I recently spent a day researching Twin Cities kids shows at the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. I’ve been trying to document exactly when these show started and ended. You’ll find a lot of those results posted on the Timeline page. And while digging through stacks of old TV Guides, I stumbled on a blurb about […]
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Jimmy Valentine and Jimmy’s Junior Jamboree
On May 8, 1948, the first children’s television show in the Twin Cities aired on KSTP-TV, Channel 5. It was a quiz show for kids that had originated on radio called Riddle Griddle, emceed by KSTP announcer Jimmy Valentine. In an early version of the show, a panel of three children would try to answer […]