\u201cThrough the Decades,\u201d<\/a> a one-hour weekday program hosted by Bill Kurtis, utilizing the archives of CBS News and \u201cEntertainment Tonight,\u201d among other sources. Joining Kurtis are correspondents Ellee Pai Hong and Kerry Sayers.<\/p>\nMonday\u2019s premiere edition will explore the Memorial Day holiday in American history, including the debut of \u201cStar Wars\u201d on this weekend in 1977 and the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 near O\u2019Hare Airport in 1979.<\/p>\n
Opening day programming also will present the anti-war movie musical \u201cHair\u201d along with the comedy series \u201cHogan\u2019s Heroes\u201d and the drama series \u201cThe Rat Patrol,\u201d delivering contrasting depictions of combat and patriotism in entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What better day to launch a television network that immerses viewers in the past than Memorial Day? Monday marks the debut of Decades, the new digital subchannel from CBS Television Stations and Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting. Each day\u2019s programming will focus on a different era or theme through vintage series, popular movies and historical news footage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7755,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions\/7755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}