了一个“小剧场”。上个世纪60年代初期,时任中央广播事业局局长的梅益同志曾经提出:电视台“要 May 1, 1958 When Beijing TV Station (the predecessor of CCTV) began its pilot broadcast, there were three main types of television programs: news programs, special programs and literary programs. In the ensuing 20 years, literary and artistic programs, as one of the three pillars of television programs, have undergone great changes from content to form. However, due to various conditions, the television program is basically a television program of various stage arts such as drama, folk art, song and dance, and the television screen becomes a ”small theater.“ In the early 1960s, Comrade Mei Yi, then director of the Central Broadcasting Administration, once proposed: ”