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As an African-American television reporter, Jenkins was an anchor and correspondent for WNBC-TV in New York for nearly 25 years. She reported from the floor of national presidential conventions from the 1970s to the 1990s, and from South Africa she reported on the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and co-produced an Emmy-nominated prime ...
But in early 1970, Schaefer resumed its occasional Award Theatre screenings. However, in contrast to the 1959–68 period where it was seen exclusively on WCBS-TV and scheduled to air around holiday times, the program was now seen once a month, and the beer maker divided its new airings between that station and WNBC-TV, with two films being shown on the latter station in the summer of 1970.
Movie 4 (also known as Movie Four) is a television program that aired at various times, but predominantly weekday afternoons, on various television stations on channel 4, including WNBC-TV in New York City from 1956 to 1974. WNBC's program aired top-rank first-run movies and other future classics from Hollywood, as well as foreign films. As ...
During the early days of television, the major studios were hesitant to release their films on TV. The movies that did make it to television were usually low-budget B movies or older black-and-white academy ratio films that had already lost their value in theaters, with the notable exceptions of some of Walt Disney's films and The Wizard of Oz (1939).
He started at WNBC-TV in New York City in 1963 and became one of the city's first black television journalists and went on to work as a reporter, anchorman, and producer for more than three decades. [3] He retired from WNBC-TV in 1991. He wrote two books. "Live and Off-Color: News Biz (1982, A&W Publishers) is an autobiography.
WNBC-TV New York news anchor Charles Bishop Scarborough III (born November 4, 1943) is an American television journalist and author. From 1974 to 2024, he was the lead news anchor at WNBC , the New York City flagship station of the NBC Television Network and has also appeared on NBC News .
Sue Simmons (born May 27, 1942) [1] is an American retired news anchor who was best known for being the lead female anchor at WNBC in New York City from 1980 to 2012. Her contract with WNBC expired in June 2012 and WNBC announced that it would not renew it. Her final broadcast was on June 15, 2012, shortly after her 70th birthday. [2]
An estimated 100 million people watched the controversial made-for-TV movie The Day After on ABC, depicting the start of a nuclear war. November 24 Sesame Street on PBS dealt with the sensitive issue of death when Big Bird learns the concept as it relates to his late friend, Mr. Hooper ( Will Lee , the actor who played Mr. Hooper, died of a ...