Retro:Cleveland/Akron/Youngstown Thursday, September 24, 1959

[Tim L]

3 KYW NBC Cleveland
5 WEWS ABC Cleveland
8 WJW CBS Cleveland
21 WFMJ Youngstown NBC
27 WKBN Youngstown CBS
45 WKST Youngstown ABC
49 WAKR Akron ABC


Thursday, September 24, 1959
6:30
3 Credo-Channel 3 used this title for Interfaith religious sign-on messages into the 1980s..

6:35
3 Morning News Roundup

6:45
3 Today's Classroom

7AM
3-21 Today
8 Morning Meditation

7:15
8 Rex Humbard

7:30
8 Spunky And Tadpole

8AM
27 CBS News-Richard C. Hottelet

8:15
8-27 Captain Kangaroo

8:55
3 News-Tom Haley
5 News-Randy Culver

9AM
3 Movie-The Stranger's Return -Part 2-1933 (Cash On The Line)
5 Western Reserve Telecourse
8 Movie-Lady Gangster-1942 (Watch And Win)
21 Coffee Break-Drama Probably antholgy reruns
27 Movie-The Keys Of the kingdom-Part 2-1944

9:30
5 Paige Palmer
21 Bugs Bunny

10AM
21 Dough Re Mi-Game

10:20
8 News-Jim Doney

10:25
3 Window-Women

10:30
3-21 Treasure Hunt-Jan Murray
8-27 Sam Levenson

11AM
3-21 The Price Is Right-Bill Cullen
5 Red Riley-Kids
8-27 I Love Lucy

11;30
3-21 Concentration-Hugh Downs
5 Stu Erwin Show
8-27 Top Dollar-Game

Noon
3-21 Tic Tac Dough
5 News-Randy Culver
8-27 Love Of Life
49 Movie-The Good Earth-1937

12:05
5 Noon Show-Captain Penny

12:30
3-21 It Could Be You-Bill Leyden
8 Search For Tomorrow
27 Movie-The Man Who Lived Twice-1936

12:45
8 Guiding Light

1PM
3 Movie-Christopher Strong-1933 (Big Wilson)
5 One O Clock Club
8 Movie-Notorious Gentleman-1947
21 News Headlines

1:15
21 Kitchen Corner-Marjorie Mariner

1:45
27 Carousel-Women

2PM
21 Queen For A Day
27 For Better Or Worse-Serial
45-49 Day In Court

2:30
5-45-49 Gale Storm Show
8-27 Linkletter's House Party
21 The Thin Man

2:50
3 News-Pete French

3PM
3-21 Young Dr. Malone
5-45-49 Beat The Clock-Bud Collyer
8-27 Big Payoff

3;30
3-21 From These Roots
5-45-49 Who Do You Trust?
8-27 The Verdict Is Yours

4PM
3-21 Truth Or Consequences-COLOR-Bob Barker
5-45-49 American Bandstand-Dick Clark
8 Brighter Day
27 Cartoon Classics

4:15
8-27 Secret Storm

4:30
3-21 County Fair-Bert Parks
8 Edge Of Night
27 Movie-Armored Car
49 Movie-High Noon-1952

5PM
3 Barnaby, Popeye And Friends
8 As The World Turns
21 Looneyville

5:30
3 Movie-The Iron Major-1943
5-45 Adventure Time
8 Movie-The Duke Of West Point-1938
21 Popeye And Friends
27 Three Stooges

6PM
5 Three Stooges-Ants In The Pantry
21 Huckleberry Hound
45 My Hero-Early Robert Cummings sitcom
49 Looney Tunes

6:15
27 Suppertime-Humbards

6:30
5 News/Comment-Dorothy Fuldheim
21-27 News
45 Film Short

6:45
5 News-Tom Field
21 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley
27 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
45 ABC News-John Daly
49 Zip Interviews-Akron U. Sports

6:50
3 News-Pete French
5 Weather-"Sunny" Day

6:55
3 Here's The Pitch-Sports
5 Three Stooges and Friends
49 Weather, News

7PM
3 77th Bengal Lancers
8 City Camera-News
21 Target-Adolphe Menjou
27 Roving Camera-Stu Wilson
45 Abbott And Costello

