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Yeah, 1948 In San Francisco, newspaper headlines heralded televisions. Arrival was on December 22nd. The Kpi X Channel five became the pioneer television station for the western United States. Kpi s went right to the heart of the city with the station. Tower and transmitter were located at

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the top of the Mark Hopkins Hotel, a Knob hill with the station itself at one Nob Hill Circle. All the engineers worked to put the new equipment in readiness. Mhm. Yeah, the studio station personalities like Ruby Hunter were applying the traditional

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grease paint for the opening telecast. These talented performers would soon become household by words Ruby Hunter, Patty Pritchard and cooking expert Faye Stewart. Then, like William Winter of the News, Sandy Spellman, Captain Fortune and Dusty Dale, even famous bandleader Del Courtney turned in his baton to

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become television's first disc jockey, interviewing stage and screen luminaries such as Rudy Valli. Shortly after Kpi X went on the air, we went on location for a remote telecast of one of the first football games to be seen on television. Kpi X sent out a picture

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visible for 250 square miles. This early experience made it possible in 1951 for Kpi Extra microwave, the first nationwide live telecast. The event was the Japanese peace conference held in San Francisco. Tony Obama He's still with the staff of Kpi s Kpi excess. Early pioneering efforts

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were repeatedly honored here. Longtime area vice president and general manager Phillip Lasky accepts the Silver Emmy Award from David Crandall, local president of the Television Arts and Sciences. The award was for outstanding achievement in television for programs like Everybody's Doing It. Once upon a Time, Ruby

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Travel Air's Sheriff Pureed and Tele Trips. Mhm. Great privilege to be here. Thank you very much, sir Mayor El Marie Robinson of San Francisco. Now let's meet the journalists. I think all our present troubles, such as flickering pictures, sometimes due to weather, will be cleared up.

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We'll have color far more than we now have Colour in motion pictures. I think all these issues can movie stars and can sports be on television will be ironed out and we will have them in the homes. I don't think it will change the norm of

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life too much. I think we will adopt television like we did radio or automobiles or telephones and find good practical use for it. And I hope I'm around at that time to keep reporting. It may be from a wheelchair, but I hope to be there. We

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certainly hope so. Mr. Tom Foster of the San Francisco Shopping News. Your forecast. Well, I'm thinking of the fact that Kpi X is a pioneer television station of the Bay Area, and I think off to a good start. You're the first one to put up your

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own properties and have your own building your own studios. And I think that when that time capsule is opened that undoubtedly Kpi X will still be a leader in the television field. Thank you very much, sir. Mr. Foster Terrace O'Flaherty. What is your forecast? Well, Sandy,

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my main concern is probably with human nature. I hope that human beings will continue to improve at the same pace that the equipment, uh, will be improved. It goes in your fine building here. Uh, television will undoubtedly be a perfectly polished mirror that will reflect whatever

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is put in front of it. I hope that, uh, the things that are placed in front of it will be as perfect Has the equipment itself see you again next week on tele trips. Goodnight. Yeah,