Retro: Cincinnati/Columbus/Dayton Mon, Jan 12, 1953

[Bluenoser]

from TV Dial (pre-national based in Springfield; that week's issue was Vol 3-No 3)

3 WLWC Columbus
4 WLW Cincinnati
5 WLWD Dayton
6 WTVN Columbus
7 WCPO Cincinnati
10 WBNS Columbus
12 WKRC Cincinnati
13 WHIO Dayton

Morning
7:00
3-4-5 Today
13 Ernie Lee (Ernie Lee/Tony Perry)

7:05
7 Farm News/Cartoon Carnival

7:35
7 Breakfast Serial

7:45
12 Kids Kartoons

7:55
7 Western Roundup
13 Sport Show (Si Burick)

8:00
12 Hollywood Playhouse
13 WHI Opener (Ted Ryan/Charlie Reeder)

8:30
3-4-5 Morning Matinee (Judy Perkins/Russ Brown)

9:00
3-4-5 Captain Glenn's Playclub (Glenn Rowell)
7 Uncle Al (Al Lewis)
10 Take Ten (Jack Buck)
13 Uncle Bob

9:15
12 Hydetime (Dick Hyde)

9:30
3-4-5 Breakfast Party (Mel Martin/Marion Spelman)
13 Perfect Pair

9:45
10 Touring the Town (Jip Huston)
12 CBS News

9:50
13 Morning Meditations

10:00
7 Get Back in Shape (Bill Dawes/Phyllis Berg)
10-12-13 Arthur Godfrey

10:15
7 Bill Dawers

10:30
3 Movies for Mom "Love from a Stranger"
4 Movies for Mom "Behind Locked Doors"
5 Movies for Mom: TBA
7 Kitchen Show (Norma)

11:00
7 Uncle Al's Corner (Cinderella joins Al Lewis)
10 Jean's Kitchen Fair (Jean Phair)
12 There's One in Every Family
13 Trailhands (Russ Hilton)

11:30
10-12-13 Strike It Rich

11:45
5 Dayton & the Nation (Omar Williams/Bill Ditzel)

11:55
3 Midday Meditation
4 Five Minutes to Live By
5 Hello Neighbor
6 News (Dave Nichols)

Afternoon
noon
3-4-5 50/50 Club (Ruth Lyons/Willie Thall, Al Morgan on piano, songs from Dick Noel, Marian Spelman, and Russ Brown)
6 Nita's Guest Book (Nita Hutch)
7 El Rancho GreyBar
10 Globetrotter (Norman Dohn)/Farmtime (Bill Zipf)
12-13 Bride & Groom

12:15
7 Mid-Day Merry Go Round (Big Jim Stacy/Grandpappy/Down Home Boys; on Tu/Th, this didn't start til 12:30, GreyBar must have ran 30 min then)
10-12-13 Love of Life

12:30
10-12-13 Search for Tomorrow

12:45
6 Mid-Day Movie
7 Movie Time
10-12-13 Guiding Light

1:00
3 Shoot the Works (Spooks Beckman/Lyn Ballard)
4 Mother's Movie "Missing Lady"
5 Shopping with Cornelia
10 Homemaker's Hob Nob (Tom Gleba/Jeanne Shea; music by Pat Wilson and Bob Marvin)
12 Cinderella Week End
13 Streetman (Lou Emm)

1:15
13 Sunbeamers (Jose Madrigal/Marion Ganges/Nancy Blair)

1:30
3 Movie Matinee "Old Fashioned Girl)
5 Coffee Club (Betty Ann Horstman; music by Arvie Recore Trio)

1:50
7 Garnet Grayson Suggests

2:00
6 Star in the Home (Renie Riano, who also wrote for TV Dial)
7 Paul Dixon's Movie Shop
10-12-13 Double or Nothing

2:30
4 Dick Hagerman (co-host Rosemary Olberding)
6 Pat's Open House (Pat Ward/Jerry Rasor/Dave Wilson)
10-12-13 Linkletter's House Party

2:55
4 News
5 Oh Baby (Jack Barry)

3:00
3-4-5 Big Payoff
6 Film Short
10 Homemakers HobNob
12 Theatre of the Air "Tanks a Million"
13 Virginia Patterson (co-host Charlie Reeder)

3:15
6 John Marshall

3:30
3-4-5 Welcome Travelers
6 Just Neighbors (Dad & Blanche Meacham)
10 Bride & Groom

3:45
10-12 Mike (Wallace) and Buff (Cobb)

4:00
3-4-5 Kate Smith (guests Sinclair & Spaulding, DNC chair Stephen Mitchell, and juggler Francis Brown)
6 Teen Time (Johnny Morrison/Carolyn Ellis)
10 Aunt Fran
12 Chuck Talk "Desert Phantom"
13 Movie Matinee "Atlantic Flight"

4:30
6 Prospector Bill
7 Six-Gun Playhouse "Wild West"

4:45
10 Western Roundup

5:00
3-4-5 Hawkins Falls
12-13 Kenny Roberts (which station originated this?)

