Arthur W. Ferguson
At age 16, Tuna began working at his hometown radio
station, KGFW in Kearney, Nebraska.
Tuna received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
(as "Charlie Tuna") in January 1990, and was inducted
into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of
Fame in 1999. On July 18, 2008, he was voted into the
National Radio Hall of Fame.
Star-Kist 1970 Charlie the Tuna transistor radio.
On August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball
game was broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was
to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game
between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at
Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
The Reds won the first, 5–2 while the Dodgers won the second,
6–1.
This all started in April of 1939 with the opening of The World’s
Fair, when David Sarnoff told the nation that RCA had “added
radio sight to sound”, and officially kicked off the age of
television.
Barber (in suit) called the first game on NBC Radio and
moved over to TV for the second game.
The President of RCA, David Sarnoff, dedicating the RCA
Building at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.
(FOX NEWS) – Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the famous sex therapist
and media personality, has passed away at the age of 96.
Westheimer died on Friday surrounded by her family in New
York City, according to her publicist.
Known for her frank discussions of sexual topics and amusing
candor, Westheimer has appeared on numerous late-night talk
shows and authored multiple best-selling books.
Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish family. As the
Nazis came to power, her parents sent the ten-year-old girl to
a school in Switzerland for safety, remaining behind themselves
because of her elderly grandmother.
They were both subsequently sent to concentration camps by
the Gestapo, where they were killed.
After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and
sociology from Eureka College in 1932. Ronald Reagan took
a job in Davenport, Iowa, as a sports broadcaster for four
football games in the Big Ten Conference. He then worked
for WHO radio in Des Moines as a broadcaster for the
Chicago Cubs.
His specialty was creating play-by-play accounts of games
using only basic descriptions that the station received by
wire as the games were in progress
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)
1939
Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)
Judy Garland was a actress, singer, and dancer. she received
a Golden Globe Award, a Special Tony Award and was one of
twelve in history to receive an Academy Juvenile Award.
Garland won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for her
1961 live recording, Judy at Carnegie Hall; she was the first
woman to win that award.
Throughout her career she recorded, her signature song, and
the Christmas classic "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
Garland’s birthplace in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, is now a museum dedicated to her life and career.
