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Dorothy Lamour (born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American actress and singer.She is best remembered for having appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
Valley Public Radio consists of two FM stations–KVPR in Fresno (89.3 MHz) and satellite station KPRX in Bakersfield (89.1 MHz). Despite having no translators, the two stations' combined signal covers most of California's San Joaquin Valley , including the cities of Fresno, Bakersfield, Visalia , Madera , Tulare , Clovis , Merced , and Hanford ...
Prior to the adoption of the rule, which was first proposed on July 1, 1964, AM radio stations that had an FM radio transmitter would use the FM band as an adjunct to simulcast the AM radio programs. "Obviously," the commission would write in 1965, "it is a waste of valuable spectrum space to use two frequencies to bring the same material to ...
Over three days, 16 people were injured, one died, and more than 50 buildings in the Puerto Rican neighborhoods on the city's northwest side, near the intersection of Division Street and Damen Avenue, were destroyed. [67] [68] [69]
By a vote of 40,083 to 27,932, residents of Alaska voted to move the state capital from Juneau to a location near the village of Willow, 575 miles (925 km) away. The proposed capital was 37 miles (60 km) from Anchorage and voters opted for a site at least 30 miles (48 km) from Anchorage or Fairbanks . [ 280 ]
Radio broadcaster Francis "Chick" Hearn did his first play-by-play reporting of a Los Angeles Laker basketball game (a 110–104 loss to the Philadelphia Warriors), the first of 3,338 consecutive game calls. Hearn's streak would last past his 85th birthday, until December 16, 2001, three days before scheduled open-heart surgery.
Estrella TV's beginnings trace back to 1998, when Liberman Broadcasting – owner of Spanish language radio stations in several media markets with large Spanish language populations, including four radio stations in the third-largest U.S. market – made its entry into television broadcasting when its founders, Mexican-born media executive Jose Liberman and his son Lenard, purchased KRCA ...
John Snagge, British radio personality; in Chelsea, London, England (d. 1996) [122] Died: Richard Xavier Baxter, 83, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and venerable [123] Eadweard Muybridge, 74, British photographer and motion picture pioneer, died of prostate cancer. [124] Frederick York Powell, 54, English historian and scholar [125]