Retro: Chicago Tuesday, October 30, 1951

[bpatrick]

From the Chicago Daily Tribune:

WBKB Ch. 4 (WBBM Ch. 2) (CBS)

9 AM Fun And Features
9:30 Fun And Figure
9:50 Fun And Features
10:30 Teleshopper
11 AM Creative Cookery
12 N Steve Allen
12:15 Multiscope News
12:30 Garry Moore
1:30 First Hundred Years
1:45 Vanity Fair
2:30 Meet Your Cover Girl
3 PM Homemakers' Exchange
3:30 Visiting Nurse
3:35 Bill Evans
4 PM Steve Allen
4:15 Assembly (don't know if this has
anything to do with the UN)
4:45 Breezy, Don And Vera
5 PM Kids Karnival Kwiz
5:30 Silhouettes Of The West
5:45 Window Shopping
6 PM Bob Elson (longtime Chicago personality)
6:15 Ulmer Turner (news)
6:30 Douglas Edwards With The News
6:45 Stork Club
7 PM Frank Sinatra Show
8 PM Crime Syndicated
8:30 Suspense
9 PM Danger
9:30 2 Minutes To Go (sports quiz with host
Jack Drees)
10 PM Ernie Simon
10:15 Ulmer Turner
10:30 TV Talent Showcase
10:45 Wendell Hall (singer who dates back
to the earliest days of radio)
11 PM Murder Before Midnite
11:30 Night Owl Movie (no title given)
1 AM Ulmer Turner

WNBQ (WMAQ) Ch. 5 (NBC)

11:30 Norman Rose
12 N Meet Mintz
12:15 Newsroom
12:30 Your Luncheon Date
1 PM Matinee Playhouse (not Matinee Theater)
2 PM Miss Susan (soap about a wheelchair-bound
female lawyer, played by a wheelchair-bound
actress, Susan Peters)
2:15 Here's Looking At You
2:30 Bill Goodwin (alternates with Bert Parks)
3 PM Kate Smith
4 PM Hawkins Falls
4:15 Gabby Hayes
4:30 Howdy Doody
5 PM Cactus Jim
5:35 The Weatherman
5:45 Cliff Norton
5:50 Clifton Utley (news--he's the father of
Garrick Utley, big on NBC in the '70s)
6 PM Kukla, Fran And Ollie
6:30 Little Show
6:45 Camel News Caravan (John Cameron Swayze)
7 PM Milton Berle
8 PM Fireside Theater
8:30 Armstrong Circle Theater
9 PM Amateur Hour
10 PM The Weatherman
10:10 Dorsey Connors
10:15 Clifton Utley
10:30 Look At Sports
10:45 Herbie Mintz
11 PM Tele-play Theater
11:30 Sports Newsreel
12 M Midnight Showboat

WENR (WLS) Ch. 7 (ABC)

10:30 Dennis James
11 AM Frances Langford And Don
Ameche
12 N Jesse DeBoth
12:30 Bob And Kay (not a misprint, not
Bob And Ray)
2 PM Housewives' Holiday
2:30 Barbara Moro
4:30 Sagebrush Theater
5:30 The Chimp
5:45 Old Colony Adventure Theater
6 PM Paul Harvey (news)
6:10 Top O' The Weather
6:20 Sports Show
6:30 Beulah
7 PM Charlie Wild, Private Detective
7:30 How Did They Get That Way?
8 PM Football Films
9 PM On Trial (public affairs, not NBC's
Friday-night courtroom anthology)
9:30 Chicago Symphony Chamber Orchestra
10 PM American Portrait
10:30 Football Highlights
11 PM Austin Kiplinger

WGN Ch. 9 (DUMONT)

10 AM Your Figure, Ladies
10:30 Kay Middleton
11:45 Relax With Music
12 N Hi Ladies (I think Mike Douglas got a
break hosting this show)
12:45 Spencer Allen (news)
1 PM Russ Davis
1:45 Plan A Room
2 PM Let's Have Fun
3 PM TV Matinee (funny, we had a show by
this name on WFMY Greensboro)
4 PM Telephone Game
4:30 Trail Blazers' Theater
5:45 Foto Test
6 PM Captain Video
6:30 Spencer Allen
6:45 Newsreel
7 PM Health Talk
7:30 Keep Posted
8 PM Cosmopolitan Theatre
9 PM Royal Playhouse
9:30 Boston Blackie
10 PM Movie: "The Moon And Sixpence"
11:30 Chicagoland Newsreel

 

[Prais]

Couple of things;
WBKB 10am Creative Cookery was hosted by Francois Pope. The theme song was a Chopin song (name forgotten but I can whistle it).

wnbq
"Norman Rose" was actually "Norman Ross, a news commentator.
"Hawkins Falls" was the first soap opera on tv.
10am on WGN "Your Figure Ladies featured "Paul Fogarty", a muscle bound guy in a black shirt who exercised to live organ music.

530pm "The Chimp on wenr, followed a monkey named "Chatter" all over the place, with a guy doing the monkey''s "voice."

I grew up in Chicago and probably watched tv that day. I remember alot of this. Thanks, Butch.

I bet I can answer well any questions you may have.

 

[wbhist]

12:30 Bob And Kay (not a misprint, not
Bob And Ray)

Besides, weren't Bob & Ray on NBC at the time?

 

[Ultimajock]

From the Chicago Daily Tribune:

WBKB Ch. 4 (WBBM Ch. 2) (CBS)

6 PM Bob Elson (longtime Chicago personality)
10:45 Wendell Hall (singer who dates back
to the earliest days of radio)

...Bob Elson was, I think, still doing an early morning radio show on WCFL as well as calling the White Sox games on both TV and radio. I have a 1936 aircheck of a post-season Cubs-Sox game Elson did for the Blue Network of NBC and carried on WCFL, one of the network's three Chicago affiliates at that time; attached to that mp3 is a sportscast Elson did for NBC Blue about 45 minutes after the game ended that was carried on WENR (NBC Blue's owned-and-operated station then)...

...and as for Wendell Hall, one of the very earliest surviving commercial radio airchecks is a February 1931 WTMJ Milwaukee distance check of a Hall performance on NBC as "The Pineapple Picador" (his sponsor on that date was Libby's Fruit)...

 

[Tim L]

12:30 Bob And Kay (not a misprint, not
Bob And Ray)

Besides, weren't Bob & Ray on NBC at the time?

Bob and Ray didnt start on NBC-TV Till November 1951-In a 15 minute early evening show..

Creative Cookery with the Pope Family was also shown at least in 1953 on WNBK-4 in Cleveland..

 

[bpatrick]

Was one of the Pope family on "Creative Cookery"
Carmelita Pope? Seems she was popular in Chicago
around this time (was a panelist on "Down You Go,"
IIRC). I remember her commercials for Pam, the non-
stick product you apply to pans.

I'm also surprised that neither "Love Of Life" nor
"Search For Tomorrow" was carried in Chicago at
the time; both had debuted in September (but
then again, WBBM is the only CBS station outside
the Eastern time zone that carries "Guiding Light"
in the morning, which may say something about
the station's attitude toward soaps).

 

[KeithE4]

IIRC, Carmelita Pope was Francois Pope's daughter.

By 1951, both the Cubs & Sox had exclusive deals with their repective radio outlets and WGN-TV. Bob Elson did Sox games and Bert Wilson called the Cubs on radio then. Jack Brickhouse & Harry Creighton called games on both sides of town on Channel 9. Elson had called both teams prior to World War II, as did several others on several stations.

In 1951, White Sox day games were on WJJD, night games were on WCFL.

Link: Wikipedia - Sox Broadcasters