Just a few random TV related events that happened on April 27. Discuss or comment as you please……
1922: Actor Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple; Quincy, M.E.) is born (as Jacob Joachim Klugman) in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania.
1933: Announcer/DJ/voice artist Casey Kasem (America’s Top Ten, Scooby-Doo) is born (as Kemal Amin Kasem) in Detroit, Michigan.
1939: Actress Judy Carne (Love on a Rooftop, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) is born (as Joyce Botterill) in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.
1971: WFIL-TV (channel 6) in Philadelphia changes its call letters to the current WPVI-TV.
1971: The last first-run episode of Green Acres airs on CBS.
1972: Actress Maura West (As the World Turns) is born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1986: At 12:32 a.m. Eastern time, HBO viewers watching “The Falcon and the Snowman” see their picture break up, to be replaced for 4 1/2 minutes by color bars with the message “GOODEVENING HBO - FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT -$12.95/MONTH ? - NO WAY ! - [SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!]” The legendary “Captain Midnight” signal intrusion is perpetrated by one John R. MacDougall, a satellite TV dealer in Ocala, Florida who is working at Central Florida Teleport, a company that provides video uplink services to satellites. At the end of his shift, he swings his uplink to aim at the Galaxy I satellite, and overrides the HBO signal with his electronic protest sign. MacDougall, like many of his customers, was chagrined that cable channels like HBO were putting the kibosh on unauthorized free reception by the growing legions of private C-Band TVRO satellite dish owners, and planning to scramble their signals and charge dish owners to decode them. MacDougall would eventually be tracked down and arrested, agreeing to a plea-bargained $5,000 fine and one year probation.
(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…..)
1922: Actor Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple; Quincy, M.E.) is born (as Jacob Joachim Klugman) in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania.
1933: Announcer/DJ/voice artist Casey Kasem (America’s Top Ten, Scooby-Doo) is born (as Kemal Amin Kasem) in Detroit, Michigan.
1939: Actress Judy Carne (Love on a Rooftop, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) is born (as Joyce Botterill) in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.
1971: WFIL-TV (channel 6) in Philadelphia changes its call letters to the current WPVI-TV.
1971: The last first-run episode of Green Acres airs on CBS.
1972: Actress Maura West (As the World Turns) is born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1986: At 12:32 a.m. Eastern time, HBO viewers watching “The Falcon and the Snowman” see their picture break up, to be replaced for 4 1/2 minutes by color bars with the message “GOODEVENING HBO - FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT -$12.95/MONTH ? - NO WAY ! - [SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!]” The legendary “Captain Midnight” signal intrusion is perpetrated by one John R. MacDougall, a satellite TV dealer in Ocala, Florida who is working at Central Florida Teleport, a company that provides video uplink services to satellites. At the end of his shift, he swings his uplink to aim at the Galaxy I satellite, and overrides the HBO signal with his electronic protest sign. MacDougall, like many of his customers, was chagrined that cable channels like HBO were putting the kibosh on unauthorized free reception by the growing legions of private C-Band TVRO satellite dish owners, and planning to scramble their signals and charge dish owners to decode them. MacDougall would eventually be tracked down and arrested, agreeing to a plea-bargained $5,000 fine and one year probation.
(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…..)