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Retro: Boston, Sunday, Jan. 13, 1952

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Source: Lowell (Mass.) Sun

WBZ-TV 4 (NBC)
AM
9:35 Test Pattern
10 TBA
10.30 Mr. Wizard
11 Our Believing World (with Richard V. McCann)
11:30 Morning Mosaic
PM
12 Magic Clown
12:15 TBA
12.30 Back Porch Experts (Jerry O’Leary)
1 Auditions (Gene Jones)
1:30 TBA
2 Gov. Dover reports on Education In the Commonwealth.
2:30 American Forum of the Air
3 Fairmeadows U.S.A.
3.30 Sarah Churchill Television Playhouse.
4 Meet the Press
4:30 Juvenile Jury
5 Zoo Parade
5:30 Sound-Off Time (Fred Allen)
6 TBA
6.30 Crusade In Pncific: “At Japan’s Doorstep”
7 The Range Rider
7.30 Young Mr. Robbin
8 Colgate Comedy Hour (Abbott & Costello, Errol Flynn, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Cabot)
9 Television Playhouse.
10 Red Skelton
10:30 The Little Theatre: "Return to Vienna”
11 T-Men In Action
11:30— Assembly VI.
12M News Review Of The Week
12:15 Views of News in New England
12:20 Signoff

WNAC-TV 7 (CBS)
AM
10:45 Test Pattern
11:15 Film Shorts
11:30 Flying Tigerrs
PM
12 Ranger Joe
12:15 Film Shorts
12:30 What’s My Line (John Daly with Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis and Hal Block)
1 Pentagon Washington
1:30 Film Shorts
2 Itchy and Scratchy (children’s animal film)
2:30 The Big Question (Charles Collingwood with guests on President Truman’s State of the Union address)
3 Quiz Kids (Joe Kelly with Melvin Miles, Harvey Dytch, Frankie Vander Bloeg and guest Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson)
3:30 See It Now
4 Cosmopolitan Theater: “A Red Rose For Christmas”
5 Super Circus
6 The Plainclothesman
6:30 Name’s The Same (Robert Q. Lewis)
7 Gene Autry
7:30 This Is Show Business
8 Toast Of The Town (Ed Sullvan’s guests: Rudy Vallee, Harry Richman, Hal LeRoy, Peggy Lee, Smith and Dale, Richard Hayes, Horace McMahon, Helen Wood, Betty Bruce, George White; sketches of several editions of “George White’s Scandals”)
9 Fred Waring
9:30 Break the Bank (Bert Parks)
10 Celebrity Time (Guests: Mindy Carson and Bert Wheeler)
10:30 Television Theater: “Blond Savage”
12M Weather Service
12:05 Camera Caravan of Sports Preview
12:06 Tomorrow’s Programs; Signoff
 
3 Quiz Kids (Joe Kelly with Melvin Miles, Harvey Dytch, Frankie Vander Bloeg and guest Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson)

What's the deal with Illinois governors and television? Are they all media hounds? At least this one didn't go to prison!
 
"What's the deal with Illinois governors and television? Are they all media hounds?"

They are if they want to be President.

Adlai Stevenson was mounting his first Presidential campaign in 1952; he got the Democratic nomination (and got beaten by Eisenhower that fall). He was nothing if not persistent; he ran again in '56, got the nomination again, and lost to Ike again. He wanted to try again in 1960 thinking the third time might be a charm (after all, Ike couldn't run any more, so he might have a chance) but Jack Kennedy beat him for the nomination and won the election---and as we know, JFK was way more media savvy, choosing programs like Meet the Press and the Tonight Show with Jack Paar for his TV appearances.

Come to think of it, it's always interesting to see how Presidents and Presidential wannabes choose their media exposure outside of campaign ads and coverage on the news. Bill Clinton played the sax (pretty well, doing an instrumental rendition of Heartbreak Hotel) with the band on the Arsenio Hall Show in 1992. Barack Obama guested with Jay Leno in 2008 (he just chatted with Jay, and didn't perform). Wonder what they'll do this time?

On a totally different topic, it's interesting to see that Boston was probably the biggest two-station market in the country at the beginning of 1952. WGBH was, IIRC, still a few months away from signing on as a pioneer noncomm on Channel 2. The market didn't get a third commercial station (WHDH-TV Channel 5) until 1957.
 
WGBH-TV was actually three years away from sign-on (May 1955). And yes, Boston was surely the largest two-station market at the time. Pittsburgh, of course, was the biggest one-station market.
 
There really was a program called "Itchy and Scratchy"?
Amazing coincidence!

And the program on Channel 4 at 7:30 PM was called
"Young Mr. Bobbin." Similar to "Bringing Up Buddy" with
Frank Aletter a few years later, it was about a young man
living with his two unmarried aunts. It was replaced, for
about three weeks in the fall of 1952, by "Doc Corkle,"
then by one of the summer hits of '52, "Mr. Peepers,"
which lasted three years.
 
It looks like WNAC had secondary ABC and DuMont status. IIRC Ranger Joe, Super Circus and The Name's the Same were on ABC and The Plainclothesman was from DuMont. It also seems weird to see Meet The Press airing so late in the afternoon - did WBZ delay it or was it an afternoon show back then?
 
No, that was the in-pattern time for "Meet The Press." That
summer it aired in prime time (7:30 PM Sunday), and for more
than a decade (October 1952-August 1965) it aired Sundays
at 6 PM. I believe it has been on Sunday mornings just since
the early '90s.
 
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