Local Celebrities: WAS : [BC] TV weather

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In a message dated 02/09/2006 7:53:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
amfan at collins21e.com writes:

> I remember growing up in Kansas and the weatherman got up and did the 
> weather during the  noon news  then played the piano for 15 minutes to fill 
> out the half hour from noon to noon thirty.  Probably just as well.  Elmer 
> Childress was his name.  Wonder whatever happened to him on KARD-TV-3 
Wichita.
>   How could anyone forget.

Wow... that just brought-back a long-forgotten memory...

When I was home sick from school (2'nd or 3'rd grade, 1968/9) I was watching 
channel 13, (PBS out of NY/NJ) waiting for Sesame Street to come on. They had 
apparently pointed a camera at a mechanical "digital" clock, which turned its 
numbers like an odometer. It said "Time remaining until Sesame Street" above 
it, with one of the character puppets (a stuffed toy) sitting near it. For 
audio, there was some wierd song that went "Don't push me, push me, push me... 
don't push me, push me dowwwwnnn..."

Talk about rivetting programming! ;)

Willie...