ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist and medical doctor Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes spanning over 15 seasons. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. Television. "ER" follows the inner life of the emergency room (ER) of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and various critical issues faced by the room's physicians and staff. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history, also became the 2nd longest medical drama across the globe (behind BBC's "Casualty"). It won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations. "ER" won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, while the cast earned four Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Drama Series. As of 2014, "ER" has grossed over in television revenue.
KERA-TV
KERA-TV became one of the earliest educational television stations in the U.S. to establish a news department on February 16, 1970, when it premiered "Newsroom", a half-hour 6:00 p.m. newscast that aired Monday through Friday evenings, and was based on a similar program that aired on San Francisco PBS member station KQED. In October 1976, the program was relaunched as a half-hour prime time newscast under the title "The 9 O'Clock Report", predating the move of then-independent station KTVT's late evening newscast to the 9:00 p.m. timeslot in August 1990. Within months of the change, channel 13 moved its evening newscast two hours earlier to 7:00 p.m. on January 31, 1977 (with the move, the program was briefly retitled as "The 7 O'Clock Report", before becoming "13 Report" the following month). KERA shut down its news department on September 21, 1977.