Help get Dave Lee into the Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Each year, the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting inducts a number of prominent veterans of the broadcast industry to the Hall of Fame. Past inductees have included Roger Awsumb (Casey Jones), Lynn Dwyer (Roundhouse Rodney), John Gallos (Clancy the Cop), Clellan Card (Axel) and many […]
Category: Dave Lee and Pete the Penguin
Dave Lee and Pete the Penguin – Christmas 1963
This photo appeared in TV Times, dated December 21, 1963. It was featured in an article called “Holiday Fare with Local Glare.” Christmas is especially for children — of all ages — and some shows are geared for the younger set. More than 100 children of employees of WTCN (11) will comprise the audience […]
Dave Lee’s Puppet Coloring Book
The Dave Lee Show – So Long It’s Been Good To Know You
Dave Lee in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Dave Lee is fondly remembered for Pete the Penguin and his many other puppets from his programs on WTCN and KMSP in the late 50’s and throughout the 60’s. But Dave Lee spent much of his early career in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was an announcer and broadcast journalist. Here’s a photo of Dave […]
Christmas on the Dave Lee Show
Kidsville Coloring Book
The Night Before Christmas special
This is an advertisement for a special program that aired on December 14, 1968. Dave Lee, along with Casey and Roundhouse, hosted a showing of The Night Before Christmas. The program is described as a “cartoon strip.” It’s not clear exactly what was. According to the listings in TV Digest for this day. the program […]
Dave Lee in TV Radio Mirror Sept 1961
Radio TV Mirror was a national magazine published by the McFadden Group that had local inserts specific to the region where the magazine was sold. Broadcasters from Minneapolis were featured regularly in magazines distributed throughout the Midwest. Popeye ‘N’ Pete had debuted on WTCN in April 1961 and as documented in this article, it quickly […]