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Looking for a Detroit scheduel

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mbayus

Does anyone have a Detroit retro scheduel from sometime in 1959 or 1960 that you could post that would include Jingles in Boofland. I remember coming home from school in about 1960 and insisting on tuning the TV to Channel 9 and hearing the program through the static, unless the skip was good that day. We lived in flint, and we couldn't get channel 9 very good most of the time. I have told my sister and brother about this, but they don't believe me and they think I made it up. I was born in 1952, my brother in 1957 and my sister in 1958. I also remember at the end of the program befoore Jingles in Boofland, there was an ID that said, "This is the NTA Film Network." Was this a movie, or a show? I'll look forward to seeing the scheduel.
 
MattParker said:
Jingles was a local live show produced at CKLW-TV. Before that, the show was local in Indianapolis. It ran for one hour weekday afternoons on CKLW-TV.

http://www.detroitkidshow.com/Boof.htm
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What station was he on in Indy, and when? I don't remember this show at all, nor can I find any info about Larry Booth having been on TV in Indianapolis. Are you sure you aren't thinking about WTTV's Ruffles the Clown, which was on at around the same time?
 
Thanks for the link. The only problem is, as a person who is totally blind, I can't see the graphics. A talking Screen Reader that a blind person uses, can only convert text to speech, therefore a picture is not meaningful. Even tho most all of the posters on this board, or for that matter on this web site will get something out of the CKLW add at the link that was posted, I would have to have a sighted person look at the add and read it to me. I would still like to read a schedule from the time period.
My birthday is March the 12th. I don't know if that was a week day in 1960, but that was the day I turned 8 years old, and I bet I watched (listened) to the program that day if it was. Thanks in advance.
 
Michael,
The ad listed all of the local shows that CKLW-TV was showing in January 1961. It had Romper Room at 11:00 am, followed by Mary Morgan on Monday and Tuesday and Myrt and Doris on Wednesday and Friday, Bill kennedy Showtime at 1:00 pm, Jingles in Boofland at 5:00-5:30 pm, Jac LeGoff News at 5:50, Captain Jolly at 6:00 Monday thru Friday and Poopdeck Paul on Saturday and Sunday at 6:00. I'm not sure what was on from 5:30-5:50pm. At that time channel 9 had 66 local programs with live talent produced every week.
 
NTA (National TeleFilm Associates) was a syndicator of first-run programs in the late 50s and early 60s. Programs were distributed on film to stations. In Detroit, CKLW-TV and the other stations bought programs from NTA. NTA was partly owned by 20th Century Fox and one of their more successful shows was a TV version of the Fox movie "How to Marry a Millionaire" (in which Barbara Eden took over the role played by Marilyn Monroe in the movie). Their main competitor in producing first-run shows to sell directly to local stations was Ziv (Highway Patrol, Sea Hunt). NTA did make an attempt to position themselves a "network" by asking local stations to program a designated line-up of their shows on Friday nights (most stations did not go along). WNTA for a time owned channel 13 in Newark-New York, which was sold off to become a public television station when NTA was going under. CKLW-TV had a lot of open time to fill since most CBC programs also seen on US networks were "blacked out" for channel 9. Even so, many of the first-run syndicated shows ended up on Detroit affiliates of the Big 3 networks, especially WJBK-TV2. WJBK (Storer Broadcasting) was quick to replace weaker CBS shows with local or syndicated shows, in which they could sell spots at local ad rates (and make more money than they could carrying network shows in the time spot). CKLW-TV, like other RKO-General stations, ran movies in prime-time to fill out their schedule rather than first run syndicated shows.
 
Thanks for all the info guys, it is very helpfull. And, Thanks Toledo eleven for telling me what is in the CKLW add.
 
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