After serving a tour of duty in Korea, along with his brother Deno, Chris returned to work full-time at the radio station.

But in 1955, television was taking off and attracting talented people away from radio including Chris who accepted a position as director for station WMIN-TV in St. Paul.

WMIN was only on the air for two hours a day because they had to share a broadcast frequency with a competing station in Minneapolis.

This confusing situation was solved when the stations merged to become WTCN - TV (channel 11).

Chris was responsible for directing religious programs, movie inserts and farm reports.

A director's job is to make sure everything behind and in front of the camera happens on cue. In the days of live T.V. this was a challenging job.

It didn't take long, however, for Chris, being who he is, to end up in front of the camera. A lot of the stations' programming was aimed at children and Chris turned out to be a natural at entertaining kids.

And once he got in front of the camera, television would never be the same.