Just a few random TV related events that happened on March 26. Discuss or comment as you please……
1929: Experimental TV station W2XR, owned by John V.L. Logan in Long Island City, New York, goes on the air, transmitting television and facsimile pictures at 2100 to 2200 kHz.
1931: Actor Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, In Search of...) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1949: Actress Vicki Lawrence (The Carol Burnett Show, Mama’s Family) is born (as Vicki Ann Axelrad) in Inglewood, California.
1950: Actor Tony Pappenfuss (Newhart) is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1950: Actor Ernest Lee Thomas (What’s Happening!!) is born in Gary, Indiana.
1955: CHEX-TV (channel 12) begins broadcasting in Peterborough, Ontario.
1957: Talk show host Leeza Gibbons is born in Hartsville, South Carolina.
1959: Journalist Chris Hansen (Dateline NBC) is born in Lansing, Michigan.
1962: WMHT (channel 17) signs on in Schenectady. New York as the Capital District's first public television station.
1973: The Young and the Restless and The $10,000 Pyramid premiere on CBS.
1973: NBC premieres Baffle, a game show that is basically a reworked version of PDQ.
1978: A massive ice storm brings down the towers of WAND (channel 17, Decatur, Illinois) and the defunct WJJY-TV (channel 14, Jacksonville, Illinois). Ice as thick as three feet had built up on the masts. The towers were topped by the only two experimental RCA “Zee-Vee” UHF antennas ever put into service. The WJJY mast, while unused for nearly seven years at the time of the storm, had been intended for use by WJPT, the PBS station that was gearing up to occupy channel 14. The collapse delayed WJPT’s sign-on for several years.
1979: A pre-NBA match-up between longtime rivals Larry Bird and Magic Johnson garners the highest TV ratings ever for a college basketball game, as Johnson’s Michigan State Spartans beat Bird’s Indiana State Sycamores 75-64 in the NCAA championship game.
1982: Search for Tomorrow ends its 30-year run on CBS, and would move to NBC starting the following Monday.
1989: Quantum Leap debuts on NBC.
1992: CBC journalist Barbara Frum (The Journal) dies of leukemia in Toronto, Ontario.
1995: “There is nothing wrong with your television set...” A revival of The Outer Limits debuts on Showtime.
2005: Nine years after its last new episode, and sixteen years since its last regular run, Doctor Who returns to BBC1.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits. 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…..)
1929: Experimental TV station W2XR, owned by John V.L. Logan in Long Island City, New York, goes on the air, transmitting television and facsimile pictures at 2100 to 2200 kHz.
1931: Actor Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, In Search of...) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1949: Actress Vicki Lawrence (The Carol Burnett Show, Mama’s Family) is born (as Vicki Ann Axelrad) in Inglewood, California.
1950: Actor Tony Pappenfuss (Newhart) is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1950: Actor Ernest Lee Thomas (What’s Happening!!) is born in Gary, Indiana.
1955: CHEX-TV (channel 12) begins broadcasting in Peterborough, Ontario.
1957: Talk show host Leeza Gibbons is born in Hartsville, South Carolina.
1959: Journalist Chris Hansen (Dateline NBC) is born in Lansing, Michigan.
1962: WMHT (channel 17) signs on in Schenectady. New York as the Capital District's first public television station.
1973: The Young and the Restless and The $10,000 Pyramid premiere on CBS.
1973: NBC premieres Baffle, a game show that is basically a reworked version of PDQ.
1978: A massive ice storm brings down the towers of WAND (channel 17, Decatur, Illinois) and the defunct WJJY-TV (channel 14, Jacksonville, Illinois). Ice as thick as three feet had built up on the masts. The towers were topped by the only two experimental RCA “Zee-Vee” UHF antennas ever put into service. The WJJY mast, while unused for nearly seven years at the time of the storm, had been intended for use by WJPT, the PBS station that was gearing up to occupy channel 14. The collapse delayed WJPT’s sign-on for several years.
1979: A pre-NBA match-up between longtime rivals Larry Bird and Magic Johnson garners the highest TV ratings ever for a college basketball game, as Johnson’s Michigan State Spartans beat Bird’s Indiana State Sycamores 75-64 in the NCAA championship game.
1982: Search for Tomorrow ends its 30-year run on CBS, and would move to NBC starting the following Monday.
1989: Quantum Leap debuts on NBC.
1992: CBC journalist Barbara Frum (The Journal) dies of leukemia in Toronto, Ontario.
1995: “There is nothing wrong with your television set...” A revival of The Outer Limits debuts on Showtime.
2005: Nine years after its last new episode, and sixteen years since its last regular run, Doctor Who returns to BBC1.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits. 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…..)