Just a few random TV related events that happened on June 3. Discuss or comment as you please……
1911: Ellen Corby (The Waltons) is born in Racine, Wisconsin. In the 1930’s, she worked as a script girl on many of the “Our Gang” short comedies (alongside her husband, cinematographer Francis Corby).
1929: The first television images in Seattle: KOMO radio engineer Francis J. Brott televises images of a heart, a diamond, a question mark, letters, and numbers over electrical lines to small sets with one-inch screens.
1947: Regular programming commences on Detroit’s WWDT (channel 4). The station had previously broadcast a one-day demonstration of programming some 7 months earlier, earning it the distinction of being Michigan’s first TV station. (Calls later change to WWJ-TV, then WDIV.)
1953: KVOS (channel 12) signs on for the first time in Bellingham, Washington. From the start, the border station targets primarily a Canadian audience – its first broadcast is a kinescope of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The film had been flown to Vancouver, escorted by Mounties to the border, then driven by the Washington State Patrol to Bellingham
1955: KLFY-TV (channel 10) signs-on in Lafayette, Louisiana as a dual ABC/CBS affiliate. (It would drop ABC once KATV-3 began broadcasting in 1962).
1956: Tucson, Arizona’s KGUN-TV (channel 9) begins broadcasting. The station’s call letters are a reflection of owner D.W. Ingram (a rancher) being both a gun collector and a fan of Westerns.
1964: The Rolling Stones make their first U.S. television appearance on ABC’s The Hollywood Palace.
1967: CNN’s Anderson Cooper is born in New York City.
1969: Trekkies mourn as Star Trek airs its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. The series, of course, goes into syndication where it becomes an even bigger phenomenon.
1975: Ozzie Nelson (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet) dies of liver cancer at the age of 69.
1985: Larry King Live premieres on CNN.
1989: At 10:30 p.m. Beijing Time, Chinese troops begin their assault on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Despite the government’s preemptory shutdown of Western broadcasters’ satellite uplink facilities, news reporters continue to report on the attack via telephone, and video footage (including the now iconic images of the lone “unknown rebel” attempting to stop a tank) is physically smuggled out by couriers.
(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…..)
1911: Ellen Corby (The Waltons) is born in Racine, Wisconsin. In the 1930’s, she worked as a script girl on many of the “Our Gang” short comedies (alongside her husband, cinematographer Francis Corby).
1929: The first television images in Seattle: KOMO radio engineer Francis J. Brott televises images of a heart, a diamond, a question mark, letters, and numbers over electrical lines to small sets with one-inch screens.
1947: Regular programming commences on Detroit’s WWDT (channel 4). The station had previously broadcast a one-day demonstration of programming some 7 months earlier, earning it the distinction of being Michigan’s first TV station. (Calls later change to WWJ-TV, then WDIV.)
1953: KVOS (channel 12) signs on for the first time in Bellingham, Washington. From the start, the border station targets primarily a Canadian audience – its first broadcast is a kinescope of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The film had been flown to Vancouver, escorted by Mounties to the border, then driven by the Washington State Patrol to Bellingham
1955: KLFY-TV (channel 10) signs-on in Lafayette, Louisiana as a dual ABC/CBS affiliate. (It would drop ABC once KATV-3 began broadcasting in 1962).
1956: Tucson, Arizona’s KGUN-TV (channel 9) begins broadcasting. The station’s call letters are a reflection of owner D.W. Ingram (a rancher) being both a gun collector and a fan of Westerns.
1964: The Rolling Stones make their first U.S. television appearance on ABC’s The Hollywood Palace.
1967: CNN’s Anderson Cooper is born in New York City.
1969: Trekkies mourn as Star Trek airs its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. The series, of course, goes into syndication where it becomes an even bigger phenomenon.
1975: Ozzie Nelson (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet) dies of liver cancer at the age of 69.
1985: Larry King Live premieres on CNN.
1989: At 10:30 p.m. Beijing Time, Chinese troops begin their assault on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Despite the government’s preemptory shutdown of Western broadcasters’ satellite uplink facilities, news reporters continue to report on the attack via telephone, and video footage (including the now iconic images of the lone “unknown rebel” attempting to stop a tank) is physically smuggled out by couriers.
(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…..)
