The company's first two television programs were "Yesterday's Newsreel" and "Sports Album". Material for those programs came from Ziv's purchase of General Film Library, which Erickson described as "so vast that it had storehouses on both coasts". The shows were produced by packaging segments from the library for television. "Yesterday's Newsreel" featured events like the Hindenburg disaster and the sinking of the Titanic. It was a 15-minute program, while "Sports Album" ran 5 minutes. "The Cisco Kid", Ziv's first dramatic series, began in 1949 and was produced until 1956, resulting in 156 episodes. The program's gross revenue for its first 10 years in syndication was $11 million.