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January 10: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on January 10. Discuss or comment as you please……

1948: Actor William Sanderson (Newhart) is born in Memphis, Tennessee.

1954: CBMT (channel 6) launches in Montreal, Quebec, making that city the first in Canada to have 2 operating TV stations. The new station operates in English, allowing CBFT (channel 2) to ditch its split schedule and broadcast 100% en français.

1965: WKBD-TV (channel 50) begins operating in Detroit, Michigan.

1971: Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS.

1980: Jim Rockford solves his last case (well, except for the ones he solves in the later 1990’s TV-movies) as The Rockford Files airs its 122nd and last network episode on NBC.

1981: Actor Richard Boone (Have Gun Will Travel, Hec Ramsey) dies in St. Augustine, Florida, aged 63.

1982: The afterlife becomes considerably gayer (and TV a lot less funny) as actor and longtime Hollywood Squares denizen Paul Lynde dies of a heart attack, aged 55.

1983: Fraggle Rock premieres on HBO.

1997: Producer/director Sheldon Leonard (The Andy Griffith Show, The Danny Thomas Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy) dies in Beverly Hills, California, aged 55.

2005: At 1:42 am, channel 13 in Rochester, New York signs off the air as WOKR, and returns at 4:59 am as WHAM-TV. The calls are very familiar to older Rochester TV viewers, having been used on channel 8 from 1949 to 1956. Oh yeah, and maybe familiar to all because WHAM radio (1180 kHz) has been on the air, like, forever. (OK, not quite. Since 1922, though...)

(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…..) ;)
 
1982: One of the most famous moments in Television sports history occurs during CBS's telecast of the NFC Championship game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Facing a 3rd Down and 3 at the Dallas 6 with :58 seconds to play and trailing 27-21, 49ers QB Joe Montana, trying to elude a heavy Cowboys rush, lofts a pass toward the back of the end zone. Out of nowhere, TE Dwight Clark jumps up and makes a leaping grab and hauls the pass in for the game winning touchdown. This play led to the 49ers first appearance in the Super Bowl a couple of weeks later. The play has come to be known as "The Catch".

Vin Scully was the CBS announcer that day, as he and Hank Stram were given the NFC Championship game as a "consolation prize" as 2 weeks later Pat Summerall & John Madden made their first appearance together at Super Bowl XVI,in which the 49ers defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 26-21.

Earlier in the day, NBC broadcast what has come to be known as the coldest game in NFL history(in terms of wind chill). The AFC Championship featured the San Diego Chargers & Cincinnati Bengals in -9 degree weather at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. The wind chill factor calculated as -59 degrees. One week earlier, the Chargers had outlasted the Miami Dolphins at the Orange Bowl in the 85 degree heat & humidity of South Florida. San Diego was no match for the elements or the Bengals as Cincinnati rolled to an easy 27-7 victory. Dick Enberg & Merlin Olsen had the call on NBC-TV.
 
Stanislav said:
Just a few random TV related events that happened on January 10. Discuss or comment as you please……


1997: Producer/director Sheldon Leonard (The Andy Griffith Show, The Danny Thomas Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy) dies in Beverly Hills, California, aged 55.
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The great Sheldon Leonard died in 1997, but he was way over 55 - just a few weeks short of his 90th birthday
(February 22, 1907 – January 10, 1997).

He was also a very decent actor - he could play comedy, but was best at playing menacing roles. He would have done well with a role in The Sopranos. He played one of those recurring eccentric characters on The Jack Benny Program...one of those guys like Mel Blanc and Frank Nelson who popped up to drive Benny crazy.
 
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2005: At 1:42 am, channel 13 in Rochester, New York signs off the air as WOKR, and returns at 4:59 am as WHAM-TV. The calls are very familiar to older Rochester TV viewers, having been used on channel 8 from 1949 to 1956. Oh yeah, and maybe familiar to all because WHAM radio (1180 kHz) has been on the air, like, forever. (OK, not quite. Since 1922, though...)


In the sake of accuracy....the WHAM calls were on channel 6 and stayed there until 1954, when it moved to channel 5 because of what I believe was interference with a proposed Canadian station.

Stromberg- Carlson sold the station in late '56, when the calls were changed to WROC, which they are to this day.

In 1962, a channel swap between which was then WHEN in Syracuse and WROC happened- WHEN took channel 5 (which allowed what was then WNYS to begin broadcasting on channel 9) and WROC went to channel 8 (they were still NBC then....CBS came much later).

Funny how both the ABC outlets in Syracuse and Rochester have grabbed heritage calls- WHAM and WSYR- but, at the same time, they are both owned by the same group.

Nitpicking done....someone has to pick the nits in this world.
 
The great Sheldon Leonard died in 1997, but he was way over 55 - just a few weeks short of his 90th birthday
(February 22, 1907 – January 10, 1997).

