Just a few random TV related events that happened on August 13. Discuss or comment as you please……
1919: Televangelist Rex Humbard is born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1928: New York radio station WRNY begins a regular schedule of "radio television" broadcasts: 5 minute programs via 48 line mechanical scanners (10 frames per second) on 919 kHz.
1929: Actor Pat Harrington, Jr. (The Steve Allen Show, One Day at a Time) is born in New York City.
1930: Entertainer Don Ho is born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Whenever a TV series did special Hawaii location episodes (usually after they had already “jumped the shark”), you knew it was a sure bet than Don Ho would make an appearance.
1947: Actress Gretchen Corbett (The Rockford Files) is born in Camp Sherman, Oregon.
1956: WCYB-TV (channel 5) begins broadcasting in the VA/TN Tri-Cities area (Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City).
1963: Construction is completed on the 2,063 ft. (628.8 m) tower of Fargo, North Dakota’s KTHI (now KVLY-TV) in Blanchard. It remains the tallest guyed transmitting mast in the world. The tower was built by Hamilton Directors and Kline Iron and Steel, and took 30 days to complete, at a cost of $500,000 ($3.3 million in 2007 dollars).
1967: Actress Quinn Cummings (Family) is born in Los Angeles.
1967: WQLN (channel 54) begins operations as a non-commercial station in Erie, Pennsylvania. The station was a long time in coming, beginning in 1953 with the founding of Educational Television of Erie (later Educational Television of Northwest Pennsylvania). The group eventually managed to reserve channel 54 for noncommercial use, finally winning a construction permit in 1966.
1984: Call to Glory premieres on ABC.
1985: The newsmagazine West 57th debuts on CBS.
1997: South Park is aired for the first time on Comedy Central.
2004: “The French Chef,” Julia Child dies of kidney failure in Montecito, California, aged 91.
2007: Hall of Famer and legendary Yankees broadcaster Phil “The Scooter” Rizzuto dies in West Orange, New Jersey, aged 89.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits…..don’t expect it every single day. 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…..)
1919: Televangelist Rex Humbard is born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1928: New York radio station WRNY begins a regular schedule of "radio television" broadcasts: 5 minute programs via 48 line mechanical scanners (10 frames per second) on 919 kHz.
1929: Actor Pat Harrington, Jr. (The Steve Allen Show, One Day at a Time) is born in New York City.
1930: Entertainer Don Ho is born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Whenever a TV series did special Hawaii location episodes (usually after they had already “jumped the shark”), you knew it was a sure bet than Don Ho would make an appearance.
1947: Actress Gretchen Corbett (The Rockford Files) is born in Camp Sherman, Oregon.
1956: WCYB-TV (channel 5) begins broadcasting in the VA/TN Tri-Cities area (Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City).
1963: Construction is completed on the 2,063 ft. (628.8 m) tower of Fargo, North Dakota’s KTHI (now KVLY-TV) in Blanchard. It remains the tallest guyed transmitting mast in the world. The tower was built by Hamilton Directors and Kline Iron and Steel, and took 30 days to complete, at a cost of $500,000 ($3.3 million in 2007 dollars).
1967: Actress Quinn Cummings (Family) is born in Los Angeles.
1967: WQLN (channel 54) begins operations as a non-commercial station in Erie, Pennsylvania. The station was a long time in coming, beginning in 1953 with the founding of Educational Television of Erie (later Educational Television of Northwest Pennsylvania). The group eventually managed to reserve channel 54 for noncommercial use, finally winning a construction permit in 1966.
1984: Call to Glory premieres on ABC.
1985: The newsmagazine West 57th debuts on CBS.
1997: South Park is aired for the first time on Comedy Central.
2004: “The French Chef,” Julia Child dies of kidney failure in Montecito, California, aged 91.
2007: Hall of Famer and legendary Yankees broadcaster Phil “The Scooter” Rizzuto dies in West Orange, New Jersey, aged 89.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits…..don’t expect it every single day. 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…..)
