Just a few random TV related events that happened on September 7. Discuss or comment as you please……
1927: Philo Farnsworth's Image Dissector camera tube transmits its first image (a simple straight line) at his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco.
1950: Truth or Consequences debuts on CBS. The long-running radio game show had, though, had one previous TV test broadcast in 1941.
1950: Actress and voice artist Julie Kavner (Rhoda, The Simpsons) is born in Los Angeles.
1957: NBC introduces an animated version of its famous "living color" peacock logo.
1957: WWL-TV (channel 4) debuts as New Orleans’ third TV station.
1963: WNBE-TV (channel 12, later WCTI-TV) begins broadcasting in New Bern, North Carolina.
1964: During a break in an NBC telecast of the movie “David and Bathsheba,” the infamous and controversial “Daisy Ad” airs for its first and only time. The LBJ campaign spot, juxtaposing scenes of a young girl picking a daisy with footage of a nuclear explosion, was immediately criticized by the Goldwater camp (as well as many American viewers) as inappropriate and fearmongering.
1966: The Dick Van Dyke Show ends its original CBS network run.
1967: The Flying Nun premieres on ABC.
1979: ESPN signs on as the first 24-hout sports network, with a broadcast of SportsCenter, hosted by Lee Leonard and George Grande on September 7, 1979. The first actual sporting event broadcast was a professional slow pitch softball game.
1985: What's Happening Now!!, a sequel to the 1970s sitcom What's Happening!!, premieres in syndication.
1985: WTAT-TV (channel 24) begins operations in Charleston, South Carolina.
1987: Sylvester McCoy becomes the seventh actor to play the Doctor in BBC One's long-running Doctor Who.
(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…..)
1927: Philo Farnsworth's Image Dissector camera tube transmits its first image (a simple straight line) at his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco.
1950: Truth or Consequences debuts on CBS. The long-running radio game show had, though, had one previous TV test broadcast in 1941.
1950: Actress and voice artist Julie Kavner (Rhoda, The Simpsons) is born in Los Angeles.
1957: NBC introduces an animated version of its famous "living color" peacock logo.
1957: WWL-TV (channel 4) debuts as New Orleans’ third TV station.
1963: WNBE-TV (channel 12, later WCTI-TV) begins broadcasting in New Bern, North Carolina.
1964: During a break in an NBC telecast of the movie “David and Bathsheba,” the infamous and controversial “Daisy Ad” airs for its first and only time. The LBJ campaign spot, juxtaposing scenes of a young girl picking a daisy with footage of a nuclear explosion, was immediately criticized by the Goldwater camp (as well as many American viewers) as inappropriate and fearmongering.
1966: The Dick Van Dyke Show ends its original CBS network run.
1967: The Flying Nun premieres on ABC.
1979: ESPN signs on as the first 24-hout sports network, with a broadcast of SportsCenter, hosted by Lee Leonard and George Grande on September 7, 1979. The first actual sporting event broadcast was a professional slow pitch softball game.
1985: What's Happening Now!!, a sequel to the 1970s sitcom What's Happening!!, premieres in syndication.
1985: WTAT-TV (channel 24) begins operations in Charleston, South Carolina.
1987: Sylvester McCoy becomes the seventh actor to play the Doctor in BBC One's long-running Doctor Who.
(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…..)