It's a fairly big day. Frank Sinatra was born
this date in 1915 (he had two failed series but
numerous successful specials). Turner Classic
Movies is marking the day with a Sinatra marathon,
including two he probably wished he'd forgotten:
"The Kissing Bandit" (1949) and "Double Dynamite"
(1951, with Groucho Marx and a brief appearance
by Marilyn Monroe). Yet they're not showing his
Oscar-winning performance in "From Here To Eternity"
(1953) or my favorite Sinatra movie, "Suddenly" (1954).
Bob Barker turns 85 today. One of the tabloids says
he's undergone cancer surgery, but I've neither heard
nor seen anything in more reliable sources. I have seen
him on PSAs reminding people of the digital switchover
February 17.
In 1994 WAGA Atlanta switched from CBS to Fox, and
you folks in Atlanta paid a price for it: you got CBS46,
which, I gather, is not a textbook case in how to run
a station. The following day WTVT Tampa made the
switch from CBS to Fox, but CBS didn't get hurt quite
as badly: WTSP/10 went from ABC to CBS, and despite
its reception problems due to its transmitter being located
north of the Bay Area, it seems to have done better with
CBS than it did with ABC.
this date in 1915 (he had two failed series but
numerous successful specials). Turner Classic
Movies is marking the day with a Sinatra marathon,
including two he probably wished he'd forgotten:
"The Kissing Bandit" (1949) and "Double Dynamite"
(1951, with Groucho Marx and a brief appearance
by Marilyn Monroe). Yet they're not showing his
Oscar-winning performance in "From Here To Eternity"
(1953) or my favorite Sinatra movie, "Suddenly" (1954).
Bob Barker turns 85 today. One of the tabloids says
he's undergone cancer surgery, but I've neither heard
nor seen anything in more reliable sources. I have seen
him on PSAs reminding people of the digital switchover
February 17.
In 1994 WAGA Atlanta switched from CBS to Fox, and
you folks in Atlanta paid a price for it: you got CBS46,
which, I gather, is not a textbook case in how to run
a station. The following day WTVT Tampa made the
switch from CBS to Fox, but CBS didn't get hurt quite
as badly: WTSP/10 went from ABC to CBS, and despite
its reception problems due to its transmitter being located
north of the Bay Area, it seems to have done better with
CBS than it did with ABC.
