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50 Years ago today

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dagrudt

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50 Years ago today Nov. 25th on CBS Radio, the day after Thanksgiving, between 12:30 and 2 PM ET - The Couple Next Door, The Right to Happiness, Whispering Streets, Ma Perkins, Young Dr. Malone and The Second Mrs. Burton aired for the final time. Most CBS stations in the east and mid-west went to local programming. On the west coast, where the soaps aired in the morning, Arthur Godfrey, House Party, Garry Moore and Bing and Rosemary were switched from afternoons to the morning.
 
NBC, ABC and Mutual had already discontinued long-form, scripted programming three or four years earlier. CBS affiliates tended to be "full service" stations doing block programming (or variety). They had stayed with the soaps and they continued with Godfrey, Linkletter and other remaining Old Time Radio shows (and a few hold-over dramas on weekends) for the next few years (in Godfrey's case, until the early 70s.).

This was a Friday. On Monday, CBS Radio started 10 minute on the hour news broadcasts plus Dimension, a five minute feature or news analysis by CBS correspondents, Dear Abby and others. At about this time, CBS also introduced Net-Alert, a touch-tone type device that allowed the network to break into local station programming for bulletins or other special coverage.
 
MattParker said:
NBC, ABC and Mutual had already discontinued long-form, scripted programming three or four years earlier. CBS affiliates tended to be "full service" stations doing block programming (or variety). They had stayed with the soaps and they continued with Godfrey, Linkletter and other remaining Old Time Radio shows (and a few hold-over dramas on weekends) for the next few years (in Godfrey's case, until the early 70s.).
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Art Linkletter, his "Link's Little Ones" stayed on the air well into the 70's but didn't ABC get him by then? Reason I ask a few months ago I had visited a flea market in Strasburg, VA only to find a sign advertising Art Linkletter's radio program Links Little Ones on WINC-AM 1400 In Winchester, Virginia with the slogan "..WINC....The sound of Winchester..more in 74 !!" Of course that meant 1974.

WINC was an ABC affiliate in those days as I can remember Howard Cosell's sports show right next to Art.
 
The kids were a segment on House Party on CBS (Radio and Television). House Party went off in 1969 and Linkletter did an additional season with a similar show on NBC. Linkletter owned the rights to his shows and edited versions of his interviews with kids were sold as a syndicated feature directly to stations (this may be the show you remember). In the late 60s, Linkletter's daughter, Diane (who died of an apparent suicide) did a five minute feature for one of ABC's radio networks.
 
"I wonder how many stations carried those shows at that point. Couldn't have been too many."

It varied all over the lot. IIRC, WCBS inn New York, as net flagship, still carried the full schedule, originating a lot of it. So did most of the other CBS O&Os. Local stations were gradually easing away. In upstate NY, WBEN in Buffalo was running mostly local news and MOR music programming by then, while WHEC in Rochester stayed with the soaps until the end.
 
MattParker said:
The kids were a segment on House Party on CBS (Radio and Television). House Party went off in 1969 and Linkletter did an additional season with a similar show on NBC. Linkletter owned the rights to his shows and edited versions of his interviews with kids were sold as a syndicated feature directly to stations (this may be the show you remember). In the late 60s, Linkletter's daughter, Diane (who died of an apparent suicide) did a five minute feature for one of ABC's radio networks.
CBS Radio cancelled the radio version of House Party in 1967.
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Bob1370 said:
"I wonder how many stations carried those shows at that point. Couldn't have been too many."

It varied all over the lot. IIRC, WCBS inn New York, as net flagship, still carried the full schedule, originating a lot of it. So did most of the other CBS O&Os. Local stations were gradually easing away. In upstate NY, WBEN in Buffalo was running mostly local news and MOR music programming by then, while WHEC in Rochester stayed with the soaps until the end.
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Linkletter's show was a television show and CBS Radio carried the audio. The program originated from Television City, not Columbia Square, CBS Radio's and KNX's LA headquarters. Godfrey's show was produced by the CBS Radio Network, not WCBS. WCBS had gone to an "all news" format in 1968 and there was some contention about having to break format to carry Godfrey.

The soaps were produced by CBS Radio in New York or LA, not at either KNX or WCBS. At the time the soaps ended the network was in the same building with the local station but a separate operation.
 
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