CHILD OF TELEVISION

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: SNL Real Audio - Jesus Today

a little spark of madness

that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.

SNL Real Audio - Jesus Today from David Daly on Vimeo.
SNL Real Audio - Jesus Today from David Daly on Vimeo.

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Tony Figueroa

Monday, December 26, 2016

a little spark of madness

that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.

Today is Kwanzaa (until Jan 1st)
and Boxing Day

Kwanzaa
A Short Film
Directed By
Stephen Anthony Bailey

Starring
Kevin Scott Williams
Paige Diaz
Donna Allen
Jon Durnell
JaySin Matlock

Written and Produced By Kevin Scott Williams

Unlimited Destiny Productions
2016

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Tony Figueroa

Sunday, December 25, 2016

Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Last Christmas - GEORGE MICHAEL

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart

-George Michael

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou

known professionally as George Michael

25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016

George Michael died today at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

In his memory here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"

Good Night George
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Tony Figueroa

Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Christmas Day and the first day of Chanukah/Hanukkah

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"

a little spark of madness

that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas and Chanukah spirit.

Christmas Day and

the first day of Chanukah/Hanukkah

December 25, 1941

Bing Crosby introduces "White Christmas" to the world

"White Christmas," written by the formidable composer and lyricist Irving Berlin receives its world premiere on this day in 1941 on Bing Crosby's weekly NBC radio program, The Kraft Music Hall. It went on to become one of the most commercially successful singles of all time, and the top-selling single ever until being surpassed by Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997."

"White Christmas" took its first steps toward becoming a bedrock standard in the American songbook when Crosby first performed it publicly on Christmas Day, 1941. The song's success couldn't have surprised Berlin, who despite having already written such songs as "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Cheek To Cheek" and "God Bless America," had raced into his Manhattan office in January 1940 and asked his musical secretary to transcribe "The best song I ever wrote...the best song anybody ever wrote." It was nearly two years later, however, that Crosby finally premiered the song on live radio, and a year after that that Crosby's recording of "White Christmas" became a smash pop hit.

Crosby's October 1942 recording of "White Christmas" received heavy airplay on Armed Forces Radio as well as on commercial radio during its first Christmas season, becoming an instant #1 pop hit. It also returned to the Hit Parade pop chart in every subsequent Christmas season for the next 20 years. Unlike other perennial holiday hits, however, "White Christmas" strikes a mood that isn't necessarily jolly. As Jody Rosen, author of the 2002 book White Christmas: The Story of an American Song, told National Public Radio, "It's very melancholy....And I think this really makes it stand out amongst kind of chirpy seasonal standards [like] 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' or 'Let It Snow.'....I think that's one of the reasons why people keep responding to it, because our feelings over the holiday season are ambivalent."

This was certainly true of the immigrant Russian Jewish songwriter Irving Berlin. Though he did not celebrate Christmas, it was a day that held special meaning to Berlin, who had spent each Christmas Day visiting the grave of his late son, Irving Berlin, Jr., who died at just 3 weeks old on December 25, 1928. As Jody Rosen has suggested about a beloved song of great emotional complexity, "The kind of deep secret of ["White Christmas"] may be that it was Berlin responding in some way to his melancholy about the death of his son."

Adam Sandler - CHANUKAH (HANUKKAH) Song Part 4

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Tony Figueroa

Saturday, December 24, 2016

Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Ricky Nelson sings "The Christmas Song"

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"

a little spark of madness

that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.

Christmas Eve

Segment of a 1964 episode of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet " where Ricky Nelson sings The Christmas Song with family. The show was revisiting an episode from 1956, and then showing how the family has grown since.

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Tony Figueroa

Friday, December 23, 2016

Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Festivus and Susan Lucci

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"

a little spark of madness

that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.

Today is Festivus

December 23, 1946

Susan Victoria Lucci is born.

Actress, television host, author and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama All My Children. The character is considered an icon, and Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television. As early as 1991, her salary had been reported as over $1 million a year.

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Tony Figueroa

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Cartoon voice actors read Twas the Night Before Christmas

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"

a little spark of madness

that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.

December 22, 1931

The first experimental TV broadcast from a transmitter atop the Empire State Building took place. The transmitter was put up by NBC on October 30, 1931. The original tenant at the pinnacle of the mooring mast (the topmost portion of the building) was the National Broadcasting Company. NBC began experimental television transmissions from the first Empire State antenna on December 22, 1931. Separate transmitters for visual and aural transmissions were used with the call letters W2XF and W2XK respectively.

