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IT WAS JULY 15th … when “Music and the Spoken Word” debuted on KSL Salt Lake City. It is still heard today on 2,000 radio & TV stations worldwide… When radio station CKLN 1420 first went on the air in Nelson, B.C…. When 24-year old singer Patti Page made her TV debut in a CBS summer replacement series for Perry Como.. When ‘One Life to Live’ began its 42-year run on ABC-TV daytime... ..and when cable news network MSNBC began operations in Secaucus, New Jersey, a joint project of Microsoft & NBC TV. ALL the milestones for July 15th INSIDE.

The New Jersey natives were married from 1939-51 and had three kids. Ten days after their divorce, he married Hollywood glamour girl Ava Gardner.

IT WAS JULY 14th … when satirist Stan Freberg (pictured) debuted a weekly sketch comedy series on CBS Radio; it ran for 15 unsponsored weeks…. When one of the shock jock’s early forays into TV, “The Howard Stern Summer Show” premiered on WWOR-TV in New York City… When TV trash-talk show host Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio… ..and when two distinguished network news anchors, CBS’s Douglas Edwards and NBC’s John Chancellor, were born. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

The veteran character actor who guest-starred on a memorable episode of the original Star Trek and portrayed headmaster Charles Parker on The Facts of Life, died after a battle with prostate cancer,

ABC's General Hospital is still breaking new ground with the recent debut of the show’s first transgender character to be played by a transgender cast member.

Focus Features and Carnival Films are pacting to bring Downton Abbey and the lives of the Crawley family and its servants to the big screen. The film will be shot later this summer.