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20 unusual facts about Television


1939 Major League Baseball season

August 26 - The first Major League game to be televised occurs, when WXBS-TV broadcasts the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.

Apostol Trpeski

From 1971 until 1992 he worked at the Macedonian National Television as Cinematographer and Director of Photography.

Australian Writers' Guild

The Australian Writers' Guild receives assistance from the Literature Fund of the Australia Council, the State Arts Ministries in New South Wales and Western Australia, the Australian Film Commission, the Film Finance Corporation, Cinemedia, the South Australian Film Corporation, Pacific Film and Television, Screenwest and the NSW Film and Television office.

Communications and media in Sarajevo

Television is very popular in Sarajevo, even though for most people the number of channels is somewhat limited.

Curb Event Center

On April 10, 2006, the arena hosted the nationally televised CMT Music Awards for the first time and in September of 2011 featured special guest and keynote speaker Dr. Maya Angelou in celebration of its 10th Annual Humanities Symposium.

Far sight

Television, derived from mixed Latin and Greek roots, meaning "far sight"

Francisco Huaiquipán

On 6 January 2012, was confirmed that Huaiquipán will participate in the new reality show of Canal 13 along with the other nine famous people of the Chilean television.

Georgi Parvanov

Bulgarian Christmas is a musical event each year at the time of Christmas in which Bulgarian performers sing their most popular songs in the audience of the President and his wife, and other VIP guests, the event is TV-broadcast on the national channel BNT and funds are being raised by sms and bank accounts.

Hilary Estey McLoughlin

From 2006-2013, she served as President of Warner Bros. Television's syndication production house Telepictures Productions.

Jamie Redfern

Redfern was a founding member of the Australian show Young Talent Time and currently presents Jamie Redfern's Rascals, which can be viewed on Aurora TV.

Nakidka

According to NII Stali (Scientific Research Institute of Steel), which designed Nakidka, it reduces the chances of detection by day/night viewers and TV systems and seekers by thirty percent, infrared seekers by two to three fold, radar by six fold, and reduces the thermal-radar signature to near-background levels.

Nikola Nikić

He is often a guest on various TV and radio shows because of his stories about himself being silly in all kind of strange situations.

Peter Jihde

Jihde has also hosted his own talk show Hos Jihde on SVT and is a former floorball player.

Saved by the Light

The book was adapted for a 1995 FOX TV movie of the same name starring Eric Roberts, and debuted as one of the highest rated television movies in that network's history.

Shalini Arora

Shalini Arora (9 November 1971) is an Indian Television actress, popularly known as Bhavna for her role in the top reigning show Pavitra Rishta on Zee TV.

Taylor Range

Mount Coot-tha, on which there is a lookout, botanical gardens, a planetarium and television towers, is the highest peak of the Taylor Range at 287 m.

Television in Senegal

Television in Senegal was introduced in 1965.

Television/A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment

The English-language translation by Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson was first published in Issue 40 of October Journal in 1987 under the editorship of Joan Copjec.

In January 1977, the French journal Ornicar ? edited by Jacques-Alain Miller published two supplements: on the 1953 "Scission" of the Société française de psychanalyse from the Paris Psychoanalytic Society (the French branch of the International Psychoanalytic Association); and on Lacan’s 1963 "Excommunication" from the latter.

Yannick Djaló

In May 2010 he married singer and TV-personality Luciana Abreu, subsequently taking his wife's surname, and signing as "Yannick Abreu Djaló".


Amiriyah shelter bombing

Jeremy Bowen, a BBC correspondent, was one of the first television reporters on the scene.

Andy Cadiff

He has directed episodes of a number of notable television series including Home Improvement, Spin City, My Wife and Kids, Growing Pains, According to Jim, The War at Home, and Quintuplets.

Andy Mangels

Mangels and Martin co-wrote a series of novels serving as the official continuation of Star Trek: Enterprise following the television series' cancellation.

Ardingly

Jon Snow, the television newscaster, was born in Ardingly.

