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July 31: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on July 31. Discuss or comment as you please……

1912: Columnist and TV host Irv Kupcinet (Kup’s Show) is born in (where else?) Chicago. His talk show ran from 1959-1986 and despite his being so intimately associated with Chicago, the show was at one time syndicated to as many as 70 stations across the country.

1919: Sportscaster Curt Gowdy is born in Green River, Wyoming.

1932: Actor Ted Cassidy (The Addams Family) is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1952: Actor Alan Autry (In the Heat of the Night, Grace Under Fire) is born in Shreveport, Louisiana.

1955: KRNT-TV (now KCCI) goes on the air on channel 8 in Des Moines, Iowa.

1955: WHIS-TV (now WVVA) begins broadcasting on channel 6 in Bluefield, West Virginia.

1966: Actor Dean Cain (Lois and Clark) is born in Mount Clemens, Michigan.

1968: Dad's Army begins its nine-year run on BBC1 in the U.K.

1970: Chet Huntley co-anchors his final newscast with David Brinkley on The Huntley-Brinkley Report, and retires. The following Monday, the program is renamed NBC Nightly News.

1995: The Walt Disney Company announces that it will purchase ABC and ESPN.

(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…..) ;)
 
Stanislav said:
Just a few random TV related events that happened on July 31. Discuss or comment as you please……

1912: Columnist and TV host Irv Kupcinet (Kup’s Show) is born in (where else?) Chicago. His talk show ran from 1959-1986 and despite his being so intimately associated with Chicago, the show was at one time syndicated to as many as 70 stations across the country.
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...and, of course, the basic structure of Kup's Show -- Kupcinet would get all his guests sitting around a coffee table at the top of each hour and act as the catalyst to get the guests conversing with each other -- was so good that it was lifted by Bill Maher (Politically Incorrect) and Jon Favreau (Dinner for Five), and even inspired a dramatic series (Steve Allen's Meeting of Minds)...
 
I seem to remember that at different points in the '70's, Kup's Show aired in New York on WNBC-TV and WNYC-TV (but not simultaneously).
 
...Irv Kupcinet's program actualy hopped among each of the network O&Os in Chicago, first in the mid-50s on CBS' WBBM-TV/2 (as "At Random"), then in they '60s on ABC's WBKB-TV/7 (as "The Irv Kupcinet Show," replacing Hugh Hefner's "Playboy's Penthouse" on Saturday nights), then NBC's WMAQ-TV/5 circa '66(as "Kup's Show") and finally stopping at the main PBS station there, WTTW/11, for the late '70s and early-to-mid '80s. This would probably explain the show's appearance on WNBC-TV/4 and WNYC-TV/31 in New York in the '70s...
 
Stanislav said:
1955: KRNT-TV (now KCCI) goes on the air on channel 8 in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Promos commemorating both the 25th (1980) and 50th (2005) anniversaries of KRNT-TV/KCCI have made it onto YouTube--and are a treat to watch although I'm over 5 hours east of Des Moines (but I still enjoy seeing promos/clips for Midwestern TV stations on YouTube too):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD7gy80dbOw&feature=channel (25th)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v34X4NG28I&feature=channel (25th anniversary news promo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUwKYXg8b2w&feature=channel (25th anniversary/Election Night 1980 promo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQUHRZQEDE&feature=related (50th anniversary--with a modern version of the "Proud Tradition" song)
 
Ultimajock said:
...Irv Kupcinet's program actualy hopped among each of the network O&Os in Chicago, first in the mid-50s on CBS' WBBM-TV/2 (as "At Random")...
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At Random continued for several more years on WBBM-TV (I think into the 1970's), with other hosts, after Mr. Kupcinet moved on to host his own shows.
 
No, it was the next day not 8/3/1970 when The Huntley-Brinkley Report became NBC Nightly News. On the last broadcast of H-B ,Chet Huntley told his NBC viewers to "try the NBC Nightly News, which begins tomorrow. It will be in the most capable hands, of David (Brinkley), John Chancellor and Frank Mc Gee." That night was the last night you heard Goodnight Chet,Goodnight David, and goodnight for NBC News for the last time. Then the next day it was Chancellor and Brinkley, then on Sunday, Chancellor and McGee and Monday, Mc Gee and Brinkley, on a round -robin or rotating basis. All 3 anchors did NBC' Decision '70 Election Night Coverage ,and although the ratings were a strong second to Walter Cronkite on CBS, the triad did not work, and Chancellor was made sole anchor in August 1971, with Brinkley doing David Brinkley's Journal on Nightly and Mc Gee going to The Today Show to replace Hugh Downs and cause problems for Barbara Walters. Mc Gee insisted on opening and closing Today by himself and Barbara could not participate in the DC inteviews ,but there later was a compromise in which Barbara could come in and after Frank did 3 questions. And this wa show Barbara Walters went out to get then-President Nixon and his cabinet and big stars like John Wayne.
 
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