Saturday’s Nostalgic News – May 20

“TV/RADIO TODAY”

• 1933 – “Charlie Chan” was heard for the final time on the NBC Blue radio network, after only six months on the air.
• 1939 – The first telecast over telephone wires was sent from Madison Square Garden to the NBC-TV studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. The event was a bicycle race.
• 1961 – Cliff Richard made his first appearance on television on the U.K. ITV show Thank Your Lucky Stars.
• 1968 – BBC 2 TV aired a short play ‘The Pistol Shot’, featuring a young dancer – artist called David Bowie.
• 1982 – TV’s “Barney Miller” was seen for the last time on ABC-TV.

• 1985 – Radio Marti was launched.
• 1993 – The final episode of “Cheers” was aired on NBC-TV

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