Just a few random TV related events that happened on February 10. Discuss or comment as you please……
1930: Actor Robert Wagner (It Takes a Thief, Switch, Hart to Hart) is born in Detroit, Michigan. DYK: One of the odd jobs Wagner performed as a struggling young actor wannabe was caddying for Clark Gable.
1947: The BBC Television Service begins a 30-day off-air hiatus due to a post-war national fuel crisis in the U.K.
1964: WBGU-TV (channel 70) begins operating from Bowling Green University in Ohio. (The official city of license was originally Lima, later changed to Bowling Green.) They would move to channel 57 in 1973, and to channel 27 in 1986. WBGU-TV is also one of a handful of stations that killed their analog transmissions in advance of the original February 17, 2009 cutoff date – they have operated DTV-only since December 15, 2008.
1964: Fox News political commentator Glenn Beck is born in Mount Vernon, Washington.
1985: CBS airs the first part of the 2-episode miniseries The Atlanta Child Murders. After an advance screening, Atlanta officials had complained that the drama distorted the facts of the case; after negotiations, the network agreed to insert a disclaimer alerting viewers that the film is based on fact, but contains fictional elements.
1993: Oprah Winfrey interviews Michael Jackson during a prime time special. It is Jackson's first TV interview since 1979.
2000: Actor Jim Varney (Hey Vern! It’s Ernest! + about 90 gazillion local “Ernest” commercials) dies of lung cancer in White House, Tennessee, aged 50.
2008: Producer/writer Ron Leavitt (Married...with Children, Unhappily Ever After) dies of cancer in Sherman Oaks, California, aged 60.
2008: Actor Roy Scheider (seaQuest) dies of multiple myeloma and complications from a staph infection in Little Rock, Arkansas, aged 75.
(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…..)
1930: Actor Robert Wagner (It Takes a Thief, Switch, Hart to Hart) is born in Detroit, Michigan. DYK: One of the odd jobs Wagner performed as a struggling young actor wannabe was caddying for Clark Gable.
1947: The BBC Television Service begins a 30-day off-air hiatus due to a post-war national fuel crisis in the U.K.
1964: WBGU-TV (channel 70) begins operating from Bowling Green University in Ohio. (The official city of license was originally Lima, later changed to Bowling Green.) They would move to channel 57 in 1973, and to channel 27 in 1986. WBGU-TV is also one of a handful of stations that killed their analog transmissions in advance of the original February 17, 2009 cutoff date – they have operated DTV-only since December 15, 2008.
1964: Fox News political commentator Glenn Beck is born in Mount Vernon, Washington.
1985: CBS airs the first part of the 2-episode miniseries The Atlanta Child Murders. After an advance screening, Atlanta officials had complained that the drama distorted the facts of the case; after negotiations, the network agreed to insert a disclaimer alerting viewers that the film is based on fact, but contains fictional elements.
1993: Oprah Winfrey interviews Michael Jackson during a prime time special. It is Jackson's first TV interview since 1979.
2000: Actor Jim Varney (Hey Vern! It’s Ernest! + about 90 gazillion local “Ernest” commercials) dies of lung cancer in White House, Tennessee, aged 50.
2008: Producer/writer Ron Leavitt (Married...with Children, Unhappily Ever After) dies of cancer in Sherman Oaks, California, aged 60.
2008: Actor Roy Scheider (seaQuest) dies of multiple myeloma and complications from a staph infection in Little Rock, Arkansas, aged 75.
(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…..)
