On January 18, 2007 friends and family gathered at The Other Place at Fisher’s Landing to celebrate the 70th birthday of Smokey Knowlton, a legend of sorts on the lower Colorado River. Officially Robert V. Knowlton, “Smokey†is well known in the Yuma area from over 50 years of boating activities on the Colorado River. Many “Smokey†stories were told on this memorable afternoon stretching into the night.Â
Archive for the ‘Yuma Entertainment’ Category
Smokey Knowlton – A Living Legend!
Friday, January 19th, 2007Yuma gets ABC affiliate! Yuma viewers loose again!
Thursday, December 28th, 2006Beginning on January 1st of 2007, KECY (9) will start broadcasting ABC programming to DTV equipped televisions on digital sub channel 9.2, calling itself ABC 5. This follows KSWT’s (13) move to programming on digital sub channel 13.2 of the CW network. Time Warner subscribers will find these programs on channels 5 and 6 respectively. Satellite subscribers will find themselves blacked out from ABC and CW programming along with CBS, NBC, and FOX due to FCC restrictions against carrying programming available over the air in local markets.
Professional Baseball comes to Yuma in the Winter!
Monday, December 25th, 2006The Golden Baseball League have announced the creation of a new instructional league, the Arizona Winter League to be based in Yuma Arizona. The 44 regular season games and championship game will all be played at Yuma’s Ray Kroc Complex and Desert Sun Stadium in January and February of 2007. The Arizona Winter League will field 4 teams including the Yuma Scorpions, the Sonora Surf Dawgs, the Canada Miners, and the Snow Falcons. Each 25 player team will have a manager drawn from the Golden Baseball Leagues roster of professional managers.
Yuma Television
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006There has been a new series of commercials on TV lately for a cellular phone company. The hook is that the audio keeps dropping off to simulate a dropped call. The problem was I listened to these commercials several times before I realized that it was the commercial intentionally loosing sound and not the TV station with yet another interruption in their signal. I have watched TV in many large and small markets throughout the United States and Yuma seems to have one of the worst quality standards I have seen.Â