Just a few random TV related events that happened on August 6. Discuss or comment as you please……
1911: The legendary Lucille Ball is born in Jamestown, New York. DYK: In 1927, a 16-year old Ball briefly attended a drama school. She was sent home mere weeks later after her coaches told her she had “no future as a performer.”
1938: Actor/Director Peter Bonerz (The Bob Newhart Show) is born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1954: WLAC-TV (channel 5) hits the airwaves as a CBS affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee. The inauguration of the station makes Nashville at the time the smallest city in the U.S. to have three full-time network affiliates. Calls would change to WTVF in 1975.
1956: R.I.P. The final DuMont network broadcast, a boxing match, closes the chapter on the first “fourth network.” DuMont had already ceased broadcasting regularly scheduled programming about a year previous, but still used the network feed for occasional sporting events.
1973: Washington Post journalist Sally Quinn begins her short, ill-fated venture into television, as co-host (with the gruff and avuncular Hughes Rudd) of the CBS Morning News. The stars (both celestial and human) are misaligned from the start. Quinn’s inauspicious debut was complicated by a bout of the flu (she collapsed from dehydration just 90 minutes prior to airtime on her first day), and the death of Rudd’s mother forced the rookie to anchor solo on the very next day. She would leave CBS just six months later.
1976: Actress Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster) is born in Glendora, California.
1991: Journalist Harry Reasoner dies in Westport, Connecticut, aged 68.
1993: The final two network episodes of Perfect Strangers are aired back-to-back on ABC.
1993: After 43 years, The Joe Franklin Show airs its final episode on WWOR-TV. The show had begun on WABC-TV in 1950, and moved to (then) WOR-TV 12 years later.
2006: NFL football returns to NBC (8 years after losing broadcast rights to CBS), in the first telecast of NBC Sunday Night Football.
(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…..)
1911: The legendary Lucille Ball is born in Jamestown, New York. DYK: In 1927, a 16-year old Ball briefly attended a drama school. She was sent home mere weeks later after her coaches told her she had “no future as a performer.”
1938: Actor/Director Peter Bonerz (The Bob Newhart Show) is born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1954: WLAC-TV (channel 5) hits the airwaves as a CBS affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee. The inauguration of the station makes Nashville at the time the smallest city in the U.S. to have three full-time network affiliates. Calls would change to WTVF in 1975.
1956: R.I.P. The final DuMont network broadcast, a boxing match, closes the chapter on the first “fourth network.” DuMont had already ceased broadcasting regularly scheduled programming about a year previous, but still used the network feed for occasional sporting events.
1973: Washington Post journalist Sally Quinn begins her short, ill-fated venture into television, as co-host (with the gruff and avuncular Hughes Rudd) of the CBS Morning News. The stars (both celestial and human) are misaligned from the start. Quinn’s inauspicious debut was complicated by a bout of the flu (she collapsed from dehydration just 90 minutes prior to airtime on her first day), and the death of Rudd’s mother forced the rookie to anchor solo on the very next day. She would leave CBS just six months later.
1976: Actress Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster) is born in Glendora, California.
1991: Journalist Harry Reasoner dies in Westport, Connecticut, aged 68.
1993: The final two network episodes of Perfect Strangers are aired back-to-back on ABC.
1993: After 43 years, The Joe Franklin Show airs its final episode on WWOR-TV. The show had begun on WABC-TV in 1950, and moved to (then) WOR-TV 12 years later.
2006: NFL football returns to NBC (8 years after losing broadcast rights to CBS), in the first telecast of NBC Sunday Night Football.
(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…..)