These two transmitters were operated concurrently with another NBC television transmitter already located at the New Amsterdam theatre studio on 42nd Street. This earlier station carried the call letters W2XBS (later transferred to the Empire State transmitter) and operated on approximately 2 MHz with 60-line, mechanically scanned picture signals. The first experimental transmission from the Empire State Building were 120-line pictures using mechanical scanning of both film and live subjects.

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Tony Figueroa

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: McHale's navy the day they captured Santa Claus

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"

a little spark of madness

that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.

December Solstice

Santa' McHale must practice some psychological warfare, when he, the crew, Binghamton, and a war correspondent are captured by a Japanese patrol, while on a mission to bring some Christmas joy to the children of a nearby orphanage.

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Tony Figueroa

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Don Most, Guy Lombardo and Holiday TV Favorites: Next on TVC

Singer/actor Don Most joins us for our annual holiday edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Dec. 23-26 at the following times and venues:

Share-a-Vision Radio
San Francisco Bay Area
Friday 12/23
7pm ET, 4pm PT
10pm ET, 7pm PT
Click on the Listen Live button at KSAV.org
Use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in KSAV
Hear us on the KSAV channel on CX Radio Brazil
Hear us on your cell phone or landline number by dialing 712-432-4235

Indiana Talks
Marion, IN
Saturday 12/24
8pm ET, 5pm PT
Sunday 12/25
6pm ET, 3pm PT
Click on the player at IndianaTalks.com
or use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in Indiana Talks

KSCO AM-1080 and FM-104.1
San Jose, Santa Cruz and Salinas, CA
KOMY AM-1340
La Selva Beach and Watsonville, CA
Sunday 12/25
9am ET, 6am PT
Also streaming at KSCO.com
or use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in KSCO

KHMB AM-1710
KHMV-LP 100.9 FM
Half Moon Bay, CA
Sunday 12/25
9pm PT
Monday 12/26
Midnight ET
Click on the Listen Live button at KHMBRadio.com

RadioSlot.com
San Francisco, CA
Monday 12/26
10pm ET, 7pm PT
with replays Tuesday thru Friday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT
Click on the Talk Slot button at RadioSlot.com

PWRNetwork
Ann Arbor, MI
Various times throughout the week
on the Entertainment Channel at PWRNetwork.com
and the PWR channel on TuneIn

Singer, actor and director Don Most returns this week as part of our annual holiday program. Known around the world as Ralph Malph on Happy Days, Don is also an accomplished musical performer who continues to bring his live musical show celebrating his love of big band and swing music to different venues all over the country (including Wednesday, Dec. 21 at Catalina’s Bar and Grill in Hollywood, CA).

Don’s new single, “C’est Si Bon,” is not only available as a digital single now through iTunes, but is part of Don's new Christmas album, Swinging Down the Chimney Tonight, which includes a heartfelt rendition of “The Christmas Song,” the Yuletide classic that Mel Torme essentially wrote for Nat King Cole. We’ll talk about Don’s love for the music of Torme and Cole, his upcoming CD, D Most: Mostly Swinging, and more, during our first hour.

This week’s show will also include an encore presentation of our roundtable discussion featuring Joanna Wilson about our favorite Christmas episodes and holiday TV specials. Joanna is the author of The Christmas TV Companion and Tis the Season TV. Then Phil Gries will join us in our second hour for our annual tribute to bandleader Guy Lombardo, with audio highlights from some of the first TV coverage of the ball drop at Times Square… including a rarely heard clip from New Year’s Eve 1965 featuring Howard Cosell.

TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television
Fri 7pm ET and PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org and CX Radio Brazil
Sat 8pm ET, 5pm PT and Sun 6pm ET, 3pm PT on Indiana Talks
Sun 9am ET, 6am PT KSCO-AM 1080 (San Jose, Santa Cruz and Salinas, CA)
Sun 9am ET, 6am PT KOMY-AM 1340 (La Selva Beach and Watsonville, CA)
Sun 9pm PT, Mon Mid ET on KHMB-AM and FM (Half Moon Bay, CA)
Mon 10pm ET, 7pm PT on The Radio Slot Network
Replays various times throughout the week on the Entertainment Channel at PWRNetwork
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