Just a few random TV related events that happened on January 23. Discuss or comment as you please……
1919: Actor/comedian Ernie Kovacs is born in Trenton, New Jersey.
1923: Actress Florence Halop (St. Elsewhere, Night Court) is born in Queens, New York.
1933: Experimental TV station W9XAL begins transmissions in Kansas City, Missouri on 2.75-2.85 mHz.
1939: Actress Arlene Golonka (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D.) is born in Chicago.
1943: Actor Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) is born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1950: Actor Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver, Stargate SG-1) is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His Gopher State roots were reflected in his two most famous roles, as both Angus MacGyver and Jack O’Neill were also referred to as hailing from Minnesota.
1955: KLRJ-TV (channel 2) begins broadcasting in Henderson, Nevada. Not long after, the station would change its calls to KORK-TV (now KVBC) and its city of license to Las Vegas. In 1967, it would move to channel 3 to avoid interference with newly signed-on KTVN in Reno.
1974: Actress Tiffany Thiessen (Saved by the Bell, Beverly Hills 90210) is born (as Tiffany-Amber Thiessen) in Long Beach, California. (For those who may be confused, she dropped the “Amber” from her professional name several years ago
1976: Donny & Marie premieres on ABC.
1977: The 8-part miniseries Roots debuts on ABC. The final episode is still ranked by Nielsen as the 3rd-highest rated TV program ever.
1983: The A-Team premieres on NBC.
1991: Demonstrators from an AIDS activist group break into the CBS News studio and begin chanting just as Dan Rather begins speaking during the beginning of the CBS Evening News. (One protester was even seen on camera briefly.) Rather immediately calls for a commercial break and later apologizes to viewers about the incident.
1994: CBS, which had broadcast NFL games since 1956, airs its final game (the NFC Championship Game), having lost its NFL rights to the fledgling Fox Network. CBS however, would regain NFL rights (taking over the AFC package from NBC) in 1998.
2003: Actress Nell Carter (Gimme a Break!) dies in Beverly Hills of heart disease complicated by diabetes, aged 54. She had previously survived two brain aneurysms.
2004: Actor Bob Keeshan (Howdy Doody, Captain Kangaroo) dies in Windsor, Vermont, aged 76.
2005: Johnny Carson dies in Los Angeles, aged 79.
(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…..)
1919: Actor/comedian Ernie Kovacs is born in Trenton, New Jersey.
1923: Actress Florence Halop (St. Elsewhere, Night Court) is born in Queens, New York.
1933: Experimental TV station W9XAL begins transmissions in Kansas City, Missouri on 2.75-2.85 mHz.
1939: Actress Arlene Golonka (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D.) is born in Chicago.
1943: Actor Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) is born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1950: Actor Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver, Stargate SG-1) is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His Gopher State roots were reflected in his two most famous roles, as both Angus MacGyver and Jack O’Neill were also referred to as hailing from Minnesota.
1955: KLRJ-TV (channel 2) begins broadcasting in Henderson, Nevada. Not long after, the station would change its calls to KORK-TV (now KVBC) and its city of license to Las Vegas. In 1967, it would move to channel 3 to avoid interference with newly signed-on KTVN in Reno.
1974: Actress Tiffany Thiessen (Saved by the Bell, Beverly Hills 90210) is born (as Tiffany-Amber Thiessen) in Long Beach, California. (For those who may be confused, she dropped the “Amber” from her professional name several years ago
1976: Donny & Marie premieres on ABC.
1977: The 8-part miniseries Roots debuts on ABC. The final episode is still ranked by Nielsen as the 3rd-highest rated TV program ever.
1983: The A-Team premieres on NBC.
1991: Demonstrators from an AIDS activist group break into the CBS News studio and begin chanting just as Dan Rather begins speaking during the beginning of the CBS Evening News. (One protester was even seen on camera briefly.) Rather immediately calls for a commercial break and later apologizes to viewers about the incident.
1994: CBS, which had broadcast NFL games since 1956, airs its final game (the NFC Championship Game), having lost its NFL rights to the fledgling Fox Network. CBS however, would regain NFL rights (taking over the AFC package from NBC) in 1998.
2003: Actress Nell Carter (Gimme a Break!) dies in Beverly Hills of heart disease complicated by diabetes, aged 54. She had previously survived two brain aneurysms.
2004: Actor Bob Keeshan (Howdy Doody, Captain Kangaroo) dies in Windsor, Vermont, aged 76.
2005: Johnny Carson dies in Los Angeles, aged 79.
(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…..)
