Just a few random TV related events that happened on July 12. Discuss or comment as you please……
1908: The “Thief of Bad Gags” first sees the light of the world: Milton Berle is born (as Mendel Berlinger) in New York City.
1937: Actor/comedian/Coke and Pudding Pop pusher Bill Cosby is born in Philadelphia.
1951: Actress Cheryl Ladd (Charlie’s Angels) is born (as Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor) in Huron, South Dakota.
1951: CBS demonstrates its soon to be obsolete field-sequential color TV system to the general public for the first time. The broadcasts are displayed on a 12-inch receiver at a Sears store in Brooklyn, New York.
1953: Idaho’s first TV station, KIDO-TV (later KTVB) begins broadcasting on channel 7 in Boise.
1953: WNAO-TV (channel 28) signs on as the first TV station in North Carolina’s “Triangle” (Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville). They would go dark in 1959, and eventually be reborn as WRDU-TV in 1969. (There is a schedule and discussion of this station in a recent thread on this board.)
1960: XEWT (channel 12) signs on for the first time and becomes Tijuana’s (and San Diego’s) first Spanish TV station. (XETV, which had already been broadcasting from Tijuana for 7 years, was an English-language “rim-shotter” from the start).
1970: Evening at Pops airs for the first time on PBS.
1990: Northern Exposure premieres on CBS.
1996: NBC news journalist John Chancellor dies in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 68.
2002: Monk debuts on the USA Network.
(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…..)
1908: The “Thief of Bad Gags” first sees the light of the world: Milton Berle is born (as Mendel Berlinger) in New York City.
1937: Actor/comedian/Coke and Pudding Pop pusher Bill Cosby is born in Philadelphia.
1951: Actress Cheryl Ladd (Charlie’s Angels) is born (as Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor) in Huron, South Dakota.
1951: CBS demonstrates its soon to be obsolete field-sequential color TV system to the general public for the first time. The broadcasts are displayed on a 12-inch receiver at a Sears store in Brooklyn, New York.
1953: Idaho’s first TV station, KIDO-TV (later KTVB) begins broadcasting on channel 7 in Boise.
1953: WNAO-TV (channel 28) signs on as the first TV station in North Carolina’s “Triangle” (Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville). They would go dark in 1959, and eventually be reborn as WRDU-TV in 1969. (There is a schedule and discussion of this station in a recent thread on this board.)
1960: XEWT (channel 12) signs on for the first time and becomes Tijuana’s (and San Diego’s) first Spanish TV station. (XETV, which had already been broadcasting from Tijuana for 7 years, was an English-language “rim-shotter” from the start).
1970: Evening at Pops airs for the first time on PBS.
1990: Northern Exposure premieres on CBS.
1996: NBC news journalist John Chancellor dies in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 68.
2002: Monk debuts on the USA Network.
(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…..)
