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This day in TELEVISION history
October 11
1971 - Hugh Downs left the "Today" show and "Concentration." He later became the host of ABC's "20/20".
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" was broadcast for the first time. George Carlin was the guest host.
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Here is a couple more
1952: The first televised hockey game takes place in Canada.
1960: The Bugs Bunny Show debuts on ABC in prime-time.
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| October 11, 2008, 13:35 |
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1937 - The FCC adopted new television allocations including seven channels between 44 and 108 MHz and 12 channels between 165 and 194 MHz.
1957 - Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special.
1963 - The Beatles appeared on the BBC's "Sunday Night at the Palladium." It was their first appearance on a major TV show.
1971 - The first World Series night game was telecast on NBC.
1984 - Jesse Jackson appeared on "Saturday Night Live."
1988 - The 100th episode of "The Cosby Show" aired on NBC.
2000 - WRAL-TV became the first TV station in the world to produce and air an all-HD newscast, including graphics, live shots, and news stories.
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| October 13, 2008, 09:46 |
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Another great post Chazzy!
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| October 13, 2008, 12:32 |
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1928 - The first televised wedding took place in Des Plains, IL. James Fowlkes and Cora Dennison were married in a radio studio.
1943 - The Radio Corporation of America finalized the sale of the NBC Blue radio network. Edward J. Noble paid $8 million for the network that was renamed American Broadcasting Company.
1968 - The first live telecast to come from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7. There were six broadcasts during the 11-day mission.
1971 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on "The Dick Cavett Show" on ABC to promote Lennon's new LP and film ("Imagine"  , Yoko's book, two films and a fine arts show.
2001 - Toys "R" Us introduced the new version of Geoffrey the giraffe in a 60-second commercial before WABC-TV aired Disney's "The Emperor's New Groove."
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1951 - The first episode of "I Love Lucy" aired on CBS.
1955 - "Grand Ole Opry" premiered on ABC-TV.
1960 - The 100th episode of "Perry Mason" aired on CBS.
1973 - "Tomorrow" debuted on NBC-TV.
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1976 - The 100th episode of "The Bob Newhart Show" aired.
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| October 16, 2008, 07:48 |
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1943 - The first broadcast of "Perry Mason" was presented on CBS Radio. The show went to TV in 1957.
1954 - The 100th episode of "I Love Lucy" aired.
1958 - The first computer-arranged marriage took place on Art Linkletter's show.
1988 - The first episode of "Roseanne" aired on ABC.
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| October 18, 2008, 09:09 |
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I haven't figured out yet, what that 1958 computer-arranged marraige thing is about????
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| October 18, 2008, 09:09 |
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Thanks KittyKat!!!
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| October 19, 2008, 11:10 |
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1937 - "Big Town" made its debut on CBS.
1953 - Singer Julius LaRosa was fired on publicly on "Arthur Godfrey Time" by Godfrey.
1967 - The 100th episode of "Batman" aired on ABC.
1974 - The news program "Weekend" debuted on NBC.
1990 - The 100th episode of "Perfect Strangers" aired on ABC.
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| October 19, 2008, 11:11 |
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1957 - Walter Cronkite began hosting "The 20th Century." The show aired until January 4, 1970.
1985 - The movie "I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later" aired.
1991 - The movie "I Still Dream of Jeannie" aired.
1993 - Attorney General Janet Reno warned the TV industry to limit the violence in their programs.
2004 - ABC announced that they had dropped the option to carry the annual Miss America pageant. The September 18, 2004, pageant drew a record low 9.8 million viewers.
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| October 20, 2008, 09:33 |
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1985 - The movie "I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later" aired.
1991 - The movie "I Still Dream of Jeannie" aired.
Okay, let's call this the "everyone cross you arms, blink while bobbing their head and make something go away" day
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| October 20, 2008, 09:34 |
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1962 - Cliff Richard appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show."
1966 - The Who appeared on Britain's "Ready Steady Go!"
1992 - Elton John filed a $35 Million lawsuit accusing a reporter from the TV show "Hard Copy" of falsely stating that he had moved to Atlanta to be near an AIDS treatment center.
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| October 21, 2008, 09:24 |
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1954 - Walt Disney appeared on the cover of "TV Guide." He was pictured on a TV screen surrounded by his most famous cartoon characters.
1956 - NBC broadcasted the first videotape recording. The tape of Jonathan Winters was seen coast to coast in the U.S.
1984 - "NBC Nightly News" aired footage of the severe drought in Ethiopia.
2002 - A Michigan appeals court reversed the 1999 decision against the "Jenny Jones Show." The court ruled that the program had no legal duty to protect a guest who was murdered after revealing a gay crush. Scott Amedure was shot to death by Jonathan Schmitz in 1995, three days after Amedure revealed an attraction to Schmitz during a taping of the show in Chicago. The segment was never aired.
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