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November 1st, 2013, 02:58 PM
From The Denver Post:
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And now a bit of local broadcasting history. Channel 7 today marks 60 years of broadcasting. (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/kmgh-7news-celebrates-our-60th-birthday) To help viewers recall the years, the station has posted a celebratory slideshow.
The old KLZ studios, an early “mobile unit” (ie. vintage car with an antenna attached), baby-faced Jim Redmond, Bertha Lynn and more are included. Fred & Fae, the reigning kidvid personalities of the ’60s, Bob Palmer, Carl Akers and other veterans of the station seem to be left out.
KLZ-TV Channel 7 went on the air as a CBS affiliate in 1953. It was the first Denver station to have a bureau in Washington, D.C., back when that was an economic possibility. It was the first Colorado station to get cameras inside a courtroom in 1955. Channel 7 carried one of the first global live satellite TV interviews, with President Dwight Eisenhower in the Channel 7 studio and Winston Churchill in England.
In the market’s 1995 affiliation swap, Channel 7 (then KMGH for owner McGraw-Hill) went from CBS to ABC. It remains an ABC affiliate, now owned by E.W. Scripps Company.
More... (http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/2013/11/01/channel-7-marks-60-years-of-denver-tv/16986/)
http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/wp-content/blogs.dir/49/files/2013/11/kmgh-history-231.png
And now a bit of local broadcasting history. Channel 7 today marks 60 years of broadcasting. (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/kmgh-7news-celebrates-our-60th-birthday) To help viewers recall the years, the station has posted a celebratory slideshow.
The old KLZ studios, an early “mobile unit” (ie. vintage car with an antenna attached), baby-faced Jim Redmond, Bertha Lynn and more are included. Fred & Fae, the reigning kidvid personalities of the ’60s, Bob Palmer, Carl Akers and other veterans of the station seem to be left out.
KLZ-TV Channel 7 went on the air as a CBS affiliate in 1953. It was the first Denver station to have a bureau in Washington, D.C., back when that was an economic possibility. It was the first Colorado station to get cameras inside a courtroom in 1955. Channel 7 carried one of the first global live satellite TV interviews, with President Dwight Eisenhower in the Channel 7 studio and Winston Churchill in England.
In the market’s 1995 affiliation swap, Channel 7 (then KMGH for owner McGraw-Hill) went from CBS to ABC. It remains an ABC affiliate, now owned by E.W. Scripps Company.
More... (http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/2013/11/01/channel-7-marks-60-years-of-denver-tv/16986/)