7:10
8 Sports Camera-Warren Moran

7:15
5 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley

For a time in 1959-60..Up till Friday, July 1, 1960..WEWS carried Huntley/Brinkley..Monday, July 4 1960 Huntley/Brinkley moved over to KYW-TV 3

8 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
49 ABC News-John Daly

7:30
3-5-8-21-27-45-49 Khruschev Visit-Reporters/Commentators:NBC-Ray Scherer, Richard Harkness-ABC:John Secondari, Robert Fleming, Charles Ashley-CBS:Walter Cronkite, Howard K. Smith, Paul Niven and Whitman Bassow..

8PM
3-21 Who Pays?-Mike Wallace..Panelists-Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Celeste Holm and Gene Klavan.."Bat Masterson" Moves to this time next week.
5-45 Zorro-To be replaced by Donna Reed The following week..
8-27 December Bride-'The Betty Hutton Show" premieres next week at this time..as December Bride moves to Weekdays
49 Movie-Tugboat Annie-1933

8:30
3-21 Staccato
5 Real McCoys
8-27 Yancy Derringer-Last Show-"Johnny Ringo" premieres at this time next week
45 26 Men

9PM
3-21 Bachelor Father
5-45-49 Leave It To Beaver-Moves to Saturday Nights at 8:30 Pat Boone returns next week at this time
8-27 Zane Grey Theater

9:30
3-21 21 Beacon Street-Last Show-The Ford Show with Tennessee Ernie Ford returns to this time slot next week
5-45 Rough Riders-Last Show-After an expanded Pat Boone Show and an episode of "Meet McGraw" "The Untouchables" premieres Oct. 15, 1959
8-27 Playhouse 90
49 Movie-Words and Music-1948

10PM
3-21 Groucho Marx
5 Waterfront
45 Confidential File

10:30
3 It's A Great Life
5 Quarterback Club-Browns Highlights with Ken Coleman
21 Masquerade Party-COLOR-Last Show

11PM
3 News-Pete French
5 News-Tom Field
8-27 News-Warren Guthrie
21 News

11:10
3 Weather-Joe Finan
8 Press Box-John Fitzgerald

11:15
3 Sports-Jim Graner
5 Jack Paar
8 Weather-Doug Adair

11:20
3 Movie-The Squaw Man-1931
8 Movie-Crash Dive-1943
21 Jack Paar
27 Movie-The Queen Of Spades -English 1950

1AM
5 News-Paul Wilcox

Link to my latest Blog Post..A look at the 1959-60 fal tv season:
(Where I first posted these Schedules today)

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/fall-preview1959-60.html

 

[mjlarochelle]

How early was WJW calling their newscast City Camera? They were still using it as late as 1977, when it became Newscenter 8, which itself lasted until 1995.

 

[Tim L]

How early was WJW calling their newscast City Camera? They were still using it as late as 1977, when it became Newscenter 8, which itself lasted until 1995.

Every Indication is that the name "City Camera" began sometime in 1959. The name came from reporters/ photographers going out into the city and taking snapshots with Polaroid cameras and stapling them to corkboard on the wall, even as the newscast was going on. Warren Guthrie's 11PM "Sohio Reporter" was still considered the major newscast, but he preferred to do national stories instead of local..partly due to the Reporter's "simulcast" into Toledo and Youngstown.

Upon Guthrie's retirement in Mid-late 1963, all the Newscasts began being labled "City Camera" until fall 1977 when Virgil Dominic came in and changed the format and set along with the name change to "NewsCenter 8"

 

[bpatrick]

Virgil Dominic came back to Cleveland from Atlanta;
he co-anchored "Pro News" on WXIA from 1972-76.
Didn't he become g.m. at WJW?

Also, a note about "Masquerade Party": TV Guide may
have listed it as the last show, but it returned on CBS
in late October as a stopgap replacement for "Name That
Tune." By January 1960 it was back on NBC in a Friday-
night slot, which it held until September. Then it wasn't
seen again until the 1974-75 syndicated version with
Richard Dawson as host.

