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LOCAL DISC JOCKEY FIRED ON THIS DAY IN 1957

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Christmas With Elvis EP

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NEWSCASTER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1911

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Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley (December 10, 1911 – March 20, 1974)

Chet Huntley was a television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC’s
evening news, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.

He attended three different colleges: Montana State University, Cornish College
of the Arts, and the University of Washington. Early in his career, Chet worked
for Seattle, Washington’s AM radio station KIRO and later went to 620 AM KGW
radio in Portland, Oregon where he was a writer, newscaster and announcer
from 1936 to 1937. 

CHET AT CBS RADSIO
A young Chet Huntley conducts an interview for
CBS radio.

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NBC news anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley

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GAME SHOW HOST IS 80 TODAY

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Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale

The well known television game show host of Tic Tac Dough (NBC/CBS) 
was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and started his career as a disc jockey
at age 17 at WPLI in Jackson, earning $25 a week.

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Wink Martindale in his debut role on TV was for a
children’s sci-fi program
called “Mars Patrol”.

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1959

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IN THE NEWS ON THIS DAY

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Camille Bohannon

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BROADCAST DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1929

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Gertrude Berg (born Tillie Edelstein) played Molly 
Goldberg

The Goldbergs is a domestic comedy-drama featuring
the home life of a Jewish family living in the Bronx. The
program was devised by writer-actress Gertrude Berg
who also starred as the lovingly meddlesome matriarch
Molly Goldberg. The 15-minute program was broadcast
from 1929 to 1946, first on NBC, later moving to CBS in 
1936.

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