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Under a court order, Mid-Florida ceded operational control of WFTV in 1969 to Channel Nine of Orlando, Inc., a consortium of the five companies vying for the full-time broadcast license. After enduring a fatal collapse of its tower in 1973 and returning to full power in 1975, WFTV rode the rising fortunes of the ABC network in the late 1970s to ...
August 13, 1969: Chicago ticker-tape parade for the crew of Apollo 11. The three Apollo 11 astronauts rode in ticker-tape parades in their honor in New York and Chicago, with an estimated six million attendees. On the same evening in Los Angeles there was an official state dinner to celebrate the flight, attended by members of Congress, 44 ...
September 9 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a DC-9 airliner, collides in flight with a small Piper PA-28 airplane, and crashes near Fairland, Indiana, killing all 83 people in both aircraft. September 11 – An annular solar eclipse is visible in Pacific Ocean and South America, and is the 41st solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134 .
Pages in category "August 1969" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... August 1969; 0–9. 1969 Vnukovo Airport Il-18 crash; C.
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The Woodstock rock festival also took place in August 1969, and the Harlem festival then became known informally as the "Black Woodstock". [8] [9] The Festival also involved the participation of community activists and civic leaders including Jesse Jackson. [10] The series of six free concerts had a combined attendance of nearly 300,000. [4]
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On March 24, 1997, WRBW began airing a half-hour weekngiht 10 p.m. newscast produced by Orlando's ABC affiliate, WFTV (channel 9)—the second newscast in that time slot in the market. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] United Television —a subsidiary of Chris-Craft Industries and half-owner of UPN—agreed to buy WRBW from Rainbow in October 1997. [ 41 ]