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September 9: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

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

1956: Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. Ironically, Sullivan himself does not appear (Charles Laughton was the guest host) as he is recovering from a serious auto accident.

1960: CFCN-TV (channel 4) signs on in Calgary, Alberta. It is the first independent TV station in Canada, though not long thereafter (October 1961) it would become a charter member of CTV.

1962: WSYR-TV (channel 9) begins broadcasting in Syracuse, New York, the last of that market’s "Big Three" network affiliates to sign on.

1963: In the true spirit of “keeping up with the Joneses,” NBC expands The Huntley-Brinkley Report from 15 minutes to 30, just as the CBS Evening News had done one week prior.

1968: The final prime-time airing of The Monkees takes place on ABC. The show would survive in Saturday afternoon repeats on CBS and ABC for several more years, thence going into syndication, and currently airing on RTN. (Best quote ever about the show, from an old friend of mine: “The Monkees’ TV shows are best appreciated if you watch them in the same state in which they were made: stoned.”)

1971: Family Affair ends its CBS network run.

1972: Josie and the Pussycats debuts on CBS. So does Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (Hey, hey, hey!!).

1975: Welcome Back, Kotter premieres on ABC.

1979: KNXV-TV (channel 15) begins operations in Phoenix, Arizona. Today it is the ABC affiliate for the market, but it began as an indie, running a schedule of syndicated shows and children's programming during the day, and the ON-TV Subscription Television service in the evening and late-night hours. They were a charter Fox affiliate in 1986, and gained the ABC affiliation in 1994.

1984: KLMG-TV (channel 51, now KFXK) signs on in Longview, Texas. Its distinction is that it is the first U.S. TV station owned by an African-American woman (Clara McLaughlin).

1996: Access Hollywood debuts in syndication.

2002: Clear Channel restores the historical WOAI-TV calls to San Antonio’s channel 4 (they had switched to KMOL-TV back in 1975 after 26 years as WOAI-TV).

(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…..) ;)
 
"The Monkees" originally aired on NBC, although
it would have made a great ABC show.

There's a story that may or may not be true
about Charles Laughton and Elvis. Elvis was
in Hollywood, making "Love Me Tender," so his
segment originated from there. Laughton
introduced him by saying "Now we go to Hollywood
for Elvin Presley." The girls in the audience
screamed Elvis' right name at him, and he had to
go back on the air and correct himself.
 
Stanislav said:
1972: Josie and the Pussycats debuts on CBS.
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Actually, Josie debuted September 12, 1970. It was 9/9/1972 when its sci-fi follow-up, "Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space", debuted.
 
A nit-picky note about WSYR-TV's sign on...

Channel 9 signed on as WNYS. WSYR-TV, at that time, was ch. 3. In 1977, WNYS switched to WIXT. Then a couple years ago, it took the WSYR call letters, because Clear Channel owned both it and WSYR radio.

The original WSYR, ch. 3, dropped those calls in about 1980, when Times-Mirror bought ch. 3 and changed the calls to WSTM.

Ironically, CC sold WSYR ch. 9 to Newport...Breaking the tie to CC-owned WSYR radio.
 
Stanislav said:
1984: KLMG-TV (channel 51, now KFXK) signs on in Longview, Texas. Its distinction is that it is the first U.S. TV station owned by an African-American woman (Clara McLaughlin).
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I remember Ms. McLaughlin being featured on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and interviewed sometime after Ch. 51 launched. I don't think Robin Leach did the honors IIRR. I had heard something about Longview being the largest city in the US at the time without it's own TV station, but I'm not sure if that's true or not. Either way, and no matter how checkered the past (cheap and shaky (literally, the frame wouldn't always stay still)-looking commercial breaks, bankruptcy, multiple go-rounds of news (which usually only covered Gregg County, where Longview is)), it was the first station in the market to break the multi-net stranglehold of KLTV/7 and it's sister KTRE/9. Debuting with CBS affiliation, KLMG would be able to show Dallas Cowboys games instead of them being on 7 & 9 (where they'd long been a staple); I remember my dad would try to aim his north-of-Dallas antenna toward Tyler to pick up any Cowboys games that had been blacked-out...he may have had trouble trying to pick up KXII/12 up in Sherman for some reason. I remember later being shocked when I heard that Ch. 51 had flipped to Fox--there hadn't been a Fox affiliate in the market since that net's 1987 debut, but that move would, ironically enough, bring back most Dallas Cowboys games to the market. Ch. 51 was also the first station in the market to flip networks.
 
bpatrick said:
There's a story that may or may not be true
about Charles Laughton and Elvis. Elvis was
in Hollywood, making "Love Me Tender," so his
segment originated from there. Laughton
introduced him by saying "Now we go to Hollywood
for Elvin Presley." The girls in the audience
screamed Elvis' right name at him, and he had to
go back on the air and correct himself.
Click to expand...

Ironically, BPatrick, another famous "Elvin" was born on September 9, 1927--jazz drummer Elvin Ray Jones (died May 18, 2004). (He performed with the likes of Charles Mingus and John Coltrane). Per IMDB, Elvin Jones made an appearance on the KQED-San Francisco (NET/PBS) jazz series "Jazz Casual" on Dec. 7, 1963.
 
From the "consigned to the bin" bin:

1985: CapCities' buyout of KFSN-30 Fresno forces the station to flip to ABC (which took effect) that day.

Didn't know that this was also KNXV's birthday...31 years and counting of a relatively barren desert in Phoenix television!
 
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