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Retro: Cleveland/Akron/Youngstown Thurs, May 20, 1954

from TV Guide-Lake Erie edition

3 WNBK-NBC Cleveland
5 WEWS-CBS Cleveland
8 WXEL-ABC/DuMont Cleveland
27 WKBN-CBS/ABC/DuMont Youngstown
49 WAKR-ABC Akron
73 WFMJ-NBC Youngstown (WFMJ had just received FCC approval to move to ch21, it would do so August 7th, info per WFMJ website)

Morning
7:00
3-73 Today (a live shot from Yonkers Raceway is the day's highlight)
5-27 Morning Show

8:55
8 Preview Corner

9:00
3 Movie "Wolf Call"
5 Wings of Song
8-27 Breakfast Club
73 Movie "Should Husbands Work?"

9:30
5 Western Reserve Telecourse

10:00
3-73 Ding Dong School (color)
5 Arthur Godfrey
8 Maggie Wulff
27 Movie "Woman in Brown"

10:30
3-73 One Man's Family
8 Charming Children
49 Army-McCarthy Hearings

10:45
3-73 Three Steps to Heaven

11:00
3-73 Home (Mrs America goes to Gimbel's in Philly for a shopping tour)
8 Alice Weston

11:30
5 Vanity Fair (Mrs Alex Zaremba of Cleveland takes over from Cleveland's Mrs W.E. Abbott as the week's poetess)
8 Rena & Bob (TV shopping)
27 Strike It Rich

Afternoon
noon
3-73 Bride & Groom (the lucky couple is Stella Hamblin and Neville Bosse from Lebanon)
5 Valiant Lady
8 Treasure Party
27 News

12:15
3-73 Hawkins Falls
5-27 Love of Life

12:30
3-73 Betty White
5-27 Search for Tomorrow

12:45
5-27 Guiding Light

1:00
3 Movie "Who Killed Doc Robbin?"
5 Women's Window
8-27 Brighter Day
73 News

1:15
8 Portia Faces Life
27 Home Cooking
73 Hal's a Poppin' (from the Century Foods Exposition)

1:30
5 Garry Morre
8 Movie "Strange Illusion"

1:45
5-27 Garry Moore

2:00
73 Kitchen Corner (also from the CFE)

2:15
3 Maggi Byrne

2:30
5 Art Linkletter
27 This Life of Ours
49 Army-McCarthy Hearings

3:00
3-73 Kate Smith
5-27 Big Payoff
8 All for You

3:15
8 Joe Portaro (a TVG ad mentions that Joe just moved his show to ch8's studios to accomodate a larger audience)

3:30
5 Bob Crosby
8-27 Paul Dixon

4:00
3-73 Welcome Travelers
5 Mixing Bowl
8-27 Woman with a Past

4:15
8-27 Secret Storm

4:30
3-73 On Your Account
5-27 Robert Q. Lewis
8 King Jack's Toy Box

5:00
3 Pinky Lee
5 Uncle Jake's House
8 Good Neighbors
27 Grizzly Pete
49 Hinky Dinks
73 Susie Sidesaddle

5:30
3-73 Howdy Doody
8 Movie: TBA
49 Summer Matinee

5:45
5 News

5:50
5 Dinner Platter

Evening
6:00
3 Kit Carson
27 Clubhouse
49-73 News

6:10
49 Social Whirl

6:15
8-73 Sports
49 Humbard Family

6:25
73 Weather

6:30
3-49 Sports
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
8 Weather
27 News Today
73 Inner Sanctum

6:40
3 Weather Vein
8 Cleveland Today
27 News at Home

6:55
5-27-49 Weather

7:00
3 Walt's Workshop
5 Seven O'Clock News
8-27 Captain Video
49 News
73 Telesports Digest

7:10
5 TV IQ
49 Scores

7:15
5 It's Worth Knowing
8 News Parade
27 It Takes All Kinds
49 John Daly

7:30
3-73 Dinah Shore
5-27 Douglas Edwards
8 Lone Ranger
49 Chef Lorenzo

7:45
3-73 John Cameron Swayze
5 Jane Froman
27 Ohio Story

7:55
27 This Week at Home

8:00
3-73 Groucho Marx
5-27 Meet Mr McNutley
8 Dr IQ
49 Citizens in the Know

8:30
3 Justice
5-27 Four Star Playhouse "Backstage"
8-49 Ray Bolger

9:00
3-73 Dragnet
5-27 Video Theater "Blind Fury"
8-49 Open Hearing

9:30
3-73 Ford Theater "Beneath These Waters" (Future Prez Ronald Reagan stars as a new Navy destroyer commander who discovers that he's got a dysfunctional crew)
5-27 Big Town
8-49 Kraft Theatre "All Our Yesterdays"

10:00
3-73 Martin Kane
5 Public Defender
27 Danny Thomas

10:30
3 My Favorite Story
5 Biff Baker
8 Racket Squad
27 Stars on Parade
49 Liberace
73 Greatest Drama

10:45
73 Movie "Hollywood Stadium Mystery"

11:00
3-8-27-49 News
5 Movie: TBA

11:05
3 Weather

11:10
3-49 Sports
8 Ted Malone
27 News

11:15
3 Custom Inn
8 Sports
27 Movie "Rembrandt"

11:20
8 Movie "The Kansan"

11:30
3 Movie "Mania for Melody"

Late Night
midnight
73 News

12:30
5-27 News

12:45
3 News
 
11:30
8 Rena & Bob (TV shopping)



A quote from WJW-TV's former History Pages (Not on the current FOX 8 Website) describes this as a "garage sale of the air"

Jim Doney: "One of the most popular shows we did was called "Bargain Barn," which was done by a couple named Rena and Bob Ledyard. He'd been the Program Director at WJW radio, and he was a licensed auctioneer. His wife was a garage sale addict. She was always running off scouring the city for garage sale items and would come back and put together a half-hour show. Essentially, it was a garage sale on air. They'd send a pick up truck over to someone's house, bring the stuff back and sell it on TV. It was actually a very big show...very popular."



5:50
5 Dinner Platter



Hosted by WEWS-TV 5 personality Bob Dale, A Canton, Ohio native who had been at Channel 5 since 1948. Ear problems as the result of World War II injuries led him to move out to San Diego, California where he became a broadcasting Icon for over 40 years.

Web Archive:WJW-TV 8 History
http://web.archive.org/web/20070310.../dynamic/images/stories/history/history1.html

Early Blog Post about the same week in May, 1954 (June 20, 2007)

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2007/06/notes-from-week-in-television-may-1954.html

More recent post spotlighting some of the early TV personalities in Cleveland. especially Bob Dale (August 22, 2008)-Included is the Joe Portaro ad mentioned in the original post

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2008/08/classic-cleveland-personalities-1954.html
 
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