Just a few random TV related events that happened on November 1. Discuss or comment as you please……
1926: Actress/game show panelist Betsy Palmer (I’ve Got a Secret) is born (as Patricia Betsy Hrunek) in East Chicago, Indiana.
1931: Television images are transmitted from radio station JOAK in Tokyo, Japan. The images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
1942: Actress Marcia Wallace (The Bob Newhart Show, The Simpsons) is born in Creston, Iowa.
1946: New York City’s channel 2 changes calls from WCBW to WCBS-TV.
1953: KLZ-TV (channel 7, now KMGH-TV) signs on in Denver, Colorado.
1953: WHEC-TV (channel 10) begins operating in Rochester, New York in a share-time arrangement with WVET-TV. WHEC would become sole occupant of the channel in 1961.
1953: KCEN-TV (channel 6) signs on in Temple, Texas.
1954: KUON-TV (channel 12) debuts in Lincoln from the University of Nebraska. It is Nebraska’s first educational TV station, and would eventually become the flagship of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET).
1955: KARD-TV (Channel 3, now KSNW) begins broadcasting in Wichita, Kansas.
1957: WINR-TV (channel 40, now WICZ-TV) signs on in Binghamton, New York.
1957: KXGN-TV (channel 5) launches in Glendive, Montana. (Glendive is the smallest of the 210 US Nielsen-designated broadcast television market areas in the United States.)
1959: Okinawa Terebi Hōsō Kabushiki-Gaisha (Okinawa Television Broadcasting Co.) launches the first TV service on the island.
1962: CFTK-TV (channel 3) begins broadcasting in Terrace, British Columbia.
1962: After a year of intermittent tests, WNYC-TV (channel 31) officially signs on in New York City. Operated as a noncommercial station by the city, WNYC is first used as an experiment to determine the viability of UHF broadcasts within an urban environment. Programming includes educational films and college-level telecourses, a nightly rundown of the Police Department's "wanted" criminals list, and eventually live broadcasts of the United Nations' General Assembly meetings. The station would be sold in 1996 and become independent WBIS and, two years later, Paxson-owned WPXN-TV.
1962: At 6:30 p.m., WZZM-TV (channel 13) signs on the air for the first time in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is not a flawless debut; just 20 minutes later, the transmitter fails and the station leaves the air. (However, the problem is minor, and WZZM returns to the air 10 minutes later.)
1972: ABC broadcasts the controversial TV-movie “That Certain Summer,” starring Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen. It is one of the first TV dramas to deal sympathetically with the subject of homosexuality.
1982: S4C, the first dedicated Welsh language TV service, is launched in the U.K. Previously, Welsh speakers had only been served by occasional programs broadcast as regional opt-outs on BBC Wales and ITV’s HTV Cymru Wales, often at obscure times.
2004: The Young and the Restless airs its 8000th episode.
(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…..)
1926: Actress/game show panelist Betsy Palmer (I’ve Got a Secret) is born (as Patricia Betsy Hrunek) in East Chicago, Indiana.
1931: Television images are transmitted from radio station JOAK in Tokyo, Japan. The images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
1942: Actress Marcia Wallace (The Bob Newhart Show, The Simpsons) is born in Creston, Iowa.
1946: New York City’s channel 2 changes calls from WCBW to WCBS-TV.
1953: KLZ-TV (channel 7, now KMGH-TV) signs on in Denver, Colorado.
1953: WHEC-TV (channel 10) begins operating in Rochester, New York in a share-time arrangement with WVET-TV. WHEC would become sole occupant of the channel in 1961.
1953: KCEN-TV (channel 6) signs on in Temple, Texas.
1954: KUON-TV (channel 12) debuts in Lincoln from the University of Nebraska. It is Nebraska’s first educational TV station, and would eventually become the flagship of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET).
1955: KARD-TV (Channel 3, now KSNW) begins broadcasting in Wichita, Kansas.
1957: WINR-TV (channel 40, now WICZ-TV) signs on in Binghamton, New York.
1957: KXGN-TV (channel 5) launches in Glendive, Montana. (Glendive is the smallest of the 210 US Nielsen-designated broadcast television market areas in the United States.)
1959: Okinawa Terebi Hōsō Kabushiki-Gaisha (Okinawa Television Broadcasting Co.) launches the first TV service on the island.
1962: CFTK-TV (channel 3) begins broadcasting in Terrace, British Columbia.
1962: After a year of intermittent tests, WNYC-TV (channel 31) officially signs on in New York City. Operated as a noncommercial station by the city, WNYC is first used as an experiment to determine the viability of UHF broadcasts within an urban environment. Programming includes educational films and college-level telecourses, a nightly rundown of the Police Department's "wanted" criminals list, and eventually live broadcasts of the United Nations' General Assembly meetings. The station would be sold in 1996 and become independent WBIS and, two years later, Paxson-owned WPXN-TV.
1962: At 6:30 p.m., WZZM-TV (channel 13) signs on the air for the first time in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is not a flawless debut; just 20 minutes later, the transmitter fails and the station leaves the air. (However, the problem is minor, and WZZM returns to the air 10 minutes later.)
1972: ABC broadcasts the controversial TV-movie “That Certain Summer,” starring Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen. It is one of the first TV dramas to deal sympathetically with the subject of homosexuality.
1982: S4C, the first dedicated Welsh language TV service, is launched in the U.K. Previously, Welsh speakers had only been served by occasional programs broadcast as regional opt-outs on BBC Wales and ITV’s HTV Cymru Wales, often at obscure times.
2004: The Young and the Restless airs its 8000th episode.
(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…..)