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November 8: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on November 9. Discuss or comment as you please……

1886: Comedian and actor Ed Wynn is born (as Isaiah Edwin Leopold) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1937: Bell Telephone Laboratories successfully transmits a television signal of 800 kHz bandwidth on an experimental coaxial cable laid between New York and Philadelphia.

1951: Actor and bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

1953: KOOK-TV (channel 2, now KTVQ) begins broadcasting in Billings, Montana.

1964: Actor Robert McNeill (Star Trek: Voyager) is born in Raleigh, North Carolina.

1965: The Northeast Blackout of 1965 affects Ontario, Canada and Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, and New Jersey in the United States, leaving around 25 million people over 80,000 square miles without electricity for up to twelve hours. The blackout causes major disruptions to radio and TV stations in the affected areas. The official investigation would claim that the blackout began with the tripping of a faulty relay between Queenston, Ontario and Lewiston, New York. But we TV geeks know the TRUE cause of the blackout from watching Green Acres! (DOUBLE DRICK!!!)

1976: The Museum of Broadcasting is opened in the Paley Foundation building in New York City.

(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…..) ;)
 
November 9: This Day in TV History

As this is actually the Nov. 9 thread, here's an addendum:

1980: Model/actress/television personality Vanessa Minnillo ("Entertainment Tonight," MTV's "Total Request Live") is born at Clark Air Force Base in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines.
 
Stanislav said:
1965: The Northeast Blackout of 1965 affects Ontario, Canada and Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, and New Jersey in the United States, leaving around 25 million people over 80,000 square miles without electricity for up to twelve hours. The blackout causes major disruptions to radio and TV stations in the affected areas. The official investigation would claim that the blackout began with the tripping of a faulty relay between Queenston, Ontario and Lewiston, New York. But we TV geeks know the TRUE cause of the blackout from watching Green Acres! (DOUBLE DRICK!!!)
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Green Acres eh? ;)

Even though its not true there was a story going around I can remember hearing years ago where someone did try to place the blame of the blackout of 1965 on New York's WABC Radio. Crazy story about how some bigshot at ABC ( others claim it was Dan Ingram and Cousin Brucie Morrow ) wanted their friends in California to sample WABC so with a "touch of a button" WABC went from 50,000 watts to 500,000 watts, not only blasting their way through America but even reaching New Zealand and Tokyo. So according to this story, the massive power from 500,000 WABC was too much for Con Edison or whoever was the NYC local power company at the time

Funny story, too bad it isn't true for starters I will have to assume it will take more than a "touch of a button" to go from 50,000 to 500,000 watts though I did work for a small AM station back in the early 90s where our max power was 500 watts per-FCC though our transmitter had a white button that said "full power-5000 watts". Wonder what would had happened had I pressed that button and left it on for say 5 minutes? Hmmmmmmmm
 
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Tim from Springfield said:
As this is actually the Nov. 9 thread
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Especially since on Nov. 8, newspaper columnist and What's My Line? panelist Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead . . . and some hypothesized that the blackout was an overdoing of the ritual of Broadway's lights dimming after a Great White Way drama or musical star dies. (Within ten days of Miss Kilgallen's death, her "Voice of Broadway" column in the New York Journal-American was assigned to its heretofore TV critic Jack O'Brian - while his old beat went to Atra Baer who had covered radio for the paper. The "Voice of Broadway," under O'Brian, would be carried over to the World Journal Tribune, lasting until that paper's demise in 1967.)
 
On November 8, 1960, 50 years ago today, John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th President of The United States. TV coverage of the election began on all 3 networks around 7pm and lasted well into the next morning. Huntley and Brinkley anchored for NBC, while Walter Cronkite handled the duties at CBS. Not sure who anchored ABC's election coverage. The coverage ended with the live telecasdt of JFK's victory statement at the Hyannis Armory around noon on November 9th.
 
Re: November 9: This Day in TV History

Tim from Springfield said:
As this is actually the Nov. 9 thread, here's an addendum:

1980: Model/actress/television personality Vanessa Minnillo ("Entertainment Tonight," MTV's "Total Request Live") is born at Clark Air Force Base in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines.
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Also in 1973: Singer Nick Lachey(formerly of 98 Degrees, and co-hosted an ill-fated
variety show in 2004 with then-wife Jessica Simpson) is born in Harlan, Kentucky. He just
got engaged to Minnillo.
 
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