Ksdk-tv Newschannel 5 history

According to University of Missouri-St Louis professor Michael D. Murray, Eschen filmed on-the-scene reports at a mine explosion in March 1947.

In 1951, KSD televised Senator Estes Kefauver’s Special Crime Subcommittee hearings held in St Louis.

It was under his watch that KSD had their first memorable broadcast events, including a report on arrests in the Bobby Greenlease kidnaping case in 1953, a report by John Roedel that went out over the NBC network.

Another long-running show that also began on weekday afternoons and finished up on Saturday mornings was hosted by “Corky the Clown” (Clif St James). Corky’s run began in 1954 and, like the Wranglers’ Club, featured cartoons and a studio audience.

The people who remember the deadly tornado that swept through St Louis in 1959 are dwindling, but a more recent memory were the series of tornadoes that roared through the area nearly six years ago.

After that, former Billiken and St Louis Hawk Ed Macauley was the face of the sports department, covering the Cardinals’ miracle run to a World Series title in 1964.

He had the distinction of detailing his own trade, from the Cardinals to San Francisco in 1967.

Randolph sent filmed reports from the 1972 Winter Olympics, reaching St Louis days afterward.

Weekday programming also went through a metamorphosis on KSD, and beyond when the station became KSDK in 1979.

A running joke of rushing out to buy bread, milk, eggs, and toilet paper with the prediction of snowfall may have gotten its start in 1982.

Mike Bush reported live outside the ballpark in Kansas City during the 1985 World Series when the Cardinals were only three outs away from winning the World Series.

When historic flooding occurred in 1993, the need for expanding coverage of the hardest-hit areas led to the addition of weekend morning newscasts.

Then the news broadcast day expanded with a noon broadcast, and in 1995, “Show Me St Louis” debuted in the mid-afternoon.

As St James explained in 1997, “If Corky was purple one day and green the next it didn’t matter – it was a clown show.