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unusual facts about live television


Linear video editing

Live television is still basically produced in the same manner as it was in the 1950s, although transformed by modern technical advances.


Café Continental

Broadcast live from the BBC's studios at Alexandra Palace, the programme opened with a "Maître d'hôtel" who welcomed the television audience to the "cafe" set and told them that "your table has been reserved, as always."

CCTV-1

In special programmes in occasions such as the Chinese National Day, Handover of Hong Kong, Hong Kong International Airport, Taiwanese Earthquake, 11 September 2001, Sichuan Earthquake, Asian Games and Summer Olympic Games the show was extended to live television.

CCTV-7

In special programmes in occasional such as the Chinese National Day, Handover of Hong Kong, Hong Kong International Airport, Taiwanese Earthquake, 11 September 2001, Sichuan Earthquake, Asian Games and Summer Olympic Games the show was extended to live television.

Chicagoland Mystery Players

Chicagoland Mystery Players was a live television series first shown on local station WGN-TV in Chicago starting in 1947, then picked up by the DuMont Television Network and first aired on the network September 11, 1949.

Guy Goma

At the same time, Guy Kewney, a British technology expert, was in another reception area, known as Stage Door, preparing for a live television interview on the subject of Apple Computer's court case with The Beatles' record label, Apple Corps.

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

The screenplay was adapted for a radio version on Lux Radio Theater in May 1947, with Don DeFore, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore, and Gale Storm repeating their roles; and a live television production for Lux Video Theatre in 1957, with Ernest Truex, Leon Ames, Diane Jergens, and William Campbell.

PlayCafe

PlayCafe produced over 300 hour-long episodes, which were broadcast live from Redwood City, California and hosted by Daniella Martin from August 2007 to August 7, 2008, then by Chad Mosher in Flint, Michigan from August 14, 2008 to December 18, 2008.

Salyut 6

While aboard, on 19 July, they sent their greetings to the Olympians and wished them happy starts in the live communication between the station and the Central Lenin Stadium, where the opening ceremony of the 1980 Summer Olympics was held.

Stahlmusik

One of the earliest and rarest Neubauten albums, Stahlmusik was recorded live-to-tape in a pillar of the Stadtautobahn Bridge in West Berlin on June 1, 1980, and was released on cassette in October via Blixa Bargeld's "Eisengrau" shop, where the earliest incarnations of the band would often rehearse.


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Benny 'Ben' Harris

In 2007 he moved to Los Angeles and has since appeared in movies with Chevy Chase and Michael Madsen, worked as a live television host, starred in music videos for Natasha Bedingfield and also famous American TV shows such as The Young and the Restless.

David Bloom

It was a Ford F250 4 wheel drive Flatbed truck with a SeaTel stabilized marine dish retrofitted by Miramar, Florida-based company Maritime Telecommunications Network, with live television and satellite transmission equipment so he could continuously broadcast reports as troops made their way toward Baghdad.

Gerardo Yepiz

He describes Colosio—shot on live television in 1994, during a campaign rally in Tijuana--as the Mexican equivalent to John F. Kennedy.

Hybrasil

The band made its live television debut later that year, whilst appearing on RTÉ’s Tubridy Tonight Show in September.

Jerry Scheff

He appears on Aloha from Hawaii (Elvis' 1973 live television concert), "Back In Memphis", That's The Way It Is, Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square Garden, the documentary movie from 1972 Elvis On Tour, and Moody Blue, among others.

John Andrew Gallagher

When a team of students of Trinity College, Cambridge, won University Challenge in 1974 (Christopher Vane, Frederick 'Wynn' Jolley, Simon Schaffer, and Paul Hopkins), Gallagher was part of a Trinity fellows team ( Sir James Lighthill, Dr Bradfield, Mr JA Weir) which defeated them in a contest on live television.

John Bratby

In America, the term was associated with Paddy Chayefsky and other dramatists who created gritty plays for live television during the 1950s.

Karl Jeno Schmid

Schmid became a regular host of the New Zealand weekend children's live television show, What Now.

Katy Pullinger

She has presented live television for over ten years including ITV's Glitterball, Make Your Play and ITV2's Playdate.

Kilowog

While his appearance at first frightened most humans, Kilowog briefly became a celebrity following his defeat of the villain Black Hand on live television in a battle over Anaheim Stadium.

Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2005

It was held on May 28, 2005, in Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway with a live television show of 1 hours and 15 minutes presented by Stian Barsnes Simonsen and Nadia Hasnaoui.

Oaky Doaks

He also was a special projects editor at Princeton University, and he wrote more than 15 plays, with two of his comedies playing on Broadway during the mid-1940s, followed by teleplays for The Philco Television Playhouse and other live television series of the 1950s.

Perjury

A statement made on oath by a witness outside the United Kingdom and given in evidence through a live television link by virtue of section 32 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 must be treated for the purposes of section 1 as having been made in the proceedings in which it is given in evidence.

Rich Beem

At the 2007 Nissan Open at Riviera, Beem made a hole-in-one at the 14th hole on live television on Saturday to win a new red Altima coupe, which he immediately ascended, embraced, and sat atop of in triumph.

Valeria Volodymyrivna Ivanenko

November 19, 1998 – arranging and conducting the live television broadcast of the STS-87 launch.

Venus Brown

In 2009 Venus signed a multi-year deal to be the international music producer of the High Fashion meets Rock & Roll live television special Fashion Rocks in Rio de Janeiro.