Just a few random TV related events that happened on April 16. Discuss or comment as you please……
1927: Singer/actress Edie Adams (The Ernie Kovacs Show, Take a Good Look, Here’s Edie) is born (as Edie Elizabeth Enke) in Kingston, Pennsylvania.
1949: Actress Melody Patterson (F Troop) is born in Inglewood, California.
1954: KULA-TV (channel 4, later KHVH-TV, now KITV) signs on in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1962: Walter Cronkite begins his 19-year run as anchor of The CBS Evening News.
1965: Comedian/actor Martin Lawrence (Martin) is born in Frankfurt, Germany (military brat).
1978: The acclaimed 4-part miniseries Holocaust debuts on NBC.
1986: After 18 years as the face of WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News, anchor Roger Grimsby is fired by News Director Bill Applegate, a move that stuns and angers many viewers of the station. Grimsby would be quickly hired by rival WNBC-TV.
2002: Actor Robert Urich (Vega$, Spencer: For Hire) dies of cancer in Thousand Oaks, California, aged 55.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits. It’s an entirely random selection based on a quick Net search, and is not meant to be comprehensive. So, don’t post nasty messages about “you forgot THIS” or “how could you not mention THAT?” Do so, and I’ll just take my keyboard and go home…..)
1927: Singer/actress Edie Adams (The Ernie Kovacs Show, Take a Good Look, Here’s Edie) is born (as Edie Elizabeth Enke) in Kingston, Pennsylvania.
1949: Actress Melody Patterson (F Troop) is born in Inglewood, California.
1954: KULA-TV (channel 4, later KHVH-TV, now KITV) signs on in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1962: Walter Cronkite begins his 19-year run as anchor of The CBS Evening News.
1965: Comedian/actor Martin Lawrence (Martin) is born in Frankfurt, Germany (military brat).
1978: The acclaimed 4-part miniseries Holocaust debuts on NBC.
1986: After 18 years as the face of WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News, anchor Roger Grimsby is fired by News Director Bill Applegate, a move that stuns and angers many viewers of the station. Grimsby would be quickly hired by rival WNBC-TV.
2002: Actor Robert Urich (Vega$, Spencer: For Hire) dies of cancer in Thousand Oaks, California, aged 55.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits. It’s an entirely random selection based on a quick Net search, and is not meant to be comprehensive. So, don’t post nasty messages about “you forgot THIS” or “how could you not mention THAT?” Do so, and I’ll just take my keyboard and go home…..)
