Just a few random TV related events that happened on August 5. Discuss or comment as you please……
1945: Actress Loni Anderson (WKRP in Cincinnati, Partners in Crime, Nurses) is born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
1945: Actress Ja’net Du Bois (Good Times) is born (as Jeannette DuBois) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DYK: She co-wrote and sang the theme song to The Jeffersons.
1956: Actress Maureen McCormick (The Brady Bunch) is born in Encino, California.
1956: KUAM-TV begins operating on channel 8 as Guam’s first TV station. DYK: Guam is the only U.S. TV market west of the International Date Line. Consequently, network affiliates there currently air the same program schedules as the continental U.S., but on a Tuesday-thru-Monday pattern rather than the traditional Monday-thru-Sunday pattern.
1957: American Bandstand goes national, the former local Philadelphia show being picked up by ABC.
1961: Actress Tawny Kitaen is born in San Diego, California.
1968: WMCV (channel 17) signs on for the first time in Nashville, Tennessee. It was Nashville’s first UHF station, and Tennessee’s first independent. The station would struggle for 2 ½ years before going dark. It would later be resurrected as WZTV in 1976, this time for good.
1999: The FCC reverses its long-standing regulations against duopoly ownerships in the same television market.
2003: The O.C. debuts on Fox.
2006: A breaking news story in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald publicly reveals that magnetic tapes of the original Apollo 11 SSTV transmissions from the Moon are missing. The story publicly embarrasses NASA and goads them to begin a search (unsuccessful to date) for the tapes. The remarkably clear images sent from the Moon were significantly degraded by the analog optical process used to convert the transmissions for broadcast television. (For an example, see some comparison stills shot on the day of the landing.) It has been hoped that recovery of the tapes could enable NASA to restore videos of the mission to their original sharpness and detail; however, even if found, the obsolete tapes may be unplayable as the only surviving equipment able to decode them may be mothballed due to budget cuts at the Goddard Center.
(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…..)
1945: Actress Loni Anderson (WKRP in Cincinnati, Partners in Crime, Nurses) is born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
1945: Actress Ja’net Du Bois (Good Times) is born (as Jeannette DuBois) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DYK: She co-wrote and sang the theme song to The Jeffersons.
1956: Actress Maureen McCormick (The Brady Bunch) is born in Encino, California.
1956: KUAM-TV begins operating on channel 8 as Guam’s first TV station. DYK: Guam is the only U.S. TV market west of the International Date Line. Consequently, network affiliates there currently air the same program schedules as the continental U.S., but on a Tuesday-thru-Monday pattern rather than the traditional Monday-thru-Sunday pattern.
1957: American Bandstand goes national, the former local Philadelphia show being picked up by ABC.
1961: Actress Tawny Kitaen is born in San Diego, California.
1968: WMCV (channel 17) signs on for the first time in Nashville, Tennessee. It was Nashville’s first UHF station, and Tennessee’s first independent. The station would struggle for 2 ½ years before going dark. It would later be resurrected as WZTV in 1976, this time for good.
1999: The FCC reverses its long-standing regulations against duopoly ownerships in the same television market.
2003: The O.C. debuts on Fox.
2006: A breaking news story in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald publicly reveals that magnetic tapes of the original Apollo 11 SSTV transmissions from the Moon are missing. The story publicly embarrasses NASA and goads them to begin a search (unsuccessful to date) for the tapes. The remarkably clear images sent from the Moon were significantly degraded by the analog optical process used to convert the transmissions for broadcast television. (For an example, see some comparison stills shot on the day of the landing.) It has been hoped that recovery of the tapes could enable NASA to restore videos of the mission to their original sharpness and detail; however, even if found, the obsolete tapes may be unplayable as the only surviving equipment able to decode them may be mothballed due to budget cuts at the Goddard Center.
(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…..)