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June 9: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on June 9. Discuss or comment as you please……

1939: Sportscaster Dick Vitale is born in Passaic, New Jersey..

1948: WBZ-TV begins broadcasting on channel 4 in Boston as New England’s first commercial TV station. It was also Westinghouse’s first TV station, and the only one to have been built by them (their remaining TV holdings being acquired via purchases of existing stations).

1954: The 30th day of the Army-McCarthy Hearings yields one of live television’s most dramatic moments as Army attorney Joseph Welch confronts Senator Joe McCarthy. (“Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?")

1954: One of many early failed UHF stations, KCTY (channel 25) Kansas City goes dark after less than 8 months on the air, unable to compete against three established VHF stations or to cope with the lack on UHF capabilities of most TV sets.

1957: The Roy Rogers Show airs its 100th and final episode on NBC.

1961: Actor Michael J. Fox (Family Ties, Spin City) is born in Edmonton, Alberta.

1961: Screenwriter and producer Aaron Sorkin (Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) is born in New York City.

1977: The Streets of San Francisco airs its final network episode on ABC.

1981: Legendary game show host Allen Ludden (Password) dies in Los Angeles aged 63 of stomach cancer.

1991: Producer Joe Hamilton (The Carol Burnett Show, Mama’s Family) dies aged 62 of cancer. He was the former husband of Carol Burnett, and father of Carrie Hamilton.

1997: After 259 episodes, the once-controversial Married…With Children airs its series finale on Fox..

2006: After a 9-year run, Meredith Viera makes her final appearance on The View.

(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:
1954: The 30th day of the Army-McCarthy Hearings yields one of live television’s most dramatic moments as Army attorney Joseph Welch confronts Senator Joe McCarthy. (“Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?")

1954: One of many early failed UHF stations, KCTY (channel 25) Kansas City goes dark after less than 8 months on the air, unable to compete against three established VHF stations or to cope with the lack on UHF capabilities of most TV sets.
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...kinescopes of the Army-McCarthy Hearings were edited into the 1963 theatrical documentary film POINT OF ORDER by director Emile de Antonio. Point of trivia about McCarthy -- when Edward R. Murrow did his famous autoexpose of McCarthy on "See it Now," only one Wisconsin station carried it -- WCAN-TV/25 Milwaukee. The station that covered McCarthy's home town of Grand Chute, WBAY-TV/2 from Green Bay, pre-empted the Murrow broadcast for a DuMont wrestling show from Chicago...

...KCTY was the DuMont Network's failed venture into UHF station ownership. Their real success was in owning WDTV/2 in Pittsburgh, which had a virtual monopoly on television in Southwestern Pennsylvania and cherry-picked from the CBS, NBC and ABC schedules as well as guaranteeing clearances for DuMont itself. DuMont folded within two years of selling WDTV to Westinghouse, which turned it into KDKA-TV and affiliated with CBS...
 
Stanislav said:
Just a few random TV related events that happened on June 9. Discuss or comment as you please……

1991: Producer Joe Hamilton (The Carol Burnett Show, Mama’s Family) dies aged 62 of cancer. He was the former husband of Carol Burnett, and father of Carrie Hamilton.
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Shortly after Vicki Lawrence did her short lived synidcated talk show "Vicki", she wrote a bio titled "The True-Life Adventures of Miss Fireball" in which she goes into somewhat great detail about the last days of Joe Hamilton and how that affected the cast of "Mama's Family". Sometime in the late 80's shortly after Hamilton found out he had cancer he was force to have a good chunk of his face removed. I believe he lost his nose and part of his forehead. However instead of having plastic surgery to correct the disfigurement of his face, Hamilton just simply used a paper towel to hide it..and he continued his heavy smoking . The sight of this really distrubed the cast mainly Vicki, Ken Barry and Dorothy Lyman. Interesting when Vicki got news that Joe Hamilton had died...she wasn't invited to attend the funeral and neither was anyone from Mama's Family for that matter. Not sure if Carol herself attended since her and Joe's mid 80's divorce was quite nasty.
 
1873: Alexandra Palace, which would go on to be the first home to BBC's TV production and studios, burns down after just 16 days of being open.

1910: Robert Cummings (The Bob Cummings Show/Love That Bob) is born (as Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings) in Joplin, Missouri.

1951: James Newton Howard (composer of themes for ER, The Sentinel, Gideon's Crossing) is born in Los Angeles.

1964: Gloria Reuben (ER, Missing/1-800-Missing, Raising the Bar) is born in Toronto, Ontario.

1969: Nick Kiriazis (Sunset Beach, Boston Public, Providence, Numb3rs) is born in Madison, Wisconsin.

1986: Adamo Ruggiero (Degrassi:The Next Generation) is born (as Adamo Angelo Ruggiero) in Mississauga, Ontario.

1993: Alexis Smith (Dallas, Cheers) died of brain cancer, in Los Angeles.
 
1947: WNIR mid-day host, Akron radio legend, Ohio University alumnus, former Cleveland Cavaliers public address announcer, and host of the longest running FM talk show in the world, Howie Chizek, is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
 
Stanislav said:
1954: One of many early failed UHF stations, KCTY (channel 25) Kansas City goes dark after less than 8 months on the air, unable to compete against three established VHF stations or to cope with the lack on UHF capabilities of most TV sets.
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In the annals of human short-sightedness, the decision to open up the UHF band but not to require UHF tuners on receivers,
will rank right up there with the decision to use two-digits to record dates on computers.
 
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