Just a few random TV related events that happened on May 30. Discuss or comment as you please……
1937: Actress Deanna Lund is born in Oak Park, Illinois. She is best known for the role of Valerie on Irwin Allen’s Land of the Giants.
1949: WFBM-TV (later WRTV) signs on the air in Indianapolis, becoming Indiana’s first TV station.
1958: Actor Ted McGinley is born in Newport Beach, California. He has his own “category” on jumptheshark.com by virtue of his frequently joining the cast of TV shows during their declining years (including Happy Days, Married…with Children, and Dynasty).
1983: The very unusual “Peanuts” TV special What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? is broadcast on CBS. Placing the kids in Europe touring World War I and II memorials made for an uncharacteristically serious outing, but the special won a Peabody Award.
2003: Girard Westerberg achieves the first known E-skip reception of digital television when he decodes the PSIP ID of KOTA-DT (channel 2 Rapid City, South Dakota) in Lexington, Kentucky, at a distance of 1,062 miles.
(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…..)
1937: Actress Deanna Lund is born in Oak Park, Illinois. She is best known for the role of Valerie on Irwin Allen’s Land of the Giants.
1949: WFBM-TV (later WRTV) signs on the air in Indianapolis, becoming Indiana’s first TV station.
1958: Actor Ted McGinley is born in Newport Beach, California. He has his own “category” on jumptheshark.com by virtue of his frequently joining the cast of TV shows during their declining years (including Happy Days, Married…with Children, and Dynasty).
1983: The very unusual “Peanuts” TV special What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? is broadcast on CBS. Placing the kids in Europe touring World War I and II memorials made for an uncharacteristically serious outing, but the special won a Peabody Award.
2003: Girard Westerberg achieves the first known E-skip reception of digital television when he decodes the PSIP ID of KOTA-DT (channel 2 Rapid City, South Dakota) in Lexington, Kentucky, at a distance of 1,062 miles.
(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…..)