Betsy Sodaro

Sodaro has been in films such as Monsters University and The To Do List, and has made guest appearances on television shows such as Raising Hope, Comedy Bang Bang, NTSF:SD:SUV::, Stevie TV, and Kroll Show.

Big Red Letter Day

The leadoff track, "Sodajerk," was featured on the soundtrack for the short-lived television series My So-Called Life and in commercials for Nike and Pontiac.

Catherine McGoohan

She has appeared in films and television series such as The Odd Couple II, Something's Gotta Give, The Girl Next Door, Elizabethtown, General Hospital, Gilmore Girls.

Children of Fire Mountain

That year it received the Feltex Television Awards for "Best Drama", "Best Script", and Terence Cooper as "Best Actor" for his role as Sir Charles Pemberton.

Christian Quadflieg

Christian Urs Quadflieg (born April 11, 1945 in Växjö, Sweden) is a German television actor and director.

Cineme

Cineme judges included prominent figures in the television and motion-picture industries from Cartoon Network, DreamWorks SKG, Nickelodeon, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Universal Studios.

David Hepp

Hepp received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award "for excellence in television journalism" as well as awards from the Associated Press, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the New York State Broadcasters Association.

Father Knows Best

The house can also be seen in both its familiar Father Knows Best style and later renovated variations in episodes of Hazel, Bewitched, The Monkees, The Partridge Family, and in numerous other television comedies and dramas.

Fred Basset

During mid 1976 a short-lived 5 minute television cartoon of Fred Basset was shown on the BBC, made by Bill Melendez Productions, voiced by actor Lionel Jeffries that was available on VHS.

Garry Hoy

Although the name, date, and location were changed to protect his privacy, this death was featured in the American television show 1000 Ways to Die on Spike TV.

Guillermo Santa Cruz

In 2002, Santa Cruz acted (and, in many cases, was reunited) with fellow Chiquititas stars Camila Bordonaba, Felipe Colombo, Dario Lopilato, Lopilato's sister Luisana, and Georgina Mollo, and he acted alongside noted actors such as Catherine Fulop and Diego García in Rebelde Way, another major Argentine television hit.

If I Only Had a Brain

Jackson Browne sang a folk music tempo of this song in the 1995 television special The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True when he performed as the Scarecrow.

Jack Tramiel

As prices dropped and the market matured, the monochrome (green text on black screen) PET was at a disadvantage in the market when compared to machines like the Apple II and Atari 800, which offered color graphics and could be hooked to a television as an inexpensive display.

Jamie Reeves

When Reeves saw Bill Kazmaier win his third World's Strongest Man title in 1982, on BBC television, he decided that would be his aim, and took up weights.

Jerome Moross

He also composed the main theme to the 3rd–8th seasons of the television western series Wagon Train, the theme of which was based on his score for The Jayhawkers!.

Jhoon Goo Rhee

Rhee is well known in the Washington, D.C. area for a television commercial that has a jingle by Nils Lofgren and features the catch phrase, "Nobody bothers me," followed by "Nobody bothers me, either."

John Treacy

Treacy overtook Spedding with 150m to go, during which the Irish television commentary of Jimmy Magee listed the previous Irish Olympic medal winners up to that time, before culminating: "And for the 13th time, an Olympic medal goes to John Treacy from Villierstown in Waterford, the little man with the big heart."

Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman

Two other Gidget films were made, as well as a 1965 television series starring Sally Field and several television movies.

KHCV

KFFV, a television station (channel 44) licensed to serve Seattle, Washington, United States, which held the call sign KHCV from 1999 to 2009

KLKN

On January 16, 2012, KLKN, along with all Citadel stations (including WLNE-TV in Providence and KCAU-TV in Sioux City), began carrying Disney/ABC's Live Well Network, replacing the Retro Television Network on its subchannel and cable channels.

KPXO-TV

Due to limited feed abilities, KPXO is not available over-the-air or on cable in many other areas of the state; as a result, the "Big Island" of Hawaii at one point received Ion and its predecessor networks via KLEI (channel 6), even though the entire state of Hawaii is a single television market.

