Just a few random TV related events that happened on August 25. Discuss or comment as you please……
1921: Game show host Monty Hall (Let’s Make a Deal) is born (as Monte Halparin) in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1931: TV host Regis Philbin is born in New York City.
1934: Philo Farnsworth gives the world's first public demonstration of a complete all-electronic television system at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
1948: KFI-TV (later KHJ-TV, now KCAL-TV) debuts in Los Angeles on channel 9. Originally an NBC affiliate, it lost that affiliation just 5 months later when O&O KNBW (now KNBC) signed on. Apart from airing some DuMont shows in the mid-50’s, it remains an independent to this day.
1949: The RCA Dot-Sequential Color System -- a new all-electronic, high-definition, fully compatible color television system -- is announced by RCA to the FCC. The proposed system, which would both fit into existing 6-mHz wide TV channels and not render black-and-white sets obsolete, would be tweaked and adjusted to become the NTSC color system, which ultimately doomed CBS’ competing non-compatible system to the scrap heap of TV history.
1958: The venerable game show Concentration premieres on NBC.
1963: Actress/producer Christine “Moose” McGlade (You Can’t Do That on Television) is born in Canada.
1964: Actor Blair Underwood is born in Tacoma, Washington.
1968: Cook and TV host Rachael Ray is born in Glens Falls, New York.
2003: DTV “on the cheap!” KYES-TV (analog channel 5) becomes the Anchorage, Alaska market’s first DTV signal, broadcasting on UHF channel 22 with just 20 watts. The entire setup costs a paltry $5000: a 100-watt analog translator and a digital exciter purchased on eBay are fed into a temporary 30-foot tower on the roof of the hillside home of the station’s president. Despite the low ERP, the hillside location and the compact geography of greater Anchorage enables the “El Cheapo” setup to produce a viewable digital signal throughout the city.
(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…..)
1921: Game show host Monty Hall (Let’s Make a Deal) is born (as Monte Halparin) in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1931: TV host Regis Philbin is born in New York City.
1934: Philo Farnsworth gives the world's first public demonstration of a complete all-electronic television system at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
1948: KFI-TV (later KHJ-TV, now KCAL-TV) debuts in Los Angeles on channel 9. Originally an NBC affiliate, it lost that affiliation just 5 months later when O&O KNBW (now KNBC) signed on. Apart from airing some DuMont shows in the mid-50’s, it remains an independent to this day.
1949: The RCA Dot-Sequential Color System -- a new all-electronic, high-definition, fully compatible color television system -- is announced by RCA to the FCC. The proposed system, which would both fit into existing 6-mHz wide TV channels and not render black-and-white sets obsolete, would be tweaked and adjusted to become the NTSC color system, which ultimately doomed CBS’ competing non-compatible system to the scrap heap of TV history.
1958: The venerable game show Concentration premieres on NBC.
1963: Actress/producer Christine “Moose” McGlade (You Can’t Do That on Television) is born in Canada.
1964: Actor Blair Underwood is born in Tacoma, Washington.
1968: Cook and TV host Rachael Ray is born in Glens Falls, New York.
2003: DTV “on the cheap!” KYES-TV (analog channel 5) becomes the Anchorage, Alaska market’s first DTV signal, broadcasting on UHF channel 22 with just 20 watts. The entire setup costs a paltry $5000: a 100-watt analog translator and a digital exciter purchased on eBay are fed into a temporary 30-foot tower on the roof of the hillside home of the station’s president. Despite the low ERP, the hillside location and the compact geography of greater Anchorage enables the “El Cheapo” setup to produce a viewable digital signal throughout the city.
(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…..)