5:15
3-4-5 Gabby Hayes "Valley of Fear" (pt 1)

5:30
3-4-5 Howdy Doody
6 Film Short
7 Six-Gun Theatre "Guns in the Dark"

5:45
12 Kids Komedys
13 Cartoons

5:55
13 Weather

Evening
6:00
3 Comedy Carnival (Lynn Ballard)
4 Captain Glenn's Bandwagon (Glenn Rowell/Cy Kelly/Rosemary Olberding)
5 Hopalong Cassidy
6 Renie Riano Time
10 Flash Gordon (Tom Gleba)
12 Early Home Theatre "The Levenworth Case"
13 Ernie Lee

6:15
10 Spotlight Revue
13 Perry Como

6:20
3 Sports Today (Tom Keyes)

6:25
3 Capitol News
6 News

6:30
3-5 Meetin' Time (Sally Flowers/Billy Scott)
4 Cartoon Carnival
6 Club 6:30
7 UP Movietone News
10 TV Weatherman (Bob McMaster)
13 Trailhands

6:40
10 Florascopes (Earl Flora)

6:45
6-7-13 Wait Hoyt's Hall of Fame
10 Looking with Long (Chet Long)

6:55
4 News Reports (Peter Grant)

7:00
3-4-5 Al Morgan
6-7-13 Captain Video
10 Beat the Clock

7:10
12 Weather Report (Daryl Parks)

7:15
3-5 Short Short Drama "The Gift"
4 Dick Noel
12 News/Sports

7:30
3-4-5 Those Two
6-7 Hollywood Screen Test "Dance to Freedom's Tune"
10-12-13 CBS News

7:45
3-4-5 Camel News Caravan
10-12 Perry Como
13 Trailhands

8:00
3-4-5 What's My Name?
6-7 Mark Saber "The Case of the Deadly Queen"
10-12-13 Lux Video Theatre "Thanks for a Lovely Evening"

8:30
3-4-5 Voice of Firestone (guest Eugene Conley)
6 Johns Hopkins "Man Against Cancer"
7 Texas Rasslin'
10-13-13 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts

9:00
3-4-5 Hollywood Opening Nite "The Living Image"
6 Big Idea
10-12-13 I Love Lucy

9:30
3-4-5 Robert Montgomery Presents "Ricochet"
6 Sports Show
7-10-13 Red Buttons
12 Foreign Intrigue

10:00
6-7 Boxing: from Eastern Parkway Arena in NYC, a 10-round heavyweight bout between Bill Gilliam and Bob Baker
10-12-13 Studio One "The Trial of John Peter Zenger"

10:45
6-7 Ringside Interviews

11:00
3-4-5 Three City Final (Peter Grant/Barry Lake/Bob Provence)
6-7 Sohio Reporter (Warren Guthrie)
10 News (Bill Pepper)
12 Front Page News (George Palmer)
13 Front Page News (Don Wayne)

11:05
13 Almanac

11:10
6 Golden Theatre
7 Weather/Sports
10-12 Weather
13 Sports

11:15
3 Your Family Playhouse "Foreign Correspondent"
4 Your Family Playhouse "Young Man's Fancy"
5 Your Family Playhouse "Carmen"
7 Starlight Theatre "Stagecoach to Denver"
10 Armchair Theatre "Borrowed Hero"
12 Home Theatre "Time Flies"
13 Penny Arcade "Barefoot Boy"

 

[Tim L]

Glenn Rowell and Cy Kelly would bring "Captain Glenn" to Cleveland's WNBK-4(Later 3) later in 1953-Into the Spring of 1954. I did not know that Warren Guthrie's Sohio Reporter extended into Cincinnati and Columbus, Originating from WXEL/WJW-8, Cleveland..

