Just a few random TV related events that happened on May 15. Discuss or comment as you please……
1948: WATV (channel 13) signs on in Newark, New Jersey. It would later become WNTA-TV, change to non-commercial status as WNDT, then later change calls to the current WNET.
1954: WBAP-TV (channel 5, now KXAS-TV) in Fort Worth, Texas, makes its first local colorcast. They are the 2nd TV station in the U.S. to have local color capability (the first, Milwaukee’s WTMJ-TV, had made its first local color broadcast about 5 weeks before).
1954: KGLO-TV (channel 3, now KIMT) begins broadcasting in Mason City, Iowa.
1970: Actress Lynda Day marries actor Christopher George (she would thereafter be known as Lynda Day George). They would remain married until the sudden death of Christopher in 1983. Lynda would work only sporadically thereafter, re-marry in 1985, and retire from acting in the late 1980s.
1977: The cast of Father Knows Best reunites for the first of 2 TV-movies.
1979: The last first-run Starsky and Hutch airs on ABC.
2007: Evangelist Jerry Falwell (The Old-Time Gospel Hour) dies due to a cardiac arrhythmia in Lynchburg, Virginia, aged 73.
2008: Composer Alexander Courage dies in Pacific Palisades, California, aged 87. He is probably best known for writing the theme music for the original Star Trek series (and some incidental music as well), but he also worked as a composer on such TV shows as The Brothers Brannagan, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Judd for the Defense, Daniel Boone, and The Waltons.
(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…..)
1948: WATV (channel 13) signs on in Newark, New Jersey. It would later become WNTA-TV, change to non-commercial status as WNDT, then later change calls to the current WNET.
1954: WBAP-TV (channel 5, now KXAS-TV) in Fort Worth, Texas, makes its first local colorcast. They are the 2nd TV station in the U.S. to have local color capability (the first, Milwaukee’s WTMJ-TV, had made its first local color broadcast about 5 weeks before).
1954: KGLO-TV (channel 3, now KIMT) begins broadcasting in Mason City, Iowa.
1970: Actress Lynda Day marries actor Christopher George (she would thereafter be known as Lynda Day George). They would remain married until the sudden death of Christopher in 1983. Lynda would work only sporadically thereafter, re-marry in 1985, and retire from acting in the late 1980s.
1977: The cast of Father Knows Best reunites for the first of 2 TV-movies.
1979: The last first-run Starsky and Hutch airs on ABC.
2007: Evangelist Jerry Falwell (The Old-Time Gospel Hour) dies due to a cardiac arrhythmia in Lynchburg, Virginia, aged 73.
2008: Composer Alexander Courage dies in Pacific Palisades, California, aged 87. He is probably best known for writing the theme music for the original Star Trek series (and some incidental music as well), but he also worked as a composer on such TV shows as The Brothers Brannagan, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Judd for the Defense, Daniel Boone, and The Waltons.
(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…..)