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Brooklyn Botanic Garden founded. Population: 1,634.351. [3] 1912 – Brooklyn Music School founded and owns and operates a four-story building located at 126 St. Felix St. that contains twenty-four classrooms, three dance studios, and a 266-seat Spanish Style theatre. 1913 – Ebbets Field stadium opens. 1914 – Church of St. Francis of Assisi ...
WNBC-TV was the first station on the East Coast to air a two-hour nightly newscast, [33] and the first major-market station in the country to find success in airing a 5 p.m. report, when NewsCenter 4 (a format created for WNBC by pioneering news executive Lee Hanna) [35] was introduced in 1974, a time when channel 4 ran a distant third in the ...
In 1981, WBZ-TV was the first Boston television station to broadcast live wire-to-wire coverage of the Boston Marathon; the station continued to do so every year through 2022, and was the only Boston station to do so starting in 2007 (WCVB-TV and WHDH-TV also carried the race in its entirety during much of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s).
December 17: WABD moved from Channel 4 to Channel 5. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. becomes U.S. representative for New York's 22nd congressional district. [103] 1946 January 12: New York City Victory Parade of 1946. May 20: a United States Army Air Forces C-45 Beechcraft airplane crashed into the 58th floor on the north side of 40 Wall Street killing ...
A new series of Unreported World was due to start on 18 February 2022 [131] with a report by Seyi Rhodes in South Sudan, but was dropped due to an extended storm report on Channel 4 News. When the programme was rescheduled for following Fridays, it was dropped again as Channel 4 News was extended due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [132]
WSBK finally launched a 10 p.m. local newscast on October 25, 1993, by way of the WBZ-produced WBZ News 4 on TV 38, competing against both WLVI and a New England Cable News (NECN)-produced program on WFXT; [28] this program was canceled on August 6, 1995, soon after the sale of WSBK to Paramount, as it was felt that the WBZ News 4 branding was ...
2 November – Channel 4 marks the exact date of its 25th anniversary by bringing back its original idents from 1982 for a single day. There is also a repeat of the first-ever episode of Countdown, along with a special 25th birthday episode airing immediately afterwards and later that evening, Jimmy Carr hosts The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz.
CBS then traded controlling interest in KCNC and KUTV to Group W in return for a minority stake in KYW-TV. As compensation for the loss of stations, NBC and CBS traded transmitter facilities in Miami, with the NBC-owned WTVJ moving to channel 6 and the CBS-owned WCIX moving to channel 4 as WFOR-TV. [155]