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November 19: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on November 19. Discuss or comment as you please……

1919: Actor Alan Young (Mister Ed) is born (as Angus Young) in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England.

1933: TV host Larry King (Larry King Live) is born (as Lawrence Harvey Zeiger) in Brooklyn, New York.

1936: Talk show host Dick Cavett is born in Gibbon, Nebraska.

1938: TV mogul Ted Turner is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1949: Football player and sportscaster Ahmad Rashād is born (as Robert Earl Moore) in Portland, Oregon.

1953: Actor Robert Beltran (Star Trek: Voyager) is born in Bakersfield, California.

1955: KBMB-TV (channel 12, now KXMB-TV) signs on in Bismarck, North Dakota.

1956: Journalist Ann Curry (Today, Dateline NBC) is born in Guam.

1958: Journalist and sports commentator Michael Wilbon (Pardon the Interruption) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1961: Lucille Ball marries Gary Morton.

1961: WXGA-TV signs on to channel 8 in Waycross, Georgia. It is the 3rd educational station in the state (following Atlanta's WETV -- now WPBA-TV -- and Athens' WGTV).

1966: The first live network satellite telecast from the U.S. mainland to Hawaii takes place as ABC feeds the Notre Dame-Michigan football game to KHVH-TV (now KITV) via the Lani Bird satellite.

1969: The Benny Hill Show premieres on Thames Television in the U.K.

1969: WENY-TV (channel 36) begins operating in Elmira, New York.

2007: TV’s “Mr. Whipple,” actor Dick Wilson, dies in Woodland Hills, California, aged 91.

(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…..) ;)
 
Stanislav said:
1966: The first live network satellite telecast from the U.S. mainland to Hawaii takes place as ABC feeds the Notre Dame-Michigan football game to KHVH-TV (now KITV) via the Lani Bird satellite.
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Not meaning to nitpick by any imagination stretch, but I do believe that the Notre Dame football game that took place on this '66 date was against Michigan State, not Michigan. All my old media guides are in storage, but I do believe that the Wolverines were not on the Irish schedule that year.

If memory serves me right, this game in 1966 was the so-called "Game of the Century" that ended in an unfortunate 10-10 tie that left people angry and grumbling to this day. :mad:
 
1962: Actress Jodie Foster (The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Paper Moon, The ABC Afterschool Special) ;D is born in Los Angeles, California.
 
RicoGregg said:
Stanislav said:
1966: The first live network satellite telecast from the U.S. mainland to Hawaii takes place as ABC feeds the Notre Dame-Michigan football game to KHVH-TV (now KITV) via the Lani Bird satellite.
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Not meaning to nitpick by any imagination stretch, but I do believe that the Notre Dame football game that took place on this '66 date was against Michigan State, not Michigan. All my old media guides are in storage, but I do believe that the Wolverines were not on the Irish schedule that year.

If memory serves me right, this game in 1966 was the so-called "Game of the Century" that ended in an unfortunate 10-10 tie that left people angry and grumbling to this day. :mad:
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Meanwhile, Michigan would have an important football game on Nov. 19, 1966 all right--in Columbus against Woody Hayes and the Ohio State Buckeyes (the Wolverines won the 1966 game, 17-3).
 
Stanislav said:
Just a few random TV related events that happened on November 19. Discuss or comment as you please……

1919: Actor Alan Young (Mister Ed) is born (as Angus Young) in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England.
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I guess I have to say it - Happy 90th Birthday to Alan Young.

He's still very much with us. He provided the voice of Scrooge McDuck as recently as last year.
 
Wasn't that game also on local broadcast TV (weren't the stations WTTV-4 Indianapolis and WDIV-4 Detroit??) in the two cities whose local teams were playing??
 
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