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Fireside theater skit dave12/2/2023 The premise was that the panelists were given a semi-comic topic and had to adlib a 'conversation' for a full minute without repeating themselves (and if you think a minute isn't all that long, try it yourself some time). One Minute Please (according to all my reference books, that's the correct title) was a late DuMont show. So for Tippy Stringer Huntley Conrad, that would count as double success.Ĭhannel 7's weatherman was Jackson Weaver, who went on to become the beloved early morning radio guy (with a longtime partner) in DC - this over and above his regular sideline as the voice of Smokey The Bear, a job he helf nearly all his adult life (he died in 1992). That marriage was also successful, lasting until Bill Conrad's death in 1994. Several years after that (1980, if I recall), Tippy Stringer Huntley became the third wife of the recently widowed William Conrad. They had a happy marriage, ending with Huntley's death in 1974. Several years after this, Tippy Stringer became the second wife of Chet Huntley. Channel 4's late weather show features Tippy Stringer. Scrolling down, I noticed a few things, which I'll share here: Of course, when you work in the Baltimore-Washington area, you get noticed-especially if you’re good. Ron Cochran, the newscaster on WTOP, becomes the anchor of the ABC evening news. newscaster, would eventually go to ABC as a correspondent. what do you want to bet that, at least once in a while, it was called “Small Talk”? And then there are the personalities that went on to national success: Jim Simpson, who does the sports on WTTG, was a superb and popular announcer on for many years at NBC and ESPN, particularly on football. Keeping the accent on the local, WMAL has a talk show hosted by Frank Small, Jr. It doesn’t even have to have its name in the title of the show I wonder if they paid for the privilege? I thought I’d include those this week, so you can see how prevalent it is. I don’t know why, but one of the things that always intrigues me in these issues from the mid-1950s is when a show’s sponsors is mentioned in the listings, as if it were a member of the cast or crew.
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