Friday in Broadcast History .. December 13th
Happy Birthday to Taylor Swift, Jamie Foxx, Steve Buscemi, Dick Van Dyke, Christopher Plummer, Ted Nugent and Wendie Malick. Arlo Guthrie (picture) released the future hit “Alice’s Restaurant.”
The clear channel sound of Denver radio station KOA AM 850 was heard for the first time;
‘Allen’s Alley’ (pictured) debuted on the Fred Allen radio show;
the TV rights to the first four ‘Suoer Bowls’ went to NBC & CBS for $9.5 million;
Infinity Broadcasting was fined $600,000 for the potty mouth of Howard Stern on the radio;
and NBC-TV’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ instituted a time delay system because of foul-mouthed guest host Richard Pryor.
Dec. 13th claimed two leading men of TV’s ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy,’ first Tim Moore (Kingfish Stevens) and 11 years later to the day, Spencer Williams Jr. (Andy Brown) passed away.
ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.
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Thursday in Broadcast History .. December 12th
Canada’s Genie awards, celebrating the best in the country’s cinema, were held in Montreal for the first time. A new Beatles single, “Free As a Bird,” was released in North America, a week after it hit stores in the UK. Denver Pyle (photo) got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, plus so much more, including Birthday Milestones
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