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John rovick biography
John Rovick, 'Sheriff John' of early Los Angeles TV fame, dies at 93
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John Rovick died yesterday in Idaho at the age of 93.
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Sheriff john rovick biography
If you grew up in Los Angeles more than 40 years ago, you know this name: Sheriff John. That was John Rovick’s alter ego – much to the delight of kids in the early days of L.A. television.
Long before the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, TV programming for children in L.A.
was handled mostly by local stations. The exception, of course, was "Captain Kangaroo" on CBS, which endured as early morning children's entertainment into the 1980s:
But midday and after-school shows for kids were usually for local stations, and that was certainly true in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s.
KHJ/Channel 9 had Engi