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Christine Chubbuck [a] (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida.. The first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast, Chubbuck shot herself in the head with a gun on July 15, 1974 during WXLT-TV's Suncoast Digest, after claiming that the network was about to present "an exclusive ...
Christine Chubbuck: 29 News reporter on WXLT in Sarasota, Florida (on-air suicide) July 19 Joe Flynn: 49 Actor (Capt. Binghamton on McHale's Navy) October 13 Ed Sullivan: 73 Host (The Ed Sullivan Show) November 5 Stafford Repp: 56 Actor (Chief O'Hara on Batman) December 11 Reed Hadley: 63 Actor (Rocket Squad, The Public Defender) December 21 ...
After 20 years and 5,195 episodes, The Secret Storm ends its run on CBS’s daytime schedule. Ten days later, the show is replaced by Tattletales, a Bert Convy-hosted game show that is devoted to celebrity gossip. March 11 The children's special Free to Be… You and Me, produced by comedic actress Marlo Thomas, airs on ABC.
The story of a 1970s TV reporter, who was the first person to commit suicide on live television, is taking Sundance by storm.
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Christine Chubbuck committed suicide by shooting herself in the head on live TV and the 1974 broadcast has become notable for many reasons.
The 2013–14 daytime network television schedule for four of the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2013 to August 2014. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, and any series canceled after the 2012–13 season.
A few months back, we published an article that centered around a curious and tragic figure in the history of American broadcasting: Christine Chubbuck, an on-air correspondent for a news station ...