Retro: Birmingham Monday 1/16/50

[Charles1]

Source: Birmingham News, 1/16/50, courtesy of www.birminghamrewound.com

Note: all listings are verbatim from the newspaper, so I’m not sure of any of the particulars

WBRC-4 (NBC/Dumont, now Fox on Channel 6)
3:00 Test Pattern and Miscellaneous Pictures
6:00 Kukla, Fran and Ollie
6:30 Robert Quinland and Guest Stars
6:45 INS News Pictures, both national and international
7:00 Tele-Theater, dramatic production
7:30 Plainclothes Man, mystery drama
8:00 Hunting and Fishing
8:15 Selected Short Subjects
9:00 Sign Off


WAFM-13 (CBS/ABC, now NBC affiliate WVTM)
12:00 Test Pattern and Tone
12:20 News and Pictures
12:30 Multiscope News and Music
1:00 Telenews
1:15 Test Pattern and Tone
2:00 Sign Off
6:00 Test Pattern and Tone
6:30 Multiscope News and Music
6:35 News and Pictures
6:45 Paradise Island, Danny O’Neill
7:00 Lucky Pup (CBS-TV)
7:15 Adventure Time
7:30 Mr. I. Magination (CBS-TV)
8:00 Pantomine Quiz
8:20 Ball
8:30 Wrestling Matches
10:00 Sign-Off

 

[bpatrick]

This is obviously before the coaxial cable was extended south
from Richmond, since there are few network shows on either
station's schedule that day. I do notice a couple of things airing
in pattern: Kukla, Fran and Ollie, followed by Roberta Quinlan's 15-
minute musical show on NBC, likewise Chevrolet Tele-Theater, but
I wonder if these are kinescopes. IIRC, the cable connection was
extended south to Greensboro, Charlotte, and Atlanta around October
1; did Birmingham get a cable connection sooner?

 

[oburn]

birmingham went on the cable sept 30 1950 those were likely kines notice plainclothesman a dumont tv network show

 

[bpatrick]

If anyone wants to know what the networks had on a Monday in
the winter of 1950, here are the schedules, from Castleman and
Podrazik's "The TV Schedule Book." Times are Eastern.

ABC no programming

CBS 4 PM Homemaker's Exchange
4:30 Vanity Fair
5 PM Ted Steele Show
5:30 The Chuck Wagon
6:15 Life With Snarky Parker
6:30 Lucky Pup
6:45 Bob Howard Show (one of the first African-Americans
on network television, Howard was a 300-pound singer-
pianist nicknamed "The Jive Bomber")
7 PM Kirby Stone Quintet (later the Kirby Stone Four, they
did song parodies)
7:15 Paul Arnold (country-type singer not to be confused
with Eddy Arnold)
7:30 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
7:45 Alkali Ike (a ventriloquist's dummy)
8 PM Silver Theater
8:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
9 PM Candid Camera
9:30 The Goldbergs
10 PM Studio One
11 PM Warren Hull Show (he would go on to fame as host
of "Strike It Rich")
11:15 (Local)

DUMONT

10:45 Morning Chapel
11 AM Your Television Shopper
12 N Headline Clues
12:30 Rumpus Room (Johnny Olson)
1 PM Okay, Mother (Dennis James, the title comes from
the way he identified holds on wrestling shows, such
as, "Okay, mother, that's a hammerlock.")
1:30 Man On The Street
1:45 Margaret Johnson (I think this is her name, it's abbreviated...
she's a singer)
2 PM Shopper's Matinee
4 PM (Local)
6 PM Small Fry Club (Big Brother Bob Emery)
6:30 Magic Cottage
7 PM Captain Video
7:30 Manhattan Spotlight
7:45 Vincent Lopez (orchestra music)
8 PM Newsweek Views The News
8:30 Al Morgan Show (singer-pianist whose biggest hit was in
1948, titled "Jealous Heart")
9 PM Wrestling From Sunnyside Arena With Dennis James
11 PM (Local)

NBC 5:15 Judy Splinters (another puppet)
5:30 Howdy Doody
6 PM (Local)
7 PM Kukla, Fran And Ollie
7:30 Roberta Quinlan (another singer-pianist)
7:45 Camel News Caravan (John Cameron Swayze)
8 PM Chevrolet Tele-Theater
8:30 Voice Of Firestone
9 PM Lights Out
9:30 Robert Montgomery Presents/NBC Opera Theater
(Robert Montgomery was Elizabeth Montgomery's
father.)
10:30 Who Said That?
11 PM You Are An Artist (Jon Gnagy)
11:15 (Local)