KUVM

KUVM-LD, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Missouri City, Texas, United States

Luke Booth

Booth, and his uncle Christopher Eves, successfully participated in the BBC television show, Dragons' Den and received investment to launch their packaging solutions for the FMCG, Retail & Leisure markets.

Mat Stevenson

He is best known for playing the long running regular role of Adam Cameron in the television soap opera Home and Away from 1989 to 1994, making a return appearance in 1999.

Megan Glaros

She was an NFL cheerleader for the Indianapolis Colts for a few months in 2002 before taking her first job in television.

Omen IV: The Awakening

Omen IV: The Awakening is a 1991 made-for-television film that serves as the fourth and final addition to the original The Omen series, directed by Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard.

Otto Piene

In 1968, along with Aldo Tambellini, he produced Black Gate Cologne, which is cited as one of the first television programs produced by experimental visual artists.

Overacting

William Shatner's performance in the original Star Trek series has been frequently parodied across numerous comedy television shows.

Pamela Kosh

She has also made many minor and less notable appearances in television series such as Northern Exposure, Gilmore Girls, Friends, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, USA High, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Frasier, Charmed, Matlock, Alias, Monk, ER and So Little Time.

Pat Crowley

Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley, who appeared as the guest leading lady in different episodes of most of the same television series.

Paul Teutul, Sr.

He has been featured in the music video for Nickelback's "Rockstar", and also in the television programs Long Way Round starring Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman and on King of The Hill in Season 10, Episode 10 titled Hank Fixes Everything.

Pavle Vuisić

Famous actor Orson Welles said in interview for former Yugoslav television RTZ that he considered Pavle Vuisić as the best actor in the world.

Robert Villar

His first television appearance was when he auditioned in ABS-CBN'S Little Big Star.

SET International

SET International is a satellite cable channel operated by Sanlih E-Television in Taiwan, launched on March 2000, but only broadcasts abroad.

Simone Bendix

In addition to the 1994 Gerry Anderson science-fiction drama Space Precinct, in which she played the regular role of Officer Jane Castle, her television appearances include The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993), Between the Lines (1993), The Tomorrow People (1994), Lie Down with Lions (1994) and The Crow Road (1996).

Sirio Maccioni

On television, he has been featured as a guest judge on Top Chef, the 48th Annual Miss Universe Pageant and as himself in Charlie Rose, Behind Closed Doors and Eat This New York.

Squad 51

Squad 51 is a 1972 Dodge D-300 truck, one of 3 different rescue squad vehicles ("squads") that were used in the filming of the television series Emergency!

Stewart Tele Enterprises

They were Pyramid and was hosted by Donny Osmond in 2002 for syndication and Chain Reaction in 2005 produced by British television producer Michael Davies' production company Embassy Row in association with and distributed by Sony Pictures Television aired on GSN and was hosted by Dylan Lane.

Televisora de Oriente

Televisora de Oriente, or TVO, is a Venezuelan television station that can be seen in the Venezuelan states of Anzoátegui (channels 5 and 13), Monagas (channel 32), Nueva Esparta (channel 8), and Sucre (channel 8).

Van Rankin

Jorge van Rankin (born 1963), Mexican radio and television personality

WBGR

WBGR-LP, a low-power television station (channel 33) licensed to Bangor/Dedham, Maine, United States

WBKM

WBKM-LP, a low-power television station (channel 46) licensed to Chana, Illinois, United States

WCPN

She interviewed people involved in stage, screen and television careers, such as actor Greg Morris of CBS-TV's Mission: Impossible series.

WFSU

WFSU-TV, a television station (channel 11 analog/32 digital) licensed to Tallahassee, Florida, United States

What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

Crick comments on various aspects of the DNA double helix discovery and gives a qualified endorsement to the 1987 television movie Life Story with Jeff Goldblum as Jim Watson and Tim Piggott-Smith as Francis Crick.

Willie Morris

One of Morris' books, Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood was made into a TV movie for Public Television by Disney and PBS Wonderworks and later re-titled The River Pirates in 1988 not far from where Morris lived.It starred Richard Farnsworth, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dixie Wade, Ryan Francis, Caryn West and Richard E. Council.