What was on television in 1956? Ed Sullivan, soap operas went from 15 minutes to a half-hour, and videotape was first used. Jonathan Winters used it to be able to play two characters in the same skit. And on Sunday, Jan. 1 of 1956, WREG, (the call letters were WREC then) signed on the air. […]
What was on television in 1956?
Ed Sullivan, soap operas went from 15 minutes to a half-hour, and videotape was first used.
Jonathan Winters used it to be able to play two characters in the same skit.
And on Sunday, Jan. 1 of 1956, WREG, (the call letters were WREC then) signed on the air.
WREG, Tribune’s CBS affiliate in Memphis, celebrated its 60th birthday on New Year’s Day.
“For the past 60 years the station has been quite strong,” said Ron Walter, WREG’s general manager, “going all the way back to the visionary Hoyt Wooten who actually founded the station.”
WREG’s hour-long special, Memphis: On A Mission, was recently nominated for an Emmy.
The special aired with no commercials and explored what can be done to make the community a better place in which to live.
Here’s Part 1 of the special and below that is how the station’s news department covered its 60-year anniversary.
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