TUCSON, Ariz. — KGUN-TV has been informing and entertaining Southern Arizonans for more than 67 years.
"A big, big studio but in the center of the studio there's this big H. Ever go get your oil changed, and you get raised on one of those? He was figuring that this building would ultimately have another use if television didn't become a thing," says former General Manager Scott Vaughan.A fan of westerns, the new owner changed the call letters to KGUN-TV on March 14, 1957.
"Came out in front of the camera and for about two weeks my hands shook so hard that I would have to actually physically hold them. But everything was spur of the moment. Kids never knew what I was going to do, they just loved it." Like most kids in the audience, Housley Wolf was celebrating her birthday at the Marshall KGUN kiddie show in 1961.Housley Wolf:"I don't think the studio meant that much to me. I don't think I got that excited til I saw Marshall KGUN. Because he was like, you know, a star.""I don't think we could see the cartoons very well," Housley Wolf tells me."That disappointed me. I think they had a little screen.
Love Barrett's father and Jacobson—Marshall KGUN and Dr. Scar, as they were known to viewers—eventually became fishing buddies. The pair also routinely made public appearances together for KGUN.