 

[Tim L]

Virgil Dominic came back to Cleveland from Atlanta;
he co-anchored "Pro News" on WXIA from 1972-76.
Didn't he become g.m. at WJW?

Also, a note about "Masquerade Party": TV Guide may
have listed it as the last show, but it returned on CBS
in late October as a stopgap replacement for "Name That
Tune." By January 1960 it was back on NBC in a Friday-
night slot, which it held until September. Then it wasn't
seen again until the 1974-75 syndicated version with
Richard Dawson as host.

I don't know exactly when Virgil Dominic became WJW GM, but he remained there till shortly after the affiliation switch to Fox. He then retired to Florida..He was a consultant last year for awhile at WKYC-TV 3, where he began his Cleveland career in November, 1965. I dony know if he still is there or not.

Masquerade Party looks like one of those shows that can be put together quickly to fill in a programming gap..Not unlike "Candid Camera" or "Amateur Hour"

 

[donnyg]

I was just wondering, in 1959 Toledo already had two TV stations WSPD TV 13 and WTOL 11. WSPD was well established by that time and had Frank Venner and Jim Rudes, and others, so why was a Cleveland newscast simulcast into Toledo, did WTOL pick it up, what was the situation back then?

Donny G

 

[bpatrick]

Virgil Dominic came back to Cleveland from Atlanta;
he co-anchored "Pro News" on WXIA from 1972-76.
Didn't he become g.m. at WJW?

Also, a note about "Masquerade Party": TV Guide may
have listed it as the last show, but it returned on CBS
in late October as a stopgap replacement for "Name That
Tune." By January 1960 it was back on NBC in a Friday-
night slot, which it held until September. Then it wasn't
seen again until the 1974-75 syndicated version with
Richard Dawson as host.

I don't know exactly when Virgil Dominic became WJW GM, but he remained there till shortly after the affiliation switch to Fox. He then retired to Florida..He was a consultant last year for awhile at WKYC-TV 3, where he began his Cleveland career in November, 1965. I dony know if he still is there or not.

Masquerade Party looks like one of those shows that can be put together quickly to fill in a programming gap..Not unlike "Candid Camera" or "Amateur Hour"

I would say that about "Masquerade Party" since the network version (1952-60) aired at various times on all three networks. "Amateur Hour" is one of four shows to have aired on four networks (including DuMont). No, they don't require a lot of lead time.

 

[Tim L]

donnyg:
The situation was that Sohio, from 1951-63, sponsored a newscast called "The Sohio Reporter" from 11-11:10 Monday-Friday. Warren Guthrie only did national news in that time slot..Originating from Channel 8 Cleveland each weeknight, The newscast was fed live to WKBN-27 Youngstown and WSPD-13, Toledo.

After Warren Guthrie at 11:10, 8,13 and 27 would have their own local news.

Standard Oil, which Sohio was part of, appears to have sponsored other similar newscasts, such as Esso Reporter, etc..

 

[oldiesfan6479]

The situation was that Sohio, from 1951-63, sponsored a newscast called "The Sohio Reporter" from 11-11:10 Monday-Friday. Warren Guthrie only did national news in that time slot..Originating from Channel 8 Cleveland each weeknight, The newscast was fed live to WKBN-27 Youngstown and WSPD-13, Toledo.

My book source (Doris) for DST reveals that, for the Sohio newscast years
of 1951-1963, while both Cleveland and Youngstown went on EDT in the
summer, Toledo did not until 1961. I assume Toledo's reluctance through
the 1950s was due to its proximity to DST-less Detroit.

What happened with Toledo TV in the summers of 1958-1960? (1958 being
the first DST period where the networks offered a one-hour delayed feed of
the entire broadcast day to EST/CST areas.)

If WSPD-TV Toledo simply went to "early prime" (6:30-10 EST, late news hole
at 10 EST), they could air the Sohio feed live from 10-10:10 EST. But what if
they used the special delayed feed? Did they record the incoming newscast at
10 EST for airing at 11 EST?