Just a few random TV related events that happened on May 6. Discuss or comment as you please……
1904: Actor Raymond Bailey (The Beverly Hillbillies) is born in San Francisco.
1948: L.A.’s W6XAO becomes a commercial station, taking the call letters KTSL-TV (later KNXT, KCBS-TV).
1955: TV personality Tom Bergeron (Hollywood Squares, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Dancing with the Stars) is born in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
1956: WRGP-TV (channel 3, now WRCB-TV) signs on in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1974: The $10,000 Pyramid with Dick Clark moves to ABC after having been canceled by CBS. Ironically, the first 30 ABC episodes are actually taped at CBS's Ed Sullivan Theater while a replica set is built at ABC's smaller Studio TV-15 (Elysee Theater). The new set had to be configured for the smaller space, plus CBS union employees objected to seeing their creations moved to an ABC studio.
1957: The final half-hour I Love Lucy airs on CBS. The retooled show would return in the fall as the occasional hour-long Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
1985: The sale of Metromedia’s TV stations to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is announced. The transactions would become official in March of the following year. These stations were the nucleus of what would eventually become the Fox Broadcasting Company.
1990: The last original episode of 227 airs on NBC.
2004: 52.5 million viewers watch the series finale of Friends on NBC. It is the 4th most watched series finale in TV history (behind M*A*S*H, Cheers, and Seinfeld).
(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…..)
1904: Actor Raymond Bailey (The Beverly Hillbillies) is born in San Francisco.
1948: L.A.’s W6XAO becomes a commercial station, taking the call letters KTSL-TV (later KNXT, KCBS-TV).
1955: TV personality Tom Bergeron (Hollywood Squares, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Dancing with the Stars) is born in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
1956: WRGP-TV (channel 3, now WRCB-TV) signs on in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1974: The $10,000 Pyramid with Dick Clark moves to ABC after having been canceled by CBS. Ironically, the first 30 ABC episodes are actually taped at CBS's Ed Sullivan Theater while a replica set is built at ABC's smaller Studio TV-15 (Elysee Theater). The new set had to be configured for the smaller space, plus CBS union employees objected to seeing their creations moved to an ABC studio.
1957: The final half-hour I Love Lucy airs on CBS. The retooled show would return in the fall as the occasional hour-long Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
1985: The sale of Metromedia’s TV stations to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is announced. The transactions would become official in March of the following year. These stations were the nucleus of what would eventually become the Fox Broadcasting Company.
1990: The last original episode of 227 airs on NBC.
2004: 52.5 million viewers watch the series finale of Friends on NBC. It is the 4th most watched series finale in TV history (behind M*A*S*H, Cheers, and Seinfeld).
(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…..)
