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Retro:Cleveland/Akron/Youngstown Friday, December 25, 1953

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TimL

Guest
Stations (Current Call Letters/Network in Parentheses)

Cleveland

4 WNBK NBC (3 WKYC)

5 WEWS CBS (Now ABC)

8 WXEL DuMont/ABC (WJW-FOX)

Akron

49 WAKR ABC (23 WVPX Pax-i)

Youngstown

27 WKBN CBS/DuMont/ABC (CBS Only)

73 WFMJ NBC (Now Channel 21)

Because 8 and 27 were DuMont/ABC Network shows will be indicated..4 (as well as 73) and 5 always carried NBC and CBS Respectively.

(Explanation about the spacing:The Cleveland portion of the schedule was copied/pasted from a schedule I typed on a Petticoat Junction Message board a while back-The Board was spaced like that. I added in the Youngstown Portions of the schedule for this thread.)

Original Source:TV Guide Lake Erie Edition

Morning

7:00 4 73 Today-Dave Garroway plays host to 200 under priviledged kids at Rockefeller center.

8:55 5 News

9:00 4 Captain Glenn

5 A Star Shall Rise

73 Pictorial Parade



9:25 4 Ohio Today-Tom Haley

9:30 4 Idea Shop-Milded/Gloria

5 Mixing Bowl

8 A Star Shall Rise (Why its on 2 stations I don't Know)

More research Indicates this was an episode of Family Theater..A religious series that perhaps like the Christophers was offered free to any TV Station..This program featured Raymond Burr In The cast..An Earlier Family Theater Radio Series, Which featured many Hollywood Stars, was aired from 1947-69

9:55 4 Ohio Today

10:00 4 73 Ding Dong School

5 Jack Paar

8 Movie-Miracle On Main Street

10:15 5 News Summary

10:30 4 73 Glamor Girl

11:00 4 73 Washington Cathedral Episcopal Christmas Service

5 Wheel Of Fortune (No relation to the current Game Show)

11:15 4 73 Three Steps to Heaven-soap

11:30 4 73 The Bennets-Soap

5 Strike It Rich-Game
Warren Hull as Santa

8 This Is The Life

11:45 4 73 Follow Your Heart-Soap

Afternoon

12:00 4 73 Bride And Groom-Nelson

5 Valiant Lady

8 Merry Go Round

12:15 4 Haley's Daily-Local Variety

5 27 Love Of Life

73 Noontime Comics

12:30 4 Maggie Byrne-Fashions

5 27 Search For Tomorrow

12:45 5 Guiding Light

27 Christmas Carol

73 News Headlines


1:00 4 Movie Alice In Wonderland-Puppets

5 Women's Window-Hints

8 Movie-Stage Door Canteen

73 Movie-Apache Chief

1:30 5 Garry Moore Show-Special Christmas Show featuring Zippy The Chimp

27 Movie Miniature

1:45 27 Gary Moore (Joined In Progress)

2:00 5 Double Or Nothing-Quiz

27 Movie-TBA

2:15 4 Joe Portaro-Beauty Tips

73 Fashion Sketchbook

2:30 4 To Be Announced

5 Art Linkletter-Bill May Reads from The Bible..Art's Children visit

73 Kitchen Corner-Mariner (This show was on in one form or another until the early-mid 1960's)

2:45 4 Chef Lorenzo-Cooking

3:00 4 73 Kate Smith Show
Carl Brisson (Singer) Charlie Ruggles (World Of Mr. Sweeney) Dorothy Day with a fashion show.

5 Sealtest Big Top-Special Christmas show-CBS

8 27 Paul Dixon-DuMont Network

4:00 4 73 Welcome Travelers

5 Dinner Platter Bob Dale-Local Variety

8 49 Turn To A Friend-Dennis James-ABC

27 Action In The Afternoon-CBS A "Live" Daily Western orginating from WCAU-10 in Philadelphia.

4:30 4 73 On Your Account-Quiz

8 27 49 Ern Westmore-ABC

5:00 4 Atom Squad

5 Christmas Festival Of Music-CBS

8 Comedy Carnival-Kids

27 Movie-Western Feature

73 Buckaroo Time-Western

49 Hinky Dinks-Kids

5:15 4 73 Gabby Hayes

5:30 4 73 Howdy Doody

8 Desert Deputy-Western Short Films

49 Corral Time

Evening

6:00 4 SupperTime Comics

5 Uncle Jake's House-Gene Carroll

27 Adventure Time-Film

73 News/Weather

6:10 8 News

73 Viz Quiz-Film

6:15 49 Rex Humbard Family

6:20 8 Sports-Al Rosen (Then-current Cleveland Indians Manager)

