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WJBF-TV was a primary NBC affiliate, but picked up programs from CBS, ABC and DuMont on a secondary basis. Sister station WJBF radio was sold by Fuqua in 1954 (it is now WEZO). [4] It lost CBS only three months later when WRDW-TV (channel 12) signed on. On September 1, 1967, WJBF became a primary ABC affiliate. [5]
Date Event Ref. January 15 Harry Truman becomes the first U.S. president to broadcast his farewell address on both radio and television.: February 18 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the I Love Lucy television series through at least 1955.
From the 1950s to the 1990s, Fuqua developed several businesses. For example, he developed dealership locations for lawnmower manufacturer Snapper.He also developed multiple media outlets, including WJBF-TV in Augusta, Georgia, which was a TV station whose call sign shared the initials of his name.
Date Event Ref. January 31 CBS broadcasts The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, a multi-Emmy-winning adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’ novel of the same name which follows the 110-year life of a former slave from the American Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.
ATLANTA (AP) — Amid a renewed push to remove Confederate monuments following the death of George Floyd, a rural Georgia city is confronting the fate of a rare, 18th-century pavilion where slaves ...
WHBF-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Rock Island, Illinois, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Quad Cities area. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Burlington, Iowa–licensed CW owned-and-operated station KGCW (channel 26); Nexstar also provides certain services to Davenport, Iowa–licensed Fox affiliate KLJB (channel 18) under a shared services ...
Name Sworn in Left office Notes Reference John Milton: 1792 [1]Thomas Cumming 1798 Father of Henry Cumming [2]Walter Leigh 1815 1817 [3]Freeman Walker: 1818 1819 Nicholas Ware
On the morning of September 20, 2014, Tammy went to work her shift starting at 7 a.m. Her coworkers there say she was agitated about something, uncharacteristically raising her voice in conversation, and checked her own blood pressure four times, finding it high.