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June 2: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on June 2 (which appears to have been a busy day in TV history!). Discuss or comment as you please……

1941: Actor Stacy Keach (Mike Hammer, Prison Break) is born in Savannah, Georgia..

1953: CBOT (channel 4) begins broadcasting in Ottawa, Ontario. It is Canada’s third TV station.

1953: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is broadcast by the BBC, an event that stimulated massive new sales of TV sets in the weeks leading up to the event. It is one of the first TV events deliberately recorded to be saved for posterity, being filmed as a kinescope (a copy of which was rushed by air to be broadcast in the U.S. and Canada).

[The timing of the last two makes me wonder -- was CBOT's start date also being the date of the Coronation just a coincidence, or planned? Canada was, after all, still very much a part of the British Empire at the time, and there would have been a lot of interest in her capital in seeing the Coronation on TV, no?]

1959: The final original episode of Walt Disney’s Zorro, starring Guy Williams, is broadcast by ABC.

1968: WBLG-TV signs-on on channel 62 as Lexington, Kentucky’s ABC affiliate. At the time, it occupied one of the highest UHF channels of any full-power TV station in the country. Calls changed to WTVQ-TV 6 years later, and the station moved down the dial to channel 36 in 1980.

1969: The final network episode of Peyton Place is broadcast by ABC.

1978: Actress Nikki Cox (Unhappily Ever After, Las Vegas) is born in Los Angeles.

1988: The tower of KTVO (channel 3 Kirksville/Ottumwa) collapses, killing three technicians. The station is able to return to air from temporary facilities in just 30 hours.

1996: Ray Combs, 40, game show host best known for hosting Family Feud and the cable show Family Challenge, commits suicide by hanging himself with bedsheets in a psychiatric hospital. He leaves an estranged wife and six children. The family’s funeral expenses are later paid by a $25,000 donation from Johnny Carson.

1999: The Bhutan Broadcasting Service launches a TV channel, ending the King’s decades-old ban on television in the landlocked and isolated South Asian country.

2001: Comic actress Imogene Coca (Your Show of Shows, Grindl, It’s About Time) dies in Westport, Connecticut, aged 92.

2004: Ken Jennings begins his long run as a contestant on Jeopardy!, ultimately accumulating $3,022,700 in winnings.

(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:
1953: CBOT (channel 4) begins broadcasting in Ottawa, Ontario. It is Canada’s third TV station.

1953: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is broadcast by the BBC, an event that stimulated massive new sales of TV sets in the weeks leading up to the event. It is one of the first TV events deliberately recorded to be saved for posterity, being filmed as a kinescope (a copy of which was rushed by air to be broadcast in the U.S. and Canada).

[The timing of the last two makes me wonder -- was CBOT's start date also being the date of the Coronation just a coincidence, or planned? Canada was, after all, still very much a part of the British Empire at the time, and there would have been a lot of interest in her capital in seeing the Coronation on TV, no?]
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I know that the first telecast on CBOT was the Coronation, and I would assume that CBC got that station on the air in time for that.
 
M.J. said:
I know that the first telecast on CBOT was the Coronation, and I would assume that CBC got that station on the air in time for that.
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I'm inclined to think so as well, especially when I researched the "This Day" factoids for June 3 (q.v.) and found that this was definitely the case with KVOS-12, where they moved heaven and earth to get the film there (and the station on-air) on time to broadcast the Coronation to the Vancouver area.
 
Is the story true that ABC beat CBS and NBC
to the air with film of the Coronation simply by
picking up the CBC feed from Montreal while
the bigger networks were flying, and processing,
the film across the Atlantic?
 
Also born on June 2:

1948: Jerry Mathers

1955: Dana Carvey

1972: Wayne Brady (actor/comedian and former talk show host)

An anniversary of another TV-related passing on June 2 (from the wrestling world):

2003: "Classy" Fred Blassie (born 1918)
 
bpatrick said:
Is the story true that ABC beat CBS and NBC
to the air with film of the Coronation simply by
picking up the CBC feed from Montreal while
the bigger networks were flying, and processing,
the film across the Atlantic?
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Yes it really was ABC who won the race but according to the 1953 Yearbook, despite that NBC went on to take the credit anyway by claiming they were the first.
ABC wasn't happy about that.


Stanislav said:
1996: Ray Combs, 40, game show host best known for hosting Family Feud and the cable show Family Challenge, commits suicide by hanging himself with bedsheets in a psychiatric hospital. He leaves an estranged wife and six children. The family’s funeral expenses are later paid by a $25,000 donation from Johnny Carson.
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Between the time Combs was dumped from Family Feud and the time of his death, there were rumors going around the press back then about Combs suffering from severe mental problems such as the act of beating the crap...out of himself. One story that went around just before his death that was reported in the tabolids like the National Enquier but also was picked up on Imus and a number of other radio shows back then was that when Combs was informed that Richard Dawson was coming back to host Family Feud, Combs was so upset about the news that he grabbed a pencil from a desk and started to stab himself in the face. Another story that the taboilds back then was reporting was how some contestant on Family Feud made some comment to Ray like "..I liked Richard Dawson better" only to have Combs say "..so you think I am white trash? I AM WHITE TRASH !!" then Ray started to slap himself across the face, hard enough to draw blood. Taping had to be suspended for a few hours so Combs could be cleaned up.

Now since we are talking "Imus" and the "National Enquier" here, yeah one should take stories like these with a grain of salt as far as if Ray Combs himself did such things. However the act of one hitting themselves like the stabbing of one self in the face with a pencil is a REAL PROBLEM and sadly there are millions of people who suffer from this. I had a cousin who was among those people and like Combs, she has since committed suicide.
 
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