73 Eddie Lane-Sports Bulletins

6:30 4 Tom Manning Sports

5 Dorothy Fuldheim News/Comment

8 TV Weather Man

27 News Today

49 Similing Ed's Gang-ABC

73 Film Fare-Variety

6:40 4 Weather Factory-Glenn Rowell

8 Les Paul/Mary Ford

27 News At Home

6:45 4 Tom Field News

5 Columbus Boy Choir

8 Home With The Grahams

27 Don Gardner Sports

6:55 5 Johnny Price Weather

27 Stu Wilson Weather

7:004 You Can Be Better-Talk

5 Twenty Fingers-Live Piano/Organ Show

8 27 Captain Video-DuMont

49 News-Fitzgibbons

7:10 49 Sports-Bob Wylie

7:15 5 The Greatest Drama

8 News Parade Jim Lang/Jimmy Dudley

27 To Be Announced

49 Kenny Nichols-Quiz

7:30 4 73 Eddie Fisher Coke Time-Tuskegee Institute Choir Is Guest

5 27 CBS News-Douglas Edwards

8 49 Stu Erwin Show-ABC

7:45 4 73 NBC News-John Cameron Swayze

5 Perry Como-Just him singing carols..What I wouldnt give for a video of that show

27 The Christophers

8:00 4 73 Dave Garroway

5 Mama

8 Ozzie And Harriet-ABC

27 Dollar A Second-DuMont

49 Teen WHO Club

8:30 4 73 Life Of Riley

5 27 Topper

8 49 Pepsi Cola Playhouse-ABC

9:00 4 73 Big Story-Drama

5 27 Schlitz Playhouse Of Stars-"Baker Of Barnbury" With Robert Newton nd Elsa Lanchester as two lonely people at Christmas

8 Life Begins at 80-DuMont

49 Paul Hartman Show-ABC Better know as "Emmett" on the Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry RFD.

9:30 4 73 TV Soundstage-Happy Headline Reporter (James Costigan) Manages to make a lonely old couple happy at Christmas

5 27 Our Miss Brooks-Alone At Christmas

8 49 Comeback Story-ABC

10:00 4 73 Christmas With the Stars-Gillette Sponsored this in place of their Boxing Show

Guests:Tyrone Power, Eddie Fisher, Rosemary Clooney, The Boston Pops, Victor Borge and Eddie "Rochester": Anderson They closed the show with a Bible Reading.

5 27 My Friend Irma-She believes in Santa

8 Chance of A Lifetime-Dennis James-DuMont

49 The Joyful Hour-Presumably a local program

10:30 5 I Led Three lives

8 Down You Go-DuMont

27 Person To Person-Murrow (CBS)

11:00 4 Tom Field News

5 Movie-Cover-Up

8 The Sohio Reporter-Warren Guthrie

49 News-Bill Murphy

73 Stage 73 (Movie) Stepping In Society

11:05 4 Sports Ken Coleman ( Red Sox Radio announcer for years)

11:10 4 Weather-Joe Finan

8 Ted Malone Today's Top Story

27 Sid Davis News

49 Sports Final

11:15 4 Movie The Cheaters

8 John Fitzgerald Sports

27 Movie-TBA

49 Weather Forecast

11:20 8 Movie Man In The Dinghy

12:00 Midnight 73 News

12:30 27 News
 
It's very interesting to note that back then, most TV programs aired live, meaning that a lot of people on both sides of the camera had to work on Christmas Day.

Nowadays, very little on TV (except news, sports, or a program like "Saturday Night Live") airs live. A lot of people in the industry get Christmas Day off. In fact, I believe that in recent years, the only parts of the Christmas Day edition of NBC's "Today" show that air live are the half-hourly news/weather updates. The rest of the Christmas Day "Today" show is taped ahead of time, which allows the regular on-air hosts (Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry and Al Roker) to appear on the show that day without actually having to work on Christmas Morning.

Nearly all stations with local news departments have a vastly-reduced schedule of local newscasts on Christmas Day. Some stations that normally produce local news do not produce any newscasts at all on Christmas Day (regular timeslots for local news are filled instead by network or syndicated Christmas specials and/or a pre-taped "Year In Review" program spotlighting the year's biggest local news stories), in order to give the stations' entire news and production staffs the day off.
 
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