January 17, 1922
Betty Marion White is born.
Actress, comedian, presenter, singer, author and
television personality. In 2013, the Guinness
World Records awarded White with
having the longest television career for a female entertainer. To contemporary audiences, White is best
known for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The
Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls. Since the death of co-star Rue McClanahan in 2010, she is the only surviving Golden Girl. She
currently stars as Elka Ostrovsky in the TV Land sitcom Hot in
Cleveland for which she has won
two consecutive Screen
Actors Guild Awards. She also hosted
NBCs practical-joke show Betty White's Off Their Rockers which resulted in two Emmy nominations.Regarded as a television pioneer for being one of the first women in
television to have creative control in front of and behind the camera, White
has gone on to win six Emmy Awards (five for acting), receiving 20 Emmy nominations over
her career, including being the first woman to receive an Emmy for game show hosting (for the short-lived Just Men!) and is the only woman to have won an Emmy in all
performing comedic categories. In May 2010, White became the oldest person to guest-host Saturday
Night Live, for which she
received a Primetime
Emmy Award. White also holds the
record for longest span between Emmy nominations for performances—her first was
in 1951 and her most recent was in 2012, a span of 61 years—and has become the
oldest nominee as of 2013, aged 91. The actress is also the oldest winner of a
competitive Grammy Award, which she won in 2012.
Due to her legacy and continued success within the entertainment
industry The American Comedy Awards, The Screen Actor Guild and the British
Academy of Film and Television Arts have all awarded White with Lifetime
achievement awards recognizing her contribution to television.
She has made regular appearances on the game shows Password and Match Game and played recurring roles on Mama's Family, Boston Legal, The
Bold and the Beautiful, That '70s Show, and Community.
January 19, 1957
Philadelphia comedian, Ernie Kovacs, did a half-hour
TV show without saying a single word of dialogue.
Silent Show was an American half-hour television comedy
special created by and starring Ernie Kovacs.
It was broadcast in the United States on the NBC network in 1957. It was selected by the United
States as the only television program screened at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. Kovacs restaged and expanded the
"Eugene" sketch for the ABC network in 1961.January 22, 1947
The first
television station west of the Mississippi River goes on the air.
The station was KTLA-TV in Hollywood. The station
began broadcasting at 8:30 p.m. from a converted garage. When the first Emmy
Awards were handed out two years later, KTLA swept the awards for its original
programming.January 22, 1972
Emergency premieres
Emergency, produced by Dragnet star and producer Jack
Webb, premieres, featuring the same semidocumentary style popularized by Webb's
earlier police drama. Emergency was based on the paramedic program that started
in Los Angeles, California in 1969. Senator Alan Cranston actually praised the
show for informing the public about the value of funding such programs!
The show focused on the adventures of paramedics Roy DeSoto and Johnny Gage.
The show, which ran from 1972 to 1977, foreshadowed later hits like E.R.,
with its interwoven comic and serious subplots.Julie
London was married to fellow Emergency cast member Bobby Troup. In an earlier
marriage, London was married to Jack Webb. Bobby Troup was a bandleader before
becoming an actor.
January 22, 1987 - Phil
Donahue became the first talk show host to tape a show from inside the Soviet
Union.
The
shows were shown later in the year.January 23, 1977
The miniseries
Roots debuts on ABC.
The show
traced four generations of an African-American family based on the family of
author Alex Haley. Running for eight consecutive days, the miniseries became
the single most watched program in American history, drawing about 100 million
viewers.
January 17, 1922
Betty Marion White is born.
Actress, comedian, presenter, singer, author and television personality. In 2013, the Guinness World Records awarded White with having the longest television career for a female entertainer. To contemporary audiences, White is best known for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls. Since the death of co-star Rue McClanahan in 2010, she is the only surviving Golden Girl. She currently stars as Elka Ostrovsky in the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland for which she has won two consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards. She also hosted NBCs practical-joke show Betty White's Off Their Rockers which resulted in two Emmy nominations.Regarded as a television pioneer for being one of the first women in
television to have creative control in front of and behind the camera, White
has gone on to win six Emmy Awards (five for acting), receiving 20 Emmy nominations over
her career, including being the first woman to receive an Emmy for game show hosting (for the short-lived Just Men!) and is the only woman to have won an Emmy in all
performing comedic categories. In May 2010, White became the oldest person to guest-host Saturday
Night Live, for which she
received a Primetime
Emmy Award. White also holds the
record for longest span between Emmy nominations for performances—her first was
in 1951 and her most recent was in 2012, a span of 61 years—and has become the
oldest nominee as of 2013, aged 91. The actress is also the oldest winner of a
competitive Grammy Award, which she won in 2012.
Due to her legacy and continued success within the entertainment
industry The American Comedy Awards, The Screen Actor Guild and the British
Academy of Film and Television Arts have all awarded White with Lifetime
achievement awards recognizing her contribution to television.
She has made regular appearances on the game shows Password and Match Game and played recurring roles on Mama's Family, Boston Legal, The
Bold and the Beautiful, That '70s Show, and Community.
January 19, 1957
Philadelphia comedian, Ernie Kovacs, did a half-hour
TV show without saying a single word of dialogue.
January 22, 1947
The first television station west of the Mississippi River goes on the air.
The station was KTLA-TV in Hollywood. The station began broadcasting at 8:30 p.m. from a converted garage. When the first Emmy Awards were handed out two years later, KTLA swept the awards for its original programming.
January 22, 1972
Emergency premieres
Julie London was married to fellow Emergency cast member Bobby Troup. In an earlier marriage, London was married to Jack Webb. Bobby Troup was a bandleader before becoming an actor.
January 22, 1987 - Phil Donahue became the first talk show host to tape a show from inside the Soviet Union.
The shows were shown later in the year.
January 23, 1977
The miniseries Roots debuts on ABC.
The show traced four generations of an African-American family based on the family of author Alex Haley. Running for eight consecutive days, the miniseries became the single most watched program in American history, drawing about 100 million viewers.
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