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Fenruary 3: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on February 3. Discuss or comment as you please……

1918: Comedian Joey Bishop is born (as Joseph Abraham Gottlieb) in Bronx, New York.

1926: Comedian Shelley Berman is born in Chicago.

1945: Producer/TV executive Don Ohlmeyer is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1950: Actress Morgan Fairchild (Search for Tomorrow, Flamingo Road, Falcon Crest) is born in Dallas, Texas.

1965: Actress Maura Tierney (NewsRadio, ER) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1982: An Evening at the Improv premieres on A&E.

1983: The Greatest American Hero ends a 3-season run on ABC.

1989: Composer Lionel Newman dies in Los Angeles, aged 73. In addition to a long film carrer with 20th Century Fox (in which he worked on over 200 film scores), he also wrote several classic TV themes for Fox, including The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Adventures in Paradise, and Daniel Boone.

1991: Executive Producer Harry Ackerman (Father Knows Best, Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show, Hazel, Gidget, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun, The Monkees, The Partridge Family.....whew!) dies in Burbank, California, aged 78.

1991: Actress Nancy Kulp (The Beverly Hillbillies) dies in Palm Desert, California, aged 69.

1994: Robert Culp and Bill Cosby reprise their classic TV roles as Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott in the CBS TV-Movie I Spy Returns.

1996: Actress Audrey Meadows (The Honeymooners) dies in Beverly Hills, California, aged 69.

2006: Actor Al Lewis (Car 54 Where Are You?, The Munsters) dies in New York City, aged 82. Pet Peeve Department: Although he is almost universally referred to as having portrayed “Grandpa Munster,” his character’s surname was, of course, Dracula. (And, for that matter. why did everyone call him “Grandpa?” He’s Lily’s father and Herman’s father-in-law, and Marilyn’s, what, Great Uncle or something? Technically, he’s only “Grandpa” to Eddie. Then again, on The Beverly Hillbillies, Granny was “Granny” to everyone, irrespective of relationship. I’m getting a headache...gotta stop overthinking these things...) ::)

2006: Actress Jean Byron (The Patty Duke Show) dies in Mobile, Alabama, aged 80.

2006: The 1078 foot transmitter tower of KLTV (channel 7 analog, 10 DTV, Tyler, Texas) at Red Springs, about ten miles north of Tyler, collapses, taking both analog and digital OTA signals off the air. Within 13 hours of the collapse, KLTV would re-established analog broadcasts at reduced power from its former transmitter site, and install a new Harris transmitter the next day, allowing resumption of high-power broadcasts in time for the broadcast of Super Bowl XL.

2008: Fox's telecast of Super Bowl XLII surpasses Super Bowl XXX as the most watched Super Bowl game on television. It also becomes the second most watched television program (trailing the 1983 M*A*S*H series finale) and the highest rated telecast in Nielsen ratings since Super Bowl XXXIV.

(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…..) ;)
 
On 2/3/59 one of the employees on the staff at Mason City, Iowa's KGLO-TV was a woman named DeeAnn Peterson. At the time she worked at KGLO's accounting department. Chances are you may not know who she was but chances are you know what happened to her husband during the early morning hours of 2/3/59. Her husband was Roger Peterson, a local pilot. Early that morning Roger was asked to fly three singers to a gig in Fargo, North Dakota. Those three singers? Buddy Holly, JP Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) and Ritchie Valens.

Of course everyone knows what happened.
 
Re: February 3: This Day in TV History

Note that these events actually took place in a parallel universe -- one in which the second month of the year is spelled "Fenruary."

I never took a typing class, BTW....could you tell?
 
firepoint525 said:
Mason City, Iowa, had a TV station in 1959? Weren't they a small town back then? Aren't they still a small town? Do they still have a TV station? ???
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They've had a station on channel 3 since 1954. It was KGLO-TV (co-owned with the major local AM station) from signon; at some point the call letters changed to KIMT, probably around 1980 +/- when it was sold separately from the radio station. It's still on today, as the CBS affiliate for Mason City and the Minnesota cities of Rochester, Austin, and Albert Lea.

According to the 1959 Broadcasting Yearbook there were 16,600 homes in Cerro Gordo County. According to the 2000 Census there are 19,374 today. The current population of Mason City is about 28,000 & I'm sure Clear Lake at the other end of the county accounts for a few thousand more. So especially when joined by the Minnesota cities in the market, it's big enough to support a station.

Sometime in the 1970s, the state of Iowa launched a PBS transmitter in the area. It's licensed to Mason City as well; the calls are KYIN and it broadcasts on channel 24 from KIMT's tower. Both stations' digital antennas share a *different* tower roughly six miles north of the existing tower.
 
w9wi said:
firepoint525 said:
Mason City, Iowa, had a TV station in 1959? Weren't they a small town back then? Aren't they still a small town? Do they still have a TV station? ???
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They've had a station on channel 3 since 1954. It was KGLO-TV (co-owned with the major local AM station) from signon; at some point the call letters changed to KIMT, probably around 1980 +/- when it was sold separately from the radio station. It's still on today, as the CBS affiliate for Mason City and the Minnesota cities of Rochester, Austin, and Albert Lea.

According to the 1959 Broadcasting Yearbook there were 16,600 homes in Cerro Gordo County. According to the 2000 Census there are 19,374 today. The current population of Mason City is about 28,000 & I'm sure Clear Lake at the other end of the county accounts for a few thousand more. So especially when joined by the Minnesota cities in the market, it's big enough to support a station.

Sometime in the 1970s, the state of Iowa launched a PBS transmitter in the area. It's licensed to Mason City as well; the calls are KYIN and it broadcasts on channel 24 from KIMT's tower. Both stations' digital antennas share a *different* tower roughly six miles north of the existing tower.
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And Mason City's KIMT-3 (which KGLO was renamed in 1977) is also the station that employed Jodi Huisentruit as an anchor at the time of her June 1995 disappearance (she was presumed dead in 2001). More info at:

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1326dfia.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Huisentruit (I apologize in advance for the Wikipedia link, but little time this morning to do more research)
 
Stanislav said:
2006: The 1078 foot transmitter tower of KLTV (channel 7 analog, 10 DTV, Tyler, Texas) at Red Springs, about ten miles north of Tyler, collapses, taking both analog and digital OTA signals off the air. Within 13 hours of the collapse, KLTV would re-established analog broadcasts at reduced power from its former transmitter site, and install a new Harris transmitter the next day, allowing resumption of high-power broadcasts in time for the broadcast of Super Bowl XL.
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In the 'KLTV/7 pictures' section of the Facebook link below, there is a distant pic of the replacement tower (unfortunately, I've not been close enough to get a better pic than this, hopefully that will be rectified in the not too distant future), plus I just found the archived local-angle article about the collapse:

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20060203/ARC/602030332
 
2006: Actor Al Lewis (Car 54 Where Are You?, The Munsters) dies in New York City, aged 82.
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I thought he was way older than that, but good ol' IMDB says he was born in 1923.

He was also a frequent Howard Stern guest in his later years.
 
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