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Los Angeles Prime Time Easter Sunday 1958

April 6, 1958, Los Angeles--lucky L.A.--SEVEN channels to choose from!
NOTE:The only Easter programming that day was in the daytime--KTTV (independent channel 11) telecast the Easter Sunrise Services at the Hollywood Bowl from 4:50am to 6:10am, then signed off until 11am! KNXT (CBS Channel 2) carried Easter Mass from Boston at 7am then an Episcopal service from the National Cathedral in Washington at 8am. KRCA (NBC Channel 4) aired a film at 9am called "The Easter Vigil". At 11 am came "Easter With the Stars" on KABC (ABC Channel 7) and independent KTTV telecast the Beverly Hills Easter Parade at 1pm. Then as now, Channels 2, 4 and 7 were owned by their respective networks
KTLA Channel 5 was owned by Gene Autry, KTTV Channel 11 by the Los Angeles Times newspaper,KCOP Channel 13 by The San Diego Union newspaper, KHJ Channel 9 by RKO General.


6:00 P.M.
2—Amos 'n' Andy
4—Meet -the Press: George V.
Allen
5—Bugs Bunny & .Friends
7—Annie Oakley. Gail Davis
9—Championship Bowling:
Ed Brosius vs. Glen Allison
Grant Holcomb calls the action

6:30
2—The 20th Century, Walter
Cronkite: "Victory Over
Polio"
4—Outlook, Chet Huntley:
.. "Chicago's 'Hillbillies' "
5—Polka Parade, Dick Sinclair
7—The Falcon, Chas. McGraw
11_Wallace Beery Movies:
"The Bugle Sounds,"
Marjorie Main, Lewis Stone
13—Heart of the City

7:00 P.M.
2—Lassie, Jon Provost
4—(Color) My Friend Flicka
7—What's the Name of That
Song?, Bill Gwinn
9—Holiday, USA, Austin
Green: "San Francisco"
13—Dan Smoot Reports:
"Double Standards"

7:15
13_Weekend Roundup, Dan Riss

7:30
2—Jack Benny Show,' with
Ronnie Burns
4—No Warning! "Emergency,"
Elisha Cook, Peggy
Webber
'5—Movie: " Jezebel,'' Bette
Davis, George Brent
7_Maverick, James Garner,
9—Preliminary Hearing:
Divorce, Dr. Paul Popenoe
13—Hi-Time, Joan Vohs:
"Cutting the Apron
Strings"

8:00 P. M.
2—Ed Sullivan Show, with
Maurice Chevalier, Guy
Lombardo, Conrad Hilton,
Betty Johnson,- Carol
Burnett, Chicago Opera
Ballet
4—(Color) Steve Allen Show
with Jane Powell, Orson
Welles ,Senor Wences,
Alan Dale, the Bay Bops
9—Movie: "The Fargo Kid,"
- Tim Holt
13—The Big Debate:
"Permanent PWA".

8:30
7—Adventure at Scott- Island
Barry Sullivan
Li—New Adventures of Martin
Kane, William Gargan
13—Dan Lundberg Show:'
"Do We Want the
Dodgers?"

. 9:00 P. M.
2—G-E Theater: "No Hiding
Place," Ronald Reagan,
Geraldine Page
4—(Color) Dinah Shore Show
with Ray Bolger, Jan
Clayton, McGuire Sisters
7—Sid Caesar' Invites You
9—Movie: "'Affair in Monte
Carlo," Merle Oberon
11 Movie: "The Vanishing
Virginian." Frank Morgar
Spring Byington
13—Rev. Oral Roberts

9:30
2—Alfred Hitchcock Presents
"Disappearing Trick,"
Robert Horton, Betsy Von
Furstenburg
5—Yesterday's Newsreels
7—You Asked for It, -Jack
Smith
13—Sunday Sing, Earl William

10:00 P.M.
2—$64,000 Challenge, -R. Story
4—Loretta Young Show:
"To Open a Door," Miss
Young, Tom Helmore
5—ByLine, Mark Stevens
7—I Spy,- Raymond Massey
13—Voice of Calvary

10:30
2—What's My Line, John Daly
4-Movie: "The Quiet Man,"
John Wayne, Maureen
O'Hara
5—Wanted, Walter McGraw
7_Movie: "The Guilty,"
Bonita Granville
9—Bowlathon (10:35)
13—O. L. Jaggers

10:45
11—Sunday News, Bill Welsh

11:00 P. M.
2-News Special. Bill Stout
4—Lee Giroux, -News
5—News; Your Income Tax
11—Sun. Sports,.Bill Welsh
 
A couple of things I noticed, and remember from my early childhood in 58 - Dan Smoot was one of a number of right-wing anti-communist types who had daily 15 minute commentary programs on the various LA independents. One of the others was Dr. Harold Fishman, who we all know today as grandfatherly news anchor Hal.

Bill Welsh who anchored the late news and sports on KTTV was Channel 11's sole anchor for their Rose Parade coverage for many years - at least into the late 70s.
 
ercjncpr said:
NOTE:The only Easter programming that day was in the daytime--KTTV (independent channel 11) telecast the Easter Sunrise Services at the Hollywood Bowl from 4:50am to 6:10am...

Wonder why the telecast (and service?) started so early. El Lay sunrise that day
was not until 0535 PST. (DST did not begin then until the last Sunday in April.)

Source: USNO sunrise/sunset tables (1958/Los Angeles, CA)--
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.html#notes
 
ercjncpr said:
KTLA Channel 5 was owned by Gene Autry

...not yet. Autry bought KTLA in 1964 (Tom Snyder worked in their news department at the time and told me everyone on the staff thought Autry was crazy for laying out the amount of money that he did). Before that, KTLA was owned by Paramount Pictures, and had carried kinescopes of DuMont network programming in the late '40s...
 
Ultimajock said:
ercjncpr said:
KTLA Channel 5 was owned by Gene Autry

...not yet. Autry bought KTLA in 1964 (Tom Snyder worked in their news department at the time and told me everyone on the staff thought Autry was crazy for laying out the amount of money that he did). Before that, KTLA was owned by Paramount Pictures, and had carried kinescopes of DuMont network programming in the late '40s...

I stand corrected and should have consulted the "KTLA at 45" documentary that I still have on VHS before posting. I was going by memory. Thank You! unfortunately, the forum system wont let me edit at this point. However, I have read from several sources that KTTV became the DuMont affilliate in the early 50s after William S Paley had to buy back Channel 2 in 1951. Channel 2 was allocated to CBS around 1945, but Paley sold it to Don Lee because he thought that TV was still years away from being of any commercial practicality. Oops!
 
Corky Marlowe said:
Were the Steve Allen & Dinah Shore shows normally broadcast in color at that time?

...I suspect Steve Allen had moved his show to Los Angeles by this time, thus he would have been a colorcast, albeit by videotape. Dinah Shore would definitely have been in color (I think L.A. productions were primarily color by this time while there were still some black&white items originating from New York)...
 
By the way, the source for my original posting was a cut and paste of a .pdf file from the radio-TV page of the Long Beach Independent-Press Telegram
 
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