Just a few random TV related events that happened on September 2. Discuss or comment as you please……
1934: Actor, comedian and voice artist Chuck McCann is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1951: Actor Mark Harmon (St. Elsewhere, Chicago Hope, NCIS) is born (as Thomas Mark Harmon) in Burbank, California.
1954: WTVD (channel 11) begins operations in Durham, North Carolina. Their first studios were located in a former tuberculosis sanatorium.
1957: WHYY-TV begins broadcasting on channel 35 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Saddled with a UHF allocation in the days when UHF-capable sets were rare, the educational station’s fortunes would change when Wilmington, Delaware’s channel 12 allocation became vacant the next year. Five years later, in 1963, the FCC finally approved WHYY’s request for the channel.
1958: China enters the TV era as Beijing Television (now CCTV) signs on officially for the first time. (There had been a previous experimental broadcast 4 months prior.)
1959: KAYS-TV (channel 7, now KBSH-TV) signs on for the first time in Hays, Kansas.
1963: The CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1965: My Three Sons is broadcast for the last time on ABC. The show would start its new season two weeks later on CBS.
1967: KUSI-TV (channel 16) signs on in Joplin, Missouri. They later switched calls to KTVJ, then again to the present KSNF.
1974: Here's Lucy ends its CBS network run.
1979: KTVW-TV (channel 33) hits the air in Phoenix as Arizona’s first full-time Spanish language TV station.
2001: Cartoon Network’s late-night “Adult Swim” lineup premieres.
2005: Gilligan is no more: Actor Bob Denver (Gilligan’s Island, The Good Guys, Dusty’s Trail, Far Out Space Nuts) dies in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, aged 70.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits…..don’t expect it every single day. 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…..)
1934: Actor, comedian and voice artist Chuck McCann is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1951: Actor Mark Harmon (St. Elsewhere, Chicago Hope, NCIS) is born (as Thomas Mark Harmon) in Burbank, California.
1954: WTVD (channel 11) begins operations in Durham, North Carolina. Their first studios were located in a former tuberculosis sanatorium.
1957: WHYY-TV begins broadcasting on channel 35 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Saddled with a UHF allocation in the days when UHF-capable sets were rare, the educational station’s fortunes would change when Wilmington, Delaware’s channel 12 allocation became vacant the next year. Five years later, in 1963, the FCC finally approved WHYY’s request for the channel.
1958: China enters the TV era as Beijing Television (now CCTV) signs on officially for the first time. (There had been a previous experimental broadcast 4 months prior.)
1959: KAYS-TV (channel 7, now KBSH-TV) signs on for the first time in Hays, Kansas.
1963: The CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1965: My Three Sons is broadcast for the last time on ABC. The show would start its new season two weeks later on CBS.
1967: KUSI-TV (channel 16) signs on in Joplin, Missouri. They later switched calls to KTVJ, then again to the present KSNF.
1974: Here's Lucy ends its CBS network run.
1979: KTVW-TV (channel 33) hits the air in Phoenix as Arizona’s first full-time Spanish language TV station.
2001: Cartoon Network’s late-night “Adult Swim” lineup premieres.
2005: Gilligan is no more: Actor Bob Denver (Gilligan’s Island, The Good Guys, Dusty’s Trail, Far Out Space Nuts) dies in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, aged 70.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits…..don’t expect it every single day. 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…..)
