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Mystery KPHO photo

I'm going to guess early 60's based solely on the young woman's hair style and dress length.

She looks a lot like Goldie Hawn.
 
Are we sure that's not Pat McMahon in one of his get-ups? Maybe slipped over from a filming of Wallace and Ladmo.

From KPHO history on their website KPHO.com:
"1960 -- Pat McMahon is hired as a weatherman --soon joins Wallace Show. (July) Transmitter site moves from top of Westward Ho to South Mountain Park."
 
justthenumbers said:
Saw this posted on Facebook...any idea who this is, or what year/decade it is from?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/994248_10151567762884352_1039917229_n.jpg
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Paging Sandy Gibbons. Don't know her name, but I believe believe Sandy was news anchor at the time. This would have to be July 1966 or after, given the presence of the magnificent TK-41 camera.

BTW, KPHO claims to have beat KOOL /10 to do the first color studio broadcast in Phoenix...of a 4PM Wallace and Ladmo show. Tom Chauncy, KOOL's owner, arranged to borrow a similar RCA camera, which they fired up the same day for the 5PM KOOL news.

The first 'live' local color broadcast was apparently done at KTVK. According to the late Earl MeHaffey, 3's engineer who I was acquainted with as a kid, they used an 'opaque adapter' attached to the station's color film chain to experimentally televise a very brightly lit person for a Sunday night news recap show, somewhere around 1963. This was not a studio broadcast, however.

(The KOOL color story, which involved their race to beat channel 12 with local color, comes from an anecdote at the www.smecc.org website. It's clear, though, KPHO beat them both.)

Now back to 'who is the weather girl?'
 
Rita?

Don't think so.

I remember channel 5 getting the color camera, but I have no idea who the weather presenter is. Yes, I thought she looked like Goldie Hawn as well. I remember who Rita Davenport was, but not what she looked like.
 
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