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Encinitas Store Providing 1950s Clothing for Channel 6’s 60th Anniversary Telecast
TV anchors will wear 1950s clothes from Encinitas.
Flashbacks Recycled Fashion, 576 S Coast Highway 101, Encinitas, http://encinitas.patch.com/listings/flashbacks-recycled-fashion, will provide TV anchors at XETV-TV/San Diego 6 with vintage clothing for Channel 6’s special 60th anniversary telecast on Monday morning, April 29, the TV station said.
XETV-TV/San Diego 6 is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. Channel 6 first appeared on the local airways on April 29, 1953. So, since Channel 6 began airing on April 29, 1953, the station is planning a special telecast on its morning news show, “Wake Up San Diego,” this Monday, April 29.
On-air personalities, including anchors Marc Bailey and Lynda Martin, weathercaster Kimi Evans, reporter Kristen Mosteller and field reporter Ruben Galvan, will be outfitted in vintage 1950s fashions from Flashbacks. Bailey also will be sporting Walter Cronkite-style big black-frame eyeglasses. One of the segments will air in black and white. City Council President Todd Gloria and County Board of Supervisor Chairman Greg Cox are scheduled to appear in-studio to proclaim April 29 as “Channel 6 Day.”
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XETV was the second TV station to serve San Diego. After KFMB-TV went on the air in 1949, XETV-TV arrived on April 1953, followed by KGTV-TV (then KFSD) in September 1953.
“From our days as an ABC affiliate, an independent, a Fox affiliate and now a proud affiliate of the CW network, if you grew up in San Diego, then you grew up with Channel 6,” said Chuck Dunning, Channel 6 VP and GM. “When we went on the air, there were about 700,000 people living in the county, the Padres played in a stadium at the foot of Broadway, Mission Bay was transforming from swampland and there were more cows than people in Mission Valley.”
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Dunning is hoping to reach hundreds of former employees so they can be honored at San Diego 6’s 60th anniversary party and employee reunion from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at the XETV studios, 8253 Ronson Road, San Diego.
“If you worked here or knew someone who worked here, come on back, bring the family, take a tour and enjoy music, food, drinks and memories,” Dunning said. “This is a very special time for us. We want to share this milestone with our past and current employees.”
Viewers also are encouraged to send old photos, favorite memories and videos to 60Years@SanDiego6.com.
