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Television related events in the USA during 1974
This is a list of American television -related events in 1974.
Date
Event
Ref.
January 31
CBS broadcasts The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest J. Gaines ’ novel of the same name which follows the 110-year life of a former slave from the American Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement . Cicely Tyson is tapped to play the title role.
February 1
KIVI-TV signs-on the air, giving the Boise market its first full-time ABC affiliate.
February 8
After 20 years and 5,195 episodes, The Secret Storm CBS ’s daytime schedule. Ten days later, the show is replaced by Tattletales Bert Convy -hosted game show that is devoted to celebrity gossip.
March 11
The children's special Free to Be… You and Me Marlo Thomas , airs on ABC .
March 13
The Execution of Private Slovik Pvt. Eddie Slovik , the only American soldier to be executed for desertion after the American Civil War , airs on NBC .
March 18
CBS 's cancellation of Here's Lucy Lucille Ball , which lasted 23 consecutive years beginning with the 1951 premiere of I Love Lucy
March
Chuck Scarbarough joins WNBC-TV and revamps its format as NewsCenter 4, signaling the debut of the NewsCenter format.
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April 5
The Dean Martin Show NBC after 264 hour-long episodes. NBC will continue to air periodic editions of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
April 26
KPVI signs-on the air, giving the Idaho Falls market its first full-time ABC affiliate.
July 15
Christine Chubbuck , a television reporter for WXLT in Sarasota, Florida commits suicide via a gunshot from behind her right ear during a live newscast on Suncoast Digest .
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August 8
U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his pending resignation live on television, effective at 12 Noon EDT the next day, at which time Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in as President.
WEVU (now WZVN-TV ) signs-on the air, giving the Fort Myers market its first full-time ABC affiliate.
August 25
Al Ham 's music theme Part of Your Life made its debut on WBTV-TV in Charlotte .
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September 10
Born Innocent Linda Blair , airs on NBC . The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to what the television preview deemed a women's prison (when in reality it was a reform school), drew heavy criticism due to an all-female rape scene, the first ever seen on American television. The scene was deleted in subsequent re-airings after a group of girls assaulted an eight-year-old with a pop bottle, influenced by the scene in the film.
October 6
Monty Python's Flying Circus British sketch comedy series that aired its final episode this year, is first shown on American television when PBS member station KERA-TV in Dallas, Texas airs it at 10 p.m. Central Daylight Time .[ 6] [ 7]
November 28
For the fourth time this year, ABC aligns with a new station as WOPC-TV in Altoona, Pennsylvania brings full-time ABC service to the Altoona-State College market. WOPC-TV struggles for viewers and goes dark in 1982; ABC would return to Altoona (and channel 23) in 1988 when Fox affiliate WWPC-TV (then a satellite of WWCP-TV in Johnstown ) breaks from its simulcast with WWCP-TV.
Other notable events [ edit ] Television stations [ edit ]
Date
City of License /Market
Station
Channel
Affiliation
Notes/Ref.
February
South Bend /Elkhart, Indiana
WNIT
34
PBS
February 1
Nampa /Boise, Idaho
KITC
6
ABC
March 31
Orlando, Florida
WOFL
35
Independent
April 26
Pocatello, Idaho
KPVI
6
ABC
May 5
Los Angeles , California
KVST-TV
68
Non-commercial independent
July 25
South Bend, Indiana
WMSH-TV
46
Independent
August 8
Naples /Fort Myers, Florida
WEVU
26
ABC
August 11
Booneville, Mississippi
WMAE-TV
12
PBS
Part of MSETV
September 9
Grand Forks, North Dakota
KGFE
2
PBS
Part of Prairie Public Television
September 29
New York City
WBTB-TV
68
Independent
October 5
Hagerstown, Maryland
WWPB
31
PBS
Part of Maryland Public Television
Sacramento, California
KMUV-TV
31
Independent
now a CW owned-and-operated station
November 28
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
WOPC
38
ABC
Now WATM-TV on channel 23
December 1
New Haven, Connecticut
WEDY
65
PBS
Part of the Connecticut Public Television network
December 15
Waterloo /Cedar Rapids, Iowa
KRIN
32
PBS
Part of Iowa Public Television
Network affiliation changes [ edit ]
Date
City of license/Market
Station
Channel
Affiliation
Sign-on date
Notes
March 28
Lebanon, New Hampshire
WRLH
31
NBC
September 10, 1966; had been silent from 1968 to August 3, 1971
April 30
Roanoke, Virginia
WRFT-TV
27
ABC
March 4, 1966
Returned to air September 7, 1974 – February 11, 1975, as WRLU
Unknown date
Chicago, Illinois
WXXW
20
PBS
September 20, 1965
Would return to the air in February 1983 as WYCC
^ "New anchor at WNBC-TV." Broadcasting , March 18, 1974americanradiohistory.com . Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ Pelisek, Christine (February 10, 2016). "Journalist Christine Chubbuck Threw Herself a Going Away Party Before Killing Herself on Live TV, Colleague Says" . People . Retrieved November 17, 2018 . ^ Pelisek, Christine (February 10, 2016). "Colleagues Recall Shock and Horror After Journalist Committed Suicide on Live TV: 'I Didn't See the Gun' . People . Retrieved November 17, 2018 . ^ Pelisek, Christine (February 11, 2016). "Brother of TV Journalist Christine Chubbuck Who Shot Herself on Air: 'She Never Felt Like She Was Good Enough' . People . Retrieved November 17, 2018 . ^ "WBTV's Cussed, Discussed News Theme Gets Overhaul". The Charlotte Observer ^ Young, Bill. "Monty Python: 1969-2014 ". Tellyspotting: Your Brit TV Pub. KERA. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
^ McCall, Douglas (2014). Monty Python: a chronology, 1969-2012 (Second ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 36. ISBN 0-7864-7811X
