KPTV’s First Test Pattern

 
Herbert Mayer

Portland’s local Fox-affiliated television station, KPTV channel 12 signed on the
air Saturday September 20, 1952 on channel 27, as Oregon’s first television
station, as well as the world’s first commercial TV station on the UHF band. The
station was originally owned by Empire Coil and since it was the only TV station
at the time, it carried all four networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and the now-defunct
DuMont Television Network. KPTV founder Herbert Mayer (above) delivered
an inaugural address from Portland’s Benson Hotel.

Italian actress Sophia Loren (born Sofia Villani Scicolone) won the Academy
Award for Best Actress in 1962 for her role in Two Women, along with 21
awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-
English-speaking performance. Loren has also won 50 international
award’s, including two Oscars, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy
Award, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award. Her list of other films
include: Houseboat (1958), and El Cid (1961).

Sophia Loren from Two Women

“Sugar, Sugar",written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, was recorded by fictional
characters The Archies, spent four-weeks at number one. It was originally
released on the album Everything’s Archie, the result of a group of studio
musicians managed by Don Kirshner with lead vocals by Ron Dante
accompanied by Toni Wine and Andy Kim. The use of multitracking
created the voices of the Archies.

Don Krishner

Toni Wine

Andy Kim

 

            Brook Benton (September 19, 1931 – April 9, 1988)

"Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)" made it to the top five on the
pop charts, and to number one on the Hot R&B sides chart, for
ten weeks, becoming one of the most successful R&B singles
of the 1960s.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also known simply by the name of the show’s
star,Mary Tyler Moore) is a television sitcom that aired on the CBS network
from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. The program was a television
breakthrough, with the first never-married, independent career woman as
the central character Mary Richards). It has also been cited as "one of the
most acclaimed television programs ever produced" in U.S. history. Critics 
gave it high praises ,receiving Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy
Series three years in a row (1975–77), and continued to be honored
long after the final episode aired.   
 

Mary Tyler Moore