"House Party" (Was: Re: In case you're interested: Des Moines Dec. 62 listings)
B. Patrick notes:
> "Art Linkletter's House Party".......
> aired at different times of the day on CBS radio
> and television. The radio version was on from 1945
> to 1967; the television version, 1952-69 (and then on
> NBC in a slightly different, more issue-oriented, format,
> called Life With Linkletter, from December 1969-September
> 1970).
The TV and radio versions were never simulcast.
When the TV version began in 1952, the soundtrack was taped and played back on CBS Radio immediately after the TV broadcast (at least on the East Coast).
Around 1959, the radio version moved to 11:05 or 11:10 A.M. ET. For a while, it was an edited audio tape of the previous day's live telecast (or on Mondays, the show seen live on TV the previous Friday).
When the television version swithed to videotape (I believe it was the early 1960's), the edited audio tape of the show aired a few hours before the television version did. Thus, for the last few years it was on both radio and TV, one could hear about two-thirds (or a little more) of each day's "House Party" show on radio three and a half hours (in most areas) before the TV version was broadcast.
Another note to bring this back to retro TV: Didn't "House Party" in September of 1965 become the first weekday daytime show on CBS television to be broadcast in color (apart from a handful of occassional colorcasts of some daytime shows back in the mid-fifties)??