Arthur Godfrey birthday, radio-TV pioneer personality

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Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead. No television personality of the 1950s enjoyed more clout or fame than Godfrey until a famous on-the-air incident undermined his folksy image and triggered a gradual decline; the then-ubiquitous Godfrey helmed two CBS-TV weekly series and a daily 90-minute television mid-morning show through most of the decade but by the early 1960s found himself reduced to hosting an occasional TV special.

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August 28, 1922, WEAF in New York City aired the first commercial...

Within four years of KDKA's first commercial radio broadcast, 600 radio stations were created across the United States. These radio stations relied on advertising revenue to fund their need for improved equipment and on-air entertainment. On Aug. 28, 1922, WEAF in New York City aired the first commercial radio advertisement. The ad was for a real estate developer, The Queensboro Corporation, who encouraged listeners to purchase shares in a housing development in Jackson Heights, New York. From 1922 to 1946, WEAF was the callsign of the radio station that became WNBC and the flagship station of the NBC Red network. This station is now known as WFAN (AM) in New York.

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A series of Web pages devoted to the DuMont Television Network, America's fourth television network which operated from 1946 to 1956. After searching for such a page for some time, the author decided to fill the void himself by creating a site devoted to DuMont. This was the first, and is still the largest, DuMont resource on the Internet.

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Lee De Forest Birthday August 26, 1873

Lee De Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use of electronics. He is also credited with one of the principal inventions which brought sound to motion pictures.



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WOW! Look at RCA's compatible color TV

August 25, 1949, RCA announced the development of a compatible color TV system, which became the industry standard. Yes, it was a very big deal back then. I'm assuming you didn't live through that era and can't appreciate how important it was for the transition from black and white to color TV be "compatible". Had the rival CBS system won, instead of the RCA system, everyone in the country would have had to replace their TV sets, which numbered in the millions, and that was not an option. At least today's digital transition allows for convertor boxes to bring old sets up to speed, once properly connected.

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In 1911, announcer/host Durward Kirby was born in Covington Kentucky. After war service starting in 1946 he co-hosted Club Matinee with Garry Moore on NBC Blue, then moved to TV in '49 and worked on Garry Moore & Perry Como's TV Shows throughout the '50's. In the '60's he co-hosted Candid Camera with Allen Funt. He died of congestive heart failure Mar 15, 2000 at age 88.

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In 1917, TV announcer/host Dennis James was born in Jersey City New Jersey. He is credited as the host of TV's first game show, the DuMont Network's Cash and Carry in 1946. James was the first person to ever host a telethon and even the first to do a TV commercial. He is best remembered as emcee of Chance of a Lifetime, High Finance, The Name’s the Same, and the nightime version of The New Price is Right. He died of lung cancer June 3, 1997 at age 79.
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William Henry Eccles birthday 23 August 1875 British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.

He was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England. Following graduation from the Royal College of Science, London, in 1898, he became an assistant to Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian radio entrepreneur. In 1901 he received his doctorate from the Royal College of Science. Eccles was an advocate of Oliver Heaviside's theory that a conducting layer of the upper atmosphere could reflect radio waves around the curvature of the Earth, thus enabling their transmission over long distances. Originally known as the Kennelly–Heaviside layer, this region of the Earth's atmosphere became known as the Ionosphere. In 1912 Eccles suggested that solar radiation was responsible for the observed differences in radio wave propagation during the day and night.[2] He carried out experiments into atmospheric disturbances of radio waves and used wave detectors and amplifiers in his work. Eccles invented the term Diode to describe an evacuated glass tube containing two electrodes; an anode and a cathode. He died 29 April 1966.

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