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Indianapolis Television (Images of America)

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In 1949, when the first tv station in Indianapolis was once about to go on the air, R.K. Shull, the venerated tv columnist for the Indianapolis Times and Indianapolis News, said, “Channel 6 has laid plans for the biggest imaginable attention-grabbing debut a TV station could make in Indianapolis . . . live coverage of the Indianapolis 500-mile race.” Only three cameras covered all the track, but the audience at the time was once not very discriminating. Before networks had full-time programming, casts and crews experimented with the new medium in full view of the audience. Even after the networks began to monopolize programming, quite a lot of local personalities became viewer favorites. David Letterman determined to have fun with the weather. Jane Pauley refused to cut her long locks, so her entire face was once seldom seen on location in windy weather. George Willeford made fun of the movies he was once introducing. Frank Edwards had his dog sitting on his desk all the way through his newscast. Debbie Drake began her own day-to-day exercise show, which was once later nationally syndicated.

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