In 1979, This Old House, starring Bob Vila, premiered on PBS and started the DIY television revolution.

The show also had a number of " correspondents " who do short segments on specific issues ; Martha Stewart ( until not long after the aforementioned segment with Jane Clayson ), Martha Quinn, Bobby Flay, and Bob Vila, among others, have been featured in this role.

Impressed by Abram's small scrap pile and efficient work habits, Morash invited Abram to help with the renovation of a rundown Victorian house in Boston's historic Dorchester section, with a WGBH camera crew recording the process for the first This Old House project with host Bob Vila.

Robert Joseph " Bob " Vila ( b. June 20, 1946 ) is an American home improvement television show host known for This Old House ( 1979 – 1989 ), Bob Vila's Home Again ( 1990 – 2005 ), and Bob Vila ( 2005 – 2007 ).

* Bob Vila, former host of This Old House.

Only the episodes with original host Bob Vila aired under that name.

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Home improvement was popularized on television in 1979 with the premiere of This Old House starring Bob Vila on PBS.

Some examples involved a fictional congressional hearing where the witness ( the victim ) is being informed he is subject to criminal penalties while the chairman of the committee ( the antagonist ) has saved money on his car insurance, a home repair show reminiscent of Bob Vila showing a victim couple with a home badly in need of repair, a fictional news report on a volcanic eruption, and a fictional hair restoration commercial.

Tim's rival is real-life home improvement specialist Bob Vila, who made a few guest appearances on the show.

* Tim's attempts to upstage Bob Vila.

* Bob Vila, Bob Vila's Home Again

He was cast to replace Bob Vila and hosted the show from 1989 through 2003.

* Vila, Bob.

Speakers included several members of Engelbart's original Augmentation Research Center ( ARC ) team including Don Andrews, Bill Paxton, Bill English, and Jeff Rulifson, Engelbart's chief government sponsor Bob Taylor, and other pioneers of interactive computing, including Andy van Dam and Alan Kay.

However, in the original article on Young from the first edition of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and a subsequent article in the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide, critic Dave Marsh used this album to accuse Young of deliberately manufacturing a self-mythology, arguing that while his highlights could be seen to place him on a level with other artists from his generation like Bob Dylan or The Beatles, the particulars of his catalogue did not bear this out.

The original Gopher system was released in late spring of 1991 by Mark McCahill, Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Lindner, Daniel Torrey, and Bob Alberti of the University of Minnesota.

Along the way, McGuinn's original album concept was jettisoned in favor of a fully fledged country project, which included Parsons ' songs such as " One Hundred Years from Now " and " Hickory Wind ", along with compositions by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and others.

Bill Virdon was fired as manager and replaced by original Colt. 45 Bob Lillis.

Many of the original cast of Saturday Night Live came from The Second City and the franchise has produced such comedy stars as Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Bob Odenkirk, Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Eugene Levy, Steve Carell, Chris Farley, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

Historically, IP was the connectionless datagram service in the original Transmission Control Program introduced by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1974, the other being the connection-oriented Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP ).

The original lineup included Kenny Olson on lead guitar, Uncle Kracker on turntables, Andy Gould and George Metropolous on guitar, Paul Anthony on bass and Bob Ebeling on drums.

Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".

The original idea of X emerged at MIT in 1984 as a collaboration between Jim Gettys ( of Project Athena ) and Bob Scheifler ( of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science ).

Chief astronaut Deke Slayton wrote that he wanted one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts to be the first on the moon and, " Had Gus been alive, as a Mercury astronaut he would have taken the step ... My first choice would have been Gus, which both Chris Kraft and Bob Gilruth seconded.

Bob Hallett of the Canadian folk rock group Great Big Sea is also a renowned performer of the tin whistle, playing it in arrangements of both traditional and original material.

The album's first single, " Deadly Handsome Man " was a song featured on the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back movie soundtrack a few years earlier under its original title, " The Devil's Song ".

Bob Eubanks returned as a panelist and was joined by hosts Monty Hall and Tom Kennedy, frequent Gong Show contributors Jaye P. Morgan and Jamie Farr ( who shared a square ), original Hollywood Squares regular Rose Marie, and frequent game show panel members Betty White, Jo Anne Worley, and Nipsey Russell, who performed a poem in his guise of " The Poet Laureate of Television ".

The second and most famous theme was composed by William Loose: " Bob & Merrill's Theme ", named for Bob Quigley and Merrill Heatter, the show's creators and original co-executive producers.

The New York Times postulated that " the cartoonist Bob Montana inked the original likenesses of Archie and his pals and plopped them in an idyllic Midwestern community named Riverdale because Mr. Goldwater, a New Yorker, had fond memories of time spent in Hiawatha, Kan ."

Many of " Weird Al " Yankovic's original songs are pastiches: for example, " Dare to Be Stupid " is a Devo pastiche, and " Bob " from the album Poodle Hat is a pastiche of Bob Dylan.

Drummer Jerry Peloquin and acoustic bassist Bob Harvey completed the original lineup.

Pennebaker and Tour Road Manager Bob Neuwirth, an alternate version on the video for " Subterranean Homesick Blues ", the original companion book edited by D. A.

He and incoming Vice President Bob Boden began the biggest original programming venture since the network's inception, launching Whammy!

In 1966 Woody Gelman discovered many of the original Little Nemo strips at a cartoon studio where Bob McCay, Winsor's son, had worked.

Bob and Dennis decided to publish this version and corrections to the original design documents in a newsletter dedicated to Tiny BASIC, which they called " Dr. Dobb's Journal of Tiny BASIC Calisthenics and Orthodontia ".

The original show followed the friendship of two working class young men, Terry Collier ( James Bolam ) and Bob Ferris ( Rodney Bewes ), in Newcastle upon Tyne in the mid 1960s.

* Buffalo Bob Smith ( 1917 – 1998 ), host of the children's show Howdy Doody

Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

* 1954 – Bob Goen, American television host

* 1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host

* 1953 – Bob Hilton, American game show host and announcer

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In 1983, a year before Limbaugh debuted as a political talk-show host, anarchist Bob Black wrote an essay called " Feminism as Fascism ".

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While Lampley was busy covering the trophy presentation, Bob Costas ( who also interviewed Dallas head coach Jimmy Johnson and Dallas owner / general manager Jerry Jones together prior to the game ) covered for Lampley at the host and anaylsts ' desk ( and signed off the broadcast for NBC ).

** Bob Hilton, American game show announcer and host

** Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's television host ( b. 1917 )

* December 31 – Bob Barker makes his TV debut as host of the game show Truth or Consequences.

** Bob Saget, American actor and television host

** Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host ( d. 2003 )

* April 21 – Take It or Leave It makes it debut on CBS Radio, with Bob Hawk as host.

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* June 27 – Bob Keeshan, American actor and children's television show host ( d. 2004 )

:# The first host ( Alice ) sends the second host ( Bob ) a " synchronize " ( SYN ) message, which Bob receives.

Bob Akamian served as studio host until halfway through the 2010 – 2011 season, when the team hired away Adam Bjaranson from their over-the-air TV partner, KGW, and former Trail Blazers ' player Michael Holton is the studio analyst.

The host of the radio pre-and post-game shows is Mark Wyant and Bob McElligott.

Newport plays host to a number of festivals during the summer months, including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Sunset Music Festival, the Newport Folk Festival ( where Bob Dylan infamously " went electric " in 1965 ), the Newport International Film Festival, and the Newport International Boat Show.

MonsterVision eventually found a permanent host in cult personality and drive-in movie aficionado Joe Bob Briggs.