 

[bpatrick]

I'm not from Ohio but I did recognize a few names that rang
a bell: Ernie Lee, who I assume is the same Ernie Lee who did
the "Breakfast Beat" on WTVT Tampa in the '60s and '70s; Dick
Noel, a singer on Tennessee Ernie Ford's ABC daytime show (1962-65);
and Marian Spelman, who cohosted "Be Our Guest" with Bill Nimmo on
WLWT in the mid-'60s (they later married).

I was also surprised that Garry Moore's daytime show on CBS (1:30 PM)
wasn't carried on any of the CBS stations. The show was quite popular,
running eight years (the last four at 10 AM) before Moore switched to
primetime in 1958.

Finally, a technical question: was WAVE Louisville still on Channel 5 and
WHAS on Channel 9? I know there were a number of channel changes:
these two moved to 3 and 11 respectively; as for the ones on the list:

WLWC (WCMH) Columbus: Ch. 3 to Ch. 4
WLW(T) Cincinnati: Ch. 4 to Ch. 5
WLWD (WDTN) Dayton: Ch. 5 to Ch. 2
WTVN (WSYX) Columbus: stayed on Ch. 6
WCPO Cincinnati: Ch. 7 to Ch. 9
WBNS Columbus: stayed on Ch. 10
WKRC Cincinnati: stayed on Ch. 12
WHIO Dayton: Ch. 13 to Ch. 7

I think the move of WLWT and WCPO to 5 and 9, respectively,
caused the channel change in Louisville, since the Louisville stations
were short-spacing the Cincinnati ones.

I can also imagine some short-spacing problems involving Ch. 3
in Cleveland with a 3 in Columbus; likewise, with 13 in Dayton and
Indianapolis. But you note that NBC was on Ch. 4 in Cleveland at
the time; was it short-spacing Detroit's 4?

This must have been about the time of the big channel swaps in the
Deep South: when WBRC Birmingham moved from 4 to 6, WRBL Columbus, GA
from 4 to 3; WTVM Columbus, GA from 28 to 9; WTVY Dothan, AL from 9 to 4.

 

[KeithE4]

Finally, a technical question: was WAVE Louisville still on Channel 5 and WHAS on Channel 9? I know there were a number of channel changes: these two moved to 3 and 11 respectively; as for the ones on the list:

WLWC (WCMH) Columbus: Ch. 3 to Ch. 4
WLW(T) Cincinnati: Ch. 4 to Ch. 5
WLWD (WDTN) Dayton: Ch. 5 to Ch. 2
WTVN (WSYX) Columbus: stayed on Ch. 6
WCPO Cincinnati: Ch. 7 to Ch. 9
WBNS Columbus: stayed on Ch. 10
WKRC Cincinnati: stayed on Ch. 12
WHIO Dayton: Ch. 13 to Ch. 7

WKRC had started on Channel 11 and moved to 12 in 1952.

Also as part of the Indiana/Ohio/Kentucky channel-swapping:

INDIANA
WTTV Bloomington/Indianapolis: Ch. 10 to Ch. 4
WFBM (WRTV) Indianapolis: Stayed on Ch. 6
Allocation for Indianapolis (never-built WWHB): Ch. 3 was dropped with no VHF replacement.
Allocation for Indianapolis (later WISH): Stayed on Ch. 8
Allocation for Indianapolis (later WLWI/WTHR): Ch. 12 to Ch. 13
Allocation for Terre Haute (later WTHI): Ch. 4 to Ch. 10
Allocation for Evansville (later WTVW): Ch. 2 to Ch. 7
Allocation for Evansville (later cp for WVJS, and much later WNIN): Ch. 11 to Ch. 9

OHIO
WNBK (WKYC) Cleveland: Ch. 4 to Ch. 3
WEWS Cleveland: Stayed on Ch. 5
WXEL (WJW) Cleveland: Ch. 9 to Ch. 8
Allocation for Columbus: Ch. 8 was dropped (moved to Cleveland with no VHF replacement in Columbus)
Allocation for Cincinnati: Ch. 2 was dropped (moved to Dayton with no VHF replacement in Cincinnati)

The Cleveland/Columbus moves allowed a new allocation in Steubenville (Ch. 9), allowed the allocation for Wheeling to move from Ch. 12 to Ch. 7, and cost Pittsburgh one VHF channel (3-6-8-10-12 to 2-4-11-13).

