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Jeffries starred as a singing cowboy, in several all-black Western films, in which he sang his own western compositions. In those films, Jeffries starred as cowboy Bob Blake, sang and performed his own stunts. Bob Blake was the good guy, with a thin mustache, who wore a white Stetson and rode a white horse named Stardusk.
The Kansas City Star, based in Kansas City, Missouri, is our region’s largest newsroom and covers both Kansas and Missouri news and issues. Published since 1880, The Star is the recipient of ...
A Black cowboy from the early 1900s. Black cowboys in the American West accounted for up to an estimated 25% of cowboys "who went up the trail" from the 1860s to 1880s, estimated to be at least 5,000 individuals. [1] They were also part of the rest of the ranching industry in the West. [2] [3]
KMBC-TV presently broadcasts 34 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday and 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to local news programming, it is the third-highest newscast output among the Kansas City market's television stations. KMBC also produces 22 ...
Much of the Cowboy Channel's non-sports programming is drawn from RFD-TV's program library, with an emphasis on ranching and rodeo programs (thus the Cowboy Channel does not carry RFD-TV's music, agribusiness or news programming). Like RFD-TV, the Cowboy Channel carries brokered televangelism programming on Sunday mornings.
The Kansas City Star is the city's primary newspaper, published daily. [7] Other papers published in the city include: The Call, local African-American news, weekly [8] Kansas City Business Journal, business news, weekly [9] The Kansas City Globe, local African-American news, weekly [10] Kansas City Hispanic News, local Hispanic news, weekly [11]
Several applications had been made for channel 62 in Kansas City in the late 1960s, including by Dick Bailey and TVue Associates, [2] but interest around the channel allocation started in earnest at the end of the 1970s, as several business ventures around the country analyzed using unused UHF channels in major cities to broadcast subscription television (STV) programming.
William Rockhill Nelson. The paper, originally called The Kansas City Evening Star, was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. [3] The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the Fort Wayne News Sentinel (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful ...