Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried (February 28, 1955 – April 12, 2022)
The actor and stand-up comedian died from a rare genetic muscle
disease that can trigger a dangerously abnormal heartbeat.
Gottfried began performing at only 15-years-old, has also appeared
on television shows and in movies.
Lorenzo “Larry” Caramella
(August 10, 1925 – January 16, 2018)
Larry began his long career in broadcasting as
a DJ, booth announcer, newscaster, talk show
host, and broadcast engineer. He was with KPOJ,
KXL, KGW (below), KPTV, and KATU along with
other stations.
On March 15, 1962, KATU in Portland, Oregon went on the air with
its first broadcast in black-and-white.
In 1973, KATU’s Eyewitness News Team was anchored by
(seated) Dick Bogle (left) and Gary Bentley (right) standing:
Weatherman Jim “The Boz” Bosley (left) and Sportscaster
Roger Twibell (right).
John Logie Baird at the Science Museum in London, circa August 1926, with his "televisor".
On January 26, 1926, John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor,
gave the first public demonstration of a true TV system
in London, launching a revolution in communication and
entertainment. Baird’s invention, a pictorial-transmission
machine he called a “televisor,” used mechanical rotating
disks to scan moving images into electronic impulses.
This information was then transmitted by cable to a screen
where it showed up as a low-resolution pattern of light and
dark. Baird’s first television program showed the heads of
two ventriloquist dummies, which he operated in front of the
camera apparatus out of view of the audience.
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This image is the first recorded picture taken from a TV
screen.
John Logie Baird (1888 – 1946)
