One of the Valley's earliest and most popular television personalities welcomes you to relive the days when KPHO signed on the air from a hotel and Wallace, Ladmo, Gerald, Aunt Maud and Ladmo Bags were all the local rage.
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After KPHO signed on the air in 1949, it became the local affiliate for all four networks in operation at the time -- CBS, NBC, ABC and The Dumont Network.
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The labors of hard working engineers combined with all the skills of station personnel enabled the first signals to travel up the tower atop the studios at Hotel Westward Ho in 1949.
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The first programs created by KPHO were directed at children and included "The Man From Planet X," "The Lew King Show," and of course the many evolutions of "The Wallace and Ladmo Show."
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KPHO-TV Channel 5 in Phoenix signed on as the first television station in the market on Sunday, Dec. 4, 1949. The first signal was transmitted from the Hotel Westward Ho in downtown Phoenix.
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Wearing a beanie and armed with cartoons, "Wallace" burst onto the scene with his own show "It's Wallace" in 1955 and went on to create and sustain the longest-running children's TV show in America.
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Ladmo in his youth had his eyes set on becoming a major league baseball player until one day in 1956 "Wallace" came along and the rest is history!
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With a Midwestern upbringing under his belt, Pat moved to Phoenix after the Army, landed a "jack-of-trades" job at KPHO, and was soon snatched away by "Wallace."
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