The LuLac Edition #4,190, December 26th, 2019

 MEDIA MATTERS

"TALKIN' NEPA"

Tune in to WYLN TV 35 later this month and into next when this blog editor and Ron Felton, President of the NAACP Wilkes-Barre branch #2306 talk about the observance of Martin Luther King Day on Friday January 17th. Host Paula Deigman of "Talkin' NEPA" leads the discussion.
Broadcast time are 12 noon Saturday the 28th, 12 noon, Sunday the 29th, 11:30am Monday and 5pm on the 30th. The show airs on Service Electric channel 514 and 7.

WALN TV

Hear and see the spirit of Christmas through January 7th om WALN TV #137 on Service Electric TV.

ECTV

Veteran Farm Network Broadcaster Dave Williams joins us for ECTV Live the week of December 30th to highlight activities and displays for the 2020 Pennsylvania Farm Show! Agriculture is still the State's number one industry and many of the exhibitors and competitors at the show hail from northeastern Pennsylvania. ECTV Live= is seen 3 times daily on Comcast channel 19 and on the electric city television YouTube page.

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

This week's show looks back on the top stories of 2019. Tune in Sunday morning at 6 on 94.3 The Talker; 6:30 on The Game, NEPA's Fox Sports Radio 1340/1400 am, 100.7 and 106.7 fm; and at 7:30 on The River 105 and 103.5.

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1969

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Twenty-six merchant marines were killed in the destruction of the American freighter SS Badger State, formerly the U.S. Navy transport ship USS Starlight, the SS Badger State was transporting ordnance for the U.S. Air Force, including bombs and rockets to be used in the Vietnam War.....The Joey Bishop Show, the ABC television network's late-night attempt to compete against The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on NBC, was telecast for the last time, a little more than two and a half years after its April 17, 1967, debut. As one commentator would note at the time, "The Joey Bishop Show was third in the ratings because of the number of ABC affiliates that didn't carry the program" Today (Titusville, FL), December 28, 1969. Bishop, who had deferred to guest hosts more often toward the end of the series, appeared for the opening monologue, thanked the audience and viewers, then left, leaving his sidekick, Regis Philbin, to host for the remainder of the 90 minutes. Here's video from one of the first, if not the first show.....

U.S. President Nixon signed the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 into law, setting the first nationwide standards for regulation of the coal industry and creating what is now called the Mine Safety and Health Administration.......

Joseph "Jock" Yablonski, a candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, was murdered along with his wife and his 25-year old daughter by a trio of hitmen who invaded his home in Clarksville, Pennsylvania. The three bodies were not discovered until five days later, when all three were found shot to death in their beds.The murders would be traced to the man whom Yablonski was challenging, UMWA President Tony Boyle.....

The Dick Cavett Show, the ABC television network's second attempt at a late night talk show to compete against NBC's Johnny Carson, premiered at 11:30 Eastern time.  Replacing The Joey Bishop Show, Cavett's program originated from New York City and would run for five years, lasting until the end of 1974. In his opening monologue, he introduced himself to viewers as "funnier than Chet Huntley, taller than Mickey Rooney, and as pure and honest as Newark, New Jersey". His first guest was actor Woody Allen, followed by Robert Shaw, opera star Beverly Sills and Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, the president of New York City's Hunter College and fifty years ago this week the n umber one song in LuLac land and America was "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" by B.J. Thomas.

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