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IT WAS APRIL 8th … when the original radio voice of ‘The Lone Ranger,’ Canadian Earl Graser, was killed in an auto accident at age 32 … When country singer Jimmy Dean began a morning show on CBS in what would be a futile effort to defeat NBC’s Today Show … When UK singer Petula Clark starred in her own NBC-TV prime time special, with guest Harry Belafonte (pictured) … and when the last original episode of ‘All in the Family’ aired on CBS-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

IT WAS APRIL 7th … when the first national rock and roll series, Alan Freed’s ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’, made its debut on the CBS Radio network… When San Francisco deejay Tom Donahue (pictured) turned KMPX-FM into what is considered to be America’s first alternative “free-form” radio station, playing non-commercial music by album-oriented bands… When Rickie Lee Jones was the musical guest on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, performing her soon-to-be smash hit “Chuck E’s In Love”… and when the 100th episode of “Married With Children” aired on Fox TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Maddow averaged 607,000 viewers among the age 25-54 demo, compared to 561,000 for O’Reilly as advertisers continue to distance themselves from the Fox News star amid sexual harassment claims.

Though people close to him praised him as a good guy and a devoted family man, Rickles gained fame for an acerbic, insult-filled brand of humour that spared no one — from regular Joes to U.S. presidents to the famously hot-tempered Frank Sinatra, who became one of his champions and a close friend.

IT WAS APRIL 6th .. when the comic strip ‘Little Orphan Annie’ came to life for the first time on NBC radio … When ‘This is Your FBI’ debuted as a weekly 30-minute drama on ABC radio .. When Swanson & sons introduced their frozen ‘TV Dinner’… When Bob Hope (pictured) hosted the 31st Annual Academy Awards that named ‘Gigi’ best picture… and when singers Peggy Lee & Tony Bennett, and comics Rodney Dangerfield & Joan Rivers headlined the Easter Sunday edition of CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

IT WAS APRIL 5th … when less than five months after the first NBC network broadcast from New York, the Pacific Coast-based NBC ‘Orange’ network aired its first programmming from temporary studios in San Francisco…. When 19-year old Barbra Streisand (pictured) made her first network television appearance on NBC’s late night “Jack Paar Show” with guest host Orson Bean… When the final episode of the original ‘Hawaii Five-0’ aired on CBS-TV… and when the FOX Broadcasting Company debuted coast-to-coast in the US with two Sunday night comedy shows, Married..With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

IT WAS APRIL 4th .. when Kate Smith began a new daily quarter-hour talk show in the noon hour at CBS radio… When the ill-fated CBC-FM Network signed on, with connected stations only in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal… When Johnny Carson quit The Tonight Show in a salary dispute with NBC. He returned three weeks later with an additional $30,000 a week!… and when, after six years, the final episode of the WWII prison camp sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” aired on CBS TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Several dozen other sponsors have now joined the carmakers in the advertising exodus.

"I would have really liked the first place our audience heard about that is to have been from us. On our show," GREENBERG told THE SPORTING NEWS. "Because it’s been a really special thing."