He was also a very decent actor - he could play comedy, but was best at playing menacing roles. He would have done well with a role in The Sopranos. He played one of those recurring eccentric characters on The Jack Benny Program...one of those guys like Mel Blanc and Frank Nelson who popped up to drive Benny crazy.

It was Sheldon Leonard who uttered those immortal words to Jack Benny.... Your money or your life, to which Benny replied, I'm thinking it over!
Also, I don't think it has been mentioned he played Danny Thomas's agent on Make Room For Daddy.
 
Smittian said:
1982: One of the most famous moments in Television sports history occurs during CBS's telecast of the NFC Championship game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Facing a 3rd Down and 3 at the Dallas 6 with :58 seconds to play and trailing 27-21, 49ers QB Joe Montana, trying to elude a heavy Cowboys rush, lofts a pass toward the back of the end zone. Out of nowhere, TE Dwight Clark jumps up and makes a leaping grab and hauls the pass in for the game winning touchdown. This play led to the 49ers first appearance in the Super Bowl a couple of weeks later. The play has come to be known as "The Catch".

Vin Scully was the CBS announcer that day, as he and Hank Stram were given the NFC Championship game as a "consolation prize" as 2 weeks later Pat Summerall & John Madden made their first appearance together at Super Bowl XVI,in which the 49ers defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 26-21.

Earlier in the day, NBC broadcast what has come to be known as the coldest game in NFL history(in terms of wind chill). The AFC Championship featured the San Diego Chargers & Cincinnati Bengals in -9 degree weather at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. The wind chill factor calculated as -59 degrees. One week earlier, the Chargers had outlasted the Miami Dolphins at the Orange Bowl in the 85 degree heat & humidity of South Florida. San Diego was no match for the elements or the Bengals as Cincinnati rolled to an easy 27-7 victory. Dick Enberg & Merlin Olsen had the call on NBC-TV.
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Here's an NFL Network tribute to "The Catch," with the opening of the video very appropriate: "It marked the end of a dynasty, and the beginning of another." (The 49ers went on to win Super Bowl XVI and more titles in 1985, 1989 and 1990--plus 1995, and are generally considered the "Team of the '80s" in the NFL).
 
therealjm12 said:
The great Sheldon Leonard died in 1997, but he was way over 55 - just a few weeks short of his 90th birthday
(February 22, 1907 – January 10, 1997).

He was also a very decent actor - he could play comedy, but was best at playing menacing roles. He would have done well with a role in The Sopranos. He played one of those recurring eccentric characters on The Jack Benny Program...one of those guys like Mel Blanc and Frank Nelson who popped up to drive Benny crazy.

It was Sheldon Leonard who uttered those immortal words to Jack Benny.... Your money or your life, to which Benny replied, I'm thinking it over!
Also, I don't think it has been mentioned he played Danny Thomas's agent on Make Room For Daddy.
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"Your money or your life" was staged on radio in 1948 and again on television in 1956. In one of them (I think the radio one) the holdup man was played by actor Eddie Marr.
 
Tim from Springfield said:
Smittian said:
1982: One of the most famous moments in Television sports history occurs during CBS's telecast of the NFC Championship game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Facing a 3rd Down and 3 at the Dallas 6 with :58 seconds to play and trailing 27-21, 49ers QB Joe Montana, trying to elude a heavy Cowboys rush, lofts a pass toward the back of the end zone. Out of nowhere, TE Dwight Clark jumps up and makes a leaping grab and hauls the pass in for the game winning touchdown. This play led to the 49ers first appearance in the Super Bowl a couple of weeks later. The play has come to be known as "The Catch".

Vin Scully was the CBS announcer that day, as he and Hank Stram were given the NFC Championship game as a "consolation prize" as 2 weeks later Pat Summerall & John Madden made their first appearance together at Super Bowl XVI,in which the 49ers defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 26-21.

Earlier in the day, NBC broadcast what has come to be known as the coldest game in NFL history(in terms of wind chill). The AFC Championship featured the San Diego Chargers & Cincinnati Bengals in -9 degree weather at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. The wind chill factor calculated as -59 degrees. One week earlier, the Chargers had outlasted the Miami Dolphins at the Orange Bowl in the 85 degree heat & humidity of South Florida. San Diego was no match for the elements or the Bengals as Cincinnati rolled to an easy 27-7 victory. Dick Enberg & Merlin Olsen had the call on NBC-TV.
Click to expand...

Here's an NFL Network tribute to "The Catch," with the opening of the video very appropriate: "The next play marked the end of a dynasty, and the beginning of another." (The 49ers went on to win Super Bowl XVI and more titles in 1985, 1989 and 1990--plus 1995, and are generally considered the "Team of the '80s" in the NFL).
Click to expand...

Forgot the link to the YouTube video with the above quote this morning--but here is the NFL Network tribute to "The Catch":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-LmPFHgE3k
 
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