So the VHF assigments changed as follows in 1952:
Ch. 2: Cincinnati to Dayton, new allocation in Pittsburgh
Ch. 3: Indianapolis to Louisville, Columbus & Pittsburgh to Cleveland
Ch. 4: Terre Haute & Cincinnati to Bloomington, Cleveland to Columbus & Pittsburgh
Ch. 5: Dayton & Louisville to Cincinnati
Ch. 6: No changes (Indianapolis & Columbus)
Ch. 7: Cincinnati to Dayton and Evansville
Ch. 8: Columbus & Pittsburgh to Cleveland, no change in Indy
Ch. 9: Louisville to Cincinnati & Evansville, Cleveland to Steubenville
Ch. 10: Bloomington to Terre Haute, no change in Columbus, Pittsburgh dropped.
Ch. 11: Cincinnati to Louisville, new allocation in Pittsburgh
Ch. 12: Indianapolis to Cincinnati
Ch. 13: Dayton to Indianapolis

I'll bet the guy(s) at the FCC got a headache figuring out all this. ;D

 

[Tim L]

Most of the above changes took place in the 1952-54 time frame..WNBK moved to channel 3 April 25, 1954..It was stated that their new, more powerful transmitter was moved to chanel 3 to avoid interference with 4 in Detroit and 5 in Cleveland.

In 1949, before WXEL signed on channel 9, it was possible they would have at least started out on Channel 11..

 

[bpatrick]

Is the Jack Buck who hosted "Take Ten" the sportscaster?

Also, two of these local shows had brief runs on NBC: "Breakfast
Party" and Ruth Lyons' "50/50 Club." Ms. Lyons' show was holding
its own against the "Love Of Life"/"Search For Tomorrow"/"Guiding
Light" combination on CBS, but NBC wanted her to move to New York,
and she was Cincinnati to the core.

Years later, Multimedia wanted to syndicate her successor, Bob Braun.
Braun liked to spotlight regional talent, which he felt he would no longer
be able to do on a national show. Besides, from what I've gathered, his
show was in the Mike Douglas/Merv Griffin vein, and this was at a time
when another Multimedia show, "Donahue," ruled the daytime talk-show
roost, and Oprah was waiting in the wings.

And one other Cincinnati personality, Paul Dixon, had network shows on
ABC and (I think) DuMont, as well as a syndicated show that lasted until
shortly before his death in 1974.

It is to wonder that Nick Clooney never got a national talk show, especially
after "The Money Maze" gave him national exposure (and he was doing a
show on WKRC).

But as Variety's Les Brown wrote in "Television: The Business Behind The
Box," at one time no market could touch Cincinnati for its elaborately-produced
local shows.

 

[Bob1370]

"Is the Jack Buck who hosted "Take Ten" the sportscaster?"

Yes.

He was working in the Columbus market from 1951 to 1953, calling the games of the AAA -level Columbus Redbirds of the American Association, a St. louis Cardinals farm club, on WBNS and doing some TV on WBNS-TV at the same time. Within a few weeks after this listing was printed, he moved to Rochester, NY (a bigger market than Columbus at the time) at the Cardinals' urging and started calling the International League Rochester Red Wings (also a AAA club but considered the top farm club in the Cardinals organization at the time) on WHEC (AM) for the 1953 season. No local TV for Buck there, since WHEC didn't get its sister TV station on the air until November of 1953, by which time Buck had been promoted to the Cardinals booth for the '54 season, beginning a relationship with the Cards, KMOX and St. Louis that would last until his passing in 2002.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Allocation for Indianapolis (never-built WWHB): Ch. 3 was dropped with no VHF replacement.

So the VHF assigments changed as follows in 1952:

Ch. 3: Indianapolis to Louisville, Columbus & Pittsburgh to Cleveland

The removal of channels 3 (and 12) from Indy also made possible the allocations of these channel numbers to Champaign/Urbana, IL: WCIA on channel 3 and WILL on 12. WCIA signed on in November 1953 and WILL followed within two years.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

13 WHIO Dayton
Morning
7:00
13 Ernie Lee (Ernie Lee/Tony Perry)

Is this the same Tony Perry from Tucson radio and TV in the later '50s and '60s?

 

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Russ Brown research

Our family is trying to gather information (and perhaps some photos and/or video or sound recording) of family member & radio personality Russ Brown.

He is mentioned in this thread as part of Morning Matinee with Judy Perkins. He went on to cohost on Ruth Lyons too . . .

We would appreciate any suggestions for contacts and archives, and where else to research . . .

thank you!