Just a few random TV related events that happened on June 15 (a very busy day!). Discuss or comment as you please……
1948: New York City’s WPIX-TV (channel 11) makes its on-air debut. The call letters reflect the slogan of the original owner (New York Daily News); e.g. “New York’s Picture Newspaper.” (“PIX”=pictures)
1949: Actor Jim Varney (Hey Vern, It’s Ernest!) is born in Lexington, Kentucky.
1953: WFAM-TV begins broadcasting in Lafayette, Indiana on channel 59. One of the longest active UHF stations in the country, the station would move to channel 18 in 1957, and change calls to WLFI-TV in 1967.
1963: Actress Helen Hunt (Mad About You) is born in Culver City, California.
1964: Actress Courteney Cox (Misfits of Science, Family Ties, Friends) is born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1969: Hee Haw debuts on CBS. Canceled two years later in the infamous CBS “Rural Purge,” Kornfield Kounty gets its revenge by enduring another 22 years in syndication.
1970: Actress Leah Rimini (King of Queens) is born in Bensonhurst (Brooklyn), New York.
1977: Long-running Canadian Christian talk show 100 Huntley Street first airs.
1983: The debut episode of The Black Adder, the first in the successful “Blackadder” series of sitcoms, is broadcast by BBC One in the U.K.
1983: Taxi ends its network run after 4 seasons on ABC and one on NBC.
1983: The short-lived sitcom Filthy Rich is canned after just 15 episodes on CBS. The show is notable for bringing together Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, and writer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, all of whom would find success 4 years later with Designing Women.
1989: Actor Victor French (Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven) dies in Los Angeles, aged 54.
2006: President George W. Bush signs into law the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005, which raises “indecency” fines tenfold. The legislation is a knee-jerk reaction to the infamous Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” on the Super Bowl XXXVIII broadcast.
(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…..)
1948: New York City’s WPIX-TV (channel 11) makes its on-air debut. The call letters reflect the slogan of the original owner (New York Daily News); e.g. “New York’s Picture Newspaper.” (“PIX”=pictures)
1949: Actor Jim Varney (Hey Vern, It’s Ernest!) is born in Lexington, Kentucky.
1953: WFAM-TV begins broadcasting in Lafayette, Indiana on channel 59. One of the longest active UHF stations in the country, the station would move to channel 18 in 1957, and change calls to WLFI-TV in 1967.
1963: Actress Helen Hunt (Mad About You) is born in Culver City, California.
1964: Actress Courteney Cox (Misfits of Science, Family Ties, Friends) is born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1969: Hee Haw debuts on CBS. Canceled two years later in the infamous CBS “Rural Purge,” Kornfield Kounty gets its revenge by enduring another 22 years in syndication.
1970: Actress Leah Rimini (King of Queens) is born in Bensonhurst (Brooklyn), New York.
1977: Long-running Canadian Christian talk show 100 Huntley Street first airs.
1983: The debut episode of The Black Adder, the first in the successful “Blackadder” series of sitcoms, is broadcast by BBC One in the U.K.
1983: Taxi ends its network run after 4 seasons on ABC and one on NBC.
1983: The short-lived sitcom Filthy Rich is canned after just 15 episodes on CBS. The show is notable for bringing together Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, and writer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, all of whom would find success 4 years later with Designing Women.
1989: Actor Victor French (Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven) dies in Los Angeles, aged 54.
2006: President George W. Bush signs into law the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005, which raises “indecency” fines tenfold. The legislation is a knee-jerk reaction to the infamous Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” on the Super Bowl XXXVIII broadcast.
(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…..)