Celebrating 50 Years
1958
On May 1, KNME-TV signs on with a broadcast of UNM professor Edith Buchanan's freshman English class. The educational television station operates from a converted sorority house that later becomes the home of UNM's Speech and Communications Department.
1959
UNM head football coach Mary Levy appears on LOBO LAIR with UNM sports information director George McFadden.
UNM theatre arts professor Gene Yell directs the live presentation "Puss in Boots," featuring UNM theatre students.
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Through the Decades
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1958
On May 1, KNME-TV signs on with a broadcast of UNM professor Edith Buchanan’s freshman English class. The station operates from a converted sorority house that later becomes the home of UNM’s Speech and Communications Department.
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1962
Joyce Marron, host of KNME-TV’s TV KINDERGARTEN, is awarded McCall Magazine’s Golden Mike Award for Outstanding Achievement by a woman broadcaster.
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1976
The MacNeil/Lehrer Report with co-anchors Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer is distributed nationally for the first time.
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1983
READING RAINBOW premieres with host LeVar Burton.
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1992
SURVIVING COLUMBUS, the story of the Pueblo people’s 450-year struggle for survival, is broadcast nationally on PBS on Columbus Day.
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2000
Gwen Ifill took over as moderator of Washington week, and the name was shortened to Washington week.
