Just to fill in an important gap in the obituary timeline.
KECA-TV (which became KABC-TV in 1953) commenced broadcasting in mid-September, 1949.  Four engineers (I was one) were transferred from radio.  Others were hired away from other local stations.  Since KECA-TV was the last owned and operated ABC station to go on the air, several supervisory employees were imported from ABC O & O’s that had been on the air for 6 to 12 months.  Charles Coleman from WBKB-TV in Chicago was the technical director for all of the early ABC network shows emanating from the Prospect and Talmadge studios, such as “Let there Be Stars”, “The Ruggles”, and “Mysteries of Chinatown.”  I believe he returned to Chicago in the early fall of 1950. Don Mc

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