KATN first signed on the air in April 1961.
From left: Ralph F. Frazer (KATN 1010 AM owner/manager),
Melburn Stone (“Doc”), and Ken Curtis (Festus) from the
CBS-TV series Gunsmoke paid a visit to the Boise, Idaho
country music station in 1965.
Original Release: November 7, 1948 – September 29, 1958
Red Buttons (born Aaron Chwatt
(February 5, 1919 – July 13, 2006)
1956 – Red Buttons made his debut
as a television actor in "Studio One"
on CBS television.
Original Release on ABC: September 23, 1969 – July 29, 1976
1969 – The TV movie "Marcus Welby", starring Robert Young,
(above) was seen on ABC-TV. It was later turned into a series.
Original Release on CBS: September 14, 1971 – March 3, 1976
1971 – "Cannon", starring William Conrad, premiered on
CBS-TV as a movie. It became a series later in the year.
William Conrad
(September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994)
PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland radio has lost a legendary voice. Steve
Pringle died Sunday after battling stage 4 cancer since June of this
year. For 26 years, Steve played jazz, and blues music on radio
stations KINK, KMHD and KGON.
CAMILLE
BOHANNON
The Mickey Mouse Club was an ABC television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned in 2017 to social
media. It was created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt
Disney Productions.
Walt Disney (center) with the Mouseketeers in 1955.
The children’s tv series Captain Kangaroo aired weekday
mornings on the American television network CBS from
October 3, 1955, until December 8, 1984, making it the
longest-running nationally broadcast children’s tv
program of its day. The show was conceived and the
title character was played by Bob Keeshan, who had
portrayed the original Clarabell the Clown on The
Howdy Doody show that aired on NBC.
Robert James Keeshan
(June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004)
President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation in the first
live, coast-to-coast television broadcast. (AP)
On September 4, 1951, President Harry S. Truman’s opening speech before a conference in San Francisco was broadcast across the nation, marking the
first time a TV program was broadcast from coast to coast. The speech
focused on Truman’s acceptance of a treaty that officially ended America’s
post-World War II occupation of Japan.
According to the CBS television network, the broadcast, via then-state-of-the-
art microwave technology, was picked up by 87 stations in 47 cities.
U.S. President Truman addresses the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.
