Retro: Chicago, May 1943

[KeithE4]

One channel only, exact date not given, but it was on a Monday. Schedule may not be complete, but it was wartime on an experimental station, after all.

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W9XBK Channel 2 (60-66 MHz)
7:30 PM: B&K News -- Cubberly and Campbell
7:45 PM: Joseph Golan, Violin Virtuoso. Lois Albright at the piano.
8:00 PM: Film -- Getting Together (1928)*
8:10 PM: Burr Tillstrom Presents Kukla, The Patriotic Puppet
8:30 PM: The Home Front with Harry Cansdale

* A search of IMDB revealed a one-reel silent movie called Getting Together that was released in 1928. No cast or other details about the film were listed, but the production company was listed as Sports Pictorals.

 

[installLSC]

Wow is this the oldest listing we've seen on RadioDiscussions for TV?
There apparently was another TV station in Chicago in 1943 W9XZV, and why it's not listed I don't know. W9XBK would eventually become WBBM, Chicago's CBS affiliate.

 

[KeithE4]

W9XZV was Zenith's experimental station on Channel 1 (50-56 MHz). They must not have aired anything other than maybe a test pattern that day.

 

[K.M. Richards]

And of course "B&K News" was a reference to then-owners Balaban and Katz, which was a prominent motion picture theatre owner in the region back then.