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Retro: Chicago-Milwaukee, Friday September 10, 1948

From Television Forecast, via Television Obscurinties. This issue features articles on the construction of WNBQ (WMAQ-TV) Channel 5 and WENR-TV (WLS-TV) Channel 7 in Chicago.

Stations
3 WTMJ-TV Milwaukee
4 WBKB Chicago
9 WGN-TV Chicago

(NOTE: Stations are listed by call letters in the magazine, not by channels)

Morning - All shows on WBKB Ch. 4
10:30 AM Fashions on TV - women's show
10:45 AM Films
11:00 AM American Medical Association
11:15 AM Shopping with Dinny - women's show

Afternoon - All shows on WTMJ-TV Ch. 3
3:00 PM Meet Your Neighbors - interviews
3:20 PM Look at the News
3:30 PM What's New - women's show
4:00 PM Children's Corner - films
4:15 PM Animal Adventures - films

Evening - All three stations on the air

7:00 PM
3 Spellball - Quiz show (NBC? It's shown as being live from Radio City)

7:15 PM
4 Timely Tips

7:20
3 Look at the News

7:30
3 Reel Fun
4 Shopping with Dinny - women's show
9 Film feature - TBA

7:35
9 Individually Yours - women's show starring Celeste Carlyle

7:45 PM
4 Film

7:50 PM
3 NBC Newsreel
4 Telenews - Jim Ameche
9 Film

8:00 PM
3 Film Featurettes
4 Film
9 Chicagoland Newsreel

8:10 PM
9 Players of the Day - Ed Cooper - I think WGN-TV used this as their pregame show for both the Cubs and Sox.

8:15 PM
4 Young & Victor - comedy (CBS?)

8:20 PM
9 Baseball - St. Louis Browns vs Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park (Jack Brickhouse PBP)

8:25 PM
4 Football - Baltimore Colts vs Chicago Rockets at Soldier Field (AAFC - Joe Wilson PBP)

8:30 PM
3 Auto races - Midget races from Milwaukee

10:30 PM
4 News
9 Tenth Inning
 
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