➦In 1916...Journalist Daniel Schorr born (Died at 93 – July 23, 2010). He covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his television journalism. Born in the Bronx, NY, he began his journalism career at the age of 13, when he came upon a woman who had jumped or fallen from the roof of his apartment building. After calling the police, he phoned the Bronx Home News and was paid $5 for his information.
Following several years as a stringer, in 1953 he joined CBS News as one of the recruits of Edward R. Murrow (becoming part of the later generation of Murrow's Boys). Schorr died from an apparent "short illness" on July 23, 2010, at a Washington, D.C. hospital. He was 93 years old. Schorr's last broadcast commentary for NPR aired on Saturday, July 10, 2010.
➦In 1920...The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.
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| Circa 1920 |
8MK was initially licensed to Michael DeLisle Lyons, a teenager, and radio pioneer. He assembled the station in the Detroit News Building but the Scripps family asked him to register the station in his name, because they were worried this new technology might only be a fad, and wanted to keep some distance. Later that year, Michael and his brother Frank, also assembled the first radio in a police car in Toledo, Ohio (with Ed Clark who started WJR 760 AM in Detroit). They captured a prowler using the radio, making national headlines. RCA got the contract to install radios in police cars across the country.
➦In 1941... Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuted on NBC. The show continued to air to 1957.
➦In 1942...'The Adventures of Superman', the long-running radio serial which started in 1940 on WOR NYC, moved to the Mutual Broadcast System. It aired as a 15-minute serial, running three or, usually, five times a week. From February 7 to June 24, 1949, it ran as a thrice-weekly half-hour show. The series shifted to ABC Saturday evenings on October 29, 1949, and then returned to afternoons twice a week on June 5, 1950, continuing on ABC until March 1, 1951. In all, 2,088 original episodes of The Adventures of Superman aired on radio.
i➦In 1976...a judge ruled that George Harrison was guilty of “subconcious plagiarism” from the song “He’s So Fine” (a 1963 hit by The Chiffons.) The judge said that the chorus to Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” was identical to “He’s So Fine,” and it eventually (appeals went on for about five years) cost the former Beatle more than half a million dollars.
➦In 1981...WXLO 98.7 FM (now sports WEPN) NYC adopted the “Kiss” brand as The station completed its transition to new urban contemporary format. Early on, WRKS played a great deal of R&B and dance music, and became an almost instant hit with listeners, as its ratings skyrocketed from 22nd place to third. Notable Kiss FM Mixmasters at the time were Shep Pettibone and the Latin Rascals, who relied heavily on freestyle music. Longtime urban contemporary leader WBLS was caught off-guard by the sudden rise of the new station.
➦In 1995...The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened in Cleveland, Ohio with a seven-hour concert featuring dozens of artists.
➦In 2008....CBS News radio/TV reporter Ike Pappas died of heart failure at 75. Pappas was among the throng of reporters present at the Dallas City Jail November 1963 for presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's transfer to the County Jail.
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| Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald 11/24/63 |
Working for WNEW 1130 AM in New York at the time, Pappas began his report as Oswald came into view:
"Now the prisoner, wearing a black sweater, he's changed from his T-shirt, is being moved out toward an armored car. Being led out by Captain Fritz." (car horn sounds) There's the prisoner. (Pappas holds his microphone out towards Oswald) Do you have anything to say in your defense..."
As Pappas asked Oswald the question, Jack Ruby stepped out of the crowd of reporters with a pistol, moved in front of Oswald and fired one shot into Oswald's abdomen.
"There's a shot! Oswald has been shot! Oswald has been shot! A shot rang out. Mass confusion here, all the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel!"
Pappas later testified in Ruby's trial.
➦In 2011...The 1985 Dire Straits’ song “Money For Nothing,” was reinstated on Canadian radio playlists after a public outcry resulted from the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) labelling of the song as “unacceptable”. That decision was made based on onecomplaint from a radio listener, who objected to the song’s use of the word “faggot.” Said broadcaster Alan Cross, “it made us look silly in the eyes of the broadcast community around the world.”
➦In 2011...CHUM personality and manager Bob Laine died at age 72. Laine began his radio career at CFRS in Simcoe, Ont., but quickly moved to CHUM Toronto, signing on as the all-night DJ in May 1958.
He stayed there, with his signature opening, "Good morning world, this is Bob-O. Good morning Bob-O, this is world," for a decade, with one brief interruption.
"The Voice" left CHUM in March 1962 for a very short stint as CFGM's morning man but was back at the overnight show in May of that same year.
Mr. Laine moved to afternoons in 1968 and then into management in the 1970s as program director of CHUM-FM. He retired in 2003 as a corporate vice-president after almost 46 years with the company.
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| Van Morrison is 77 |
🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAYS:
- Singer Van Morrison is 77.
- Violinist Itzhak Perlman is 77.
Guitarist Rudolf Schenker of Scorpions is 74.
Debbie Gibson is 52 - Actor Richard Gere is 73.
- Actor Stephen Henderson (“Fences,” ″Manchester by the Sea”) is 73.
- Singer Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze is 65.
- Drummer Gina Schock of The Go-Go’s is 65.
- Singer Tony DeFranco of The DeFranco Family is 63.
- Keyboardist Larry Waddell of Mint Condition is 59.
- Actor Jaime P. Gomez (“Nash Bridges”) is 57.
- Guitarist Jeff Russo of Tonic is 53.
- Singer Deborah Gibson is 52.
- Bassist Greg Richling of The Wallflowers is 52.
- Actor Zack Ward (“A Christmas Story,” ″Titus”) is 52.
- Actor Chris Tucker (“Rush Hour”) is 50.
- Actor Sara Ramirez (“Grey’s Anatomy”) is 47.
- Singer Tamara of Trina and Tamara is 45.
✞DEATH ANNIVERSARIES
- Princess Diana died in a Paris car crash with her companion, Dodi Fayed, 25 years ago on this day in 1997. She was 36 and Fayed was 42. Driver Henri Paul, who also died, was found to have been intoxicated and speeding as he tried to escape the paparazzi. ("Calendar Extra" below.)
- Heavyweight boxer Rocky Marciano, who retired undefeated with 49 wins, died in a plane crash on this day in 1969. He was 45.
- In 2013, famed British-born broadcaster and journalist Sir David Frost suffered a fatal heart attack at age 74. He was the only man to have interviewed all British prime ministers and all US presidents from the 1960’s to the present day.
- Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, a three-time Cy Young Award winner, died on this day in 2020. He was 75.
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