Just a few random TV related events that happened on October 1. Discuss or comment as you please……
1927: Actor Tom Bosley (Happy Days) is born in Chicago.
1928: Actor George Peppard (Banacek, The A-Team) is born in Detroit.
1945: The wartime ban on the manufacture of television and radio equipment for civilian use comes to an end.
1953: Springfield, Missouri’s second TV station, KYTV (channel 3) begins broadcasting.
1953: WROL-TV (channel 6, now WATE-TV) signs on the air in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1953: The same day, WSKT-TV (channel 26) also hits the Knoxville airwaves, becoming Tennessee’s first UHF station. They would go through several call changes (WTVK, WKXT-TV, now WVLT-TV) and, in 1988, would flee the UHF band to channel 8 (a “drop-in” allocation for the market that had been approved after much lobbying).
1954: KSLA-TV (channel 12) goes on the air in Shreveport, Louisiana.
1956: Ernie Kovacs becomes part-time host of The Tonight Show, taking over Mondays and Tuesdays while Steve Allen continues to host Wednesdays through Fridays.
1958: NBC’s long-running anthology Kraft Television Theatre airs its last network broadcast.
1961: The CTV network is launched in Canada.
1962: A legend begins: Johnny Carson takes over as host of The Tonight Show. [Better not be any arguing about whether he's a legend....]
;D
1962: And another legend begins a new venture: The Lucy Show premieres on CBS. [Ditto...]
1962: WEDH (channel 24) brings educational TV to Connecticut. The Hartford station would become the flagship of the 4-station CPTV (Connecticut Public Television) network.
1964: WWAY (channel 3) signs on in Wilmington, North Carolina, the 2nd station in the market (WECT, channel 6, had debuted a decade earlier).
1967: Color television, using the SECAM system, is introduced in France.
1967: KMEG launches on channel 14 as Sioux City, Iowa’s CBS affiliate. Years later, KMEG was one of only two CBS outlets that did not carry The Late Show with David Letterman from the start (the other being Fargo’s KXJB-TV). It is because of this distinction that Letterman for a time jokingly located the fictional “Home Office” of the show in Sioux City.
1982: Remington Steele premieres on NBC.
1984: Cable channel AMC (American Movie Classics) signs on for the first time.
1987: Iceland introduces television on Thursdays for the first time. The previous long-running ban on Thursday TV was intended to allow families one night a week to engage in quieter, more constructive activities than sitting in front of the tube.
1992: Cartoon Network is launched on cable. The first cartoon aired is the Bugs Bunny short “Rhapsody Rabbit.”
2001: Reba premieres on The WB.
2004: The Powerpuff Girls debuts on Cartoon Network.
(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…..)
1927: Actor Tom Bosley (Happy Days) is born in Chicago.
1928: Actor George Peppard (Banacek, The A-Team) is born in Detroit.
1945: The wartime ban on the manufacture of television and radio equipment for civilian use comes to an end.
1953: Springfield, Missouri’s second TV station, KYTV (channel 3) begins broadcasting.
1953: WROL-TV (channel 6, now WATE-TV) signs on the air in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1953: The same day, WSKT-TV (channel 26) also hits the Knoxville airwaves, becoming Tennessee’s first UHF station. They would go through several call changes (WTVK, WKXT-TV, now WVLT-TV) and, in 1988, would flee the UHF band to channel 8 (a “drop-in” allocation for the market that had been approved after much lobbying).
1954: KSLA-TV (channel 12) goes on the air in Shreveport, Louisiana.
1956: Ernie Kovacs becomes part-time host of The Tonight Show, taking over Mondays and Tuesdays while Steve Allen continues to host Wednesdays through Fridays.
1958: NBC’s long-running anthology Kraft Television Theatre airs its last network broadcast.
1961: The CTV network is launched in Canada.
1962: A legend begins: Johnny Carson takes over as host of The Tonight Show. [Better not be any arguing about whether he's a legend....]
;D
1962: And another legend begins a new venture: The Lucy Show premieres on CBS. [Ditto...]
1962: WEDH (channel 24) brings educational TV to Connecticut. The Hartford station would become the flagship of the 4-station CPTV (Connecticut Public Television) network.
1964: WWAY (channel 3) signs on in Wilmington, North Carolina, the 2nd station in the market (WECT, channel 6, had debuted a decade earlier).
1967: Color television, using the SECAM system, is introduced in France.
1967: KMEG launches on channel 14 as Sioux City, Iowa’s CBS affiliate. Years later, KMEG was one of only two CBS outlets that did not carry The Late Show with David Letterman from the start (the other being Fargo’s KXJB-TV). It is because of this distinction that Letterman for a time jokingly located the fictional “Home Office” of the show in Sioux City.
1982: Remington Steele premieres on NBC.
1984: Cable channel AMC (American Movie Classics) signs on for the first time.
1987: Iceland introduces television on Thursdays for the first time. The previous long-running ban on Thursday TV was intended to allow families one night a week to engage in quieter, more constructive activities than sitting in front of the tube.
1992: Cartoon Network is launched on cable. The first cartoon aired is the Bugs Bunny short “Rhapsody Rabbit.”
2001: Reba premieres on The WB.
2004: The Powerpuff Girls debuts on Cartoon Network.
(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…..)
