Retro:Cleveland Friday, September 7, 1951

[Tim L]

Source:Cleveland Plain Dealer with some fill-in information from the Massillon (Ohio) Independent

WNBK-4 NBC

Noon-News-Ed Wallace
12:15 Man on the Street
12:30 Idea Shop
1PM Film Trio
2PM Musical Film (Haley's Daily-Tom Haley)
2:45 By Wade
3PM Miss Susan
3:15 Vacation Wonderlands-"Bavaria"
3:30 Bert Parks
4PM Straw Hat Matinee
5PM Hawkins Falls
5:15 Gabby Hayes
5:30 Howdy Doody
6PM Cactus Jim
6:30 Crusader Rabbit
6:35 Star Spotlight
6:40 Sports Show
6:45 Local News
6:50 Around The House
7PM Kukla, Fran and Ollie
7:30 Roberta Quinlan
7:45 News Caravan
8PM Quiz Kids
8:30 We The People
9PM Big Story
9:30 Aldrich Family
10PM Gillette Cavalcade Of Sports
10:45 Greatest Fights
11PM News-Japan Peace Treaty
1AM Sign-Off

WEWS-5 CBS

7:55 News
8AM Comes The Yawn
8:45 TV Clinic
9AM Beauty For You-Paige Palmer
9:30 Kitchen Clinic
10AM Take Five
10:30 Morning Melodies
11AM Mixing Bowl
11:30 Strike It Rich
Noon Hi Noon
12:30 Twenty Fingers
12:45 Steve Allen
1:30 Garry Moore
2:30 First Hundred Years
2:45 News
2:50 Music Matinee
3:30 Women's Window
4PM Dinner Platter-Bob Dale
5PM Uncle Jake-Gene Carroll
5:30 The Sheldons-Linn&Vivian Sheldon
6PM Musical Film
6:25 Weather
6:30 Dorothy Fuldheim
6:45 Musical Film
7PM Perry Como
7:15 Teepee Roundup-Show title that would be politically incorrect these days-Probably Cleveland Indians/Baseball report

7:30 Douglas Edwards News
7:45 Musical Film
8PM Mama
8:30 Man Against Crime
9PM Film Firsts
10PM Opera Miniature
10:30 Candid Camera-Syndication
11PM Louisville Showboat
11:30 Feature Film
12:30 Night Cap
1AM News

WXEL-9 DuMont/ABC

11AM News
11:05 Soupy Hines (Later known as Soupy Sales)
Noon Egg and I-CBS
12:15 News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Film
1PM Alice Weston
1:30 Village Fair
2:15 Midday Movie
3:30 Around Town
4PM Homemakers
4:30 Darts For Dollars
5PM Raving Beauty
5:15 Cyclone Malone
5:30 Soup's On-Soupy Hines
6:15 Pat Bowman
6:30 Space Cadet-ABC
6:45 News
7PM Captain Video-DuMont
7:30 Say It With Acting-ABC
8PM 20 Questions-DuMont
8:30 Meet Corliss Archer-CBS
9PM Hands Of Destiny-DuMont
9:30 Tales Of Tomorrow-ABC
10PM Cavalcade Of Stars-DuMont
11PM Warren Guthrie News
11:10 Sanford I. Whitman-Today's Top Story
11:15 Japan Peace Treaty
12:30 Sign-Off

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

The Japan Peace Treaty specials were among the first live TV programs to be fed from one coast to the toehr.

In fact, Bell System engineers worked feverishly to have the transcontinental circuit ready for the September 4th opening, where President Truman would welcome the delegates.

After the conference ended, the circuit was not again made available to the networks for about three weeks.

Regular daily use of the transcontinental circuit began on September 29th, 1951 when a college football game between Pittsburgh and Duke in Pittsburgh was broadcast by NBC.

That evening, I suspect that several network prime-time shows would be seen live coast-to-coast (although some may have been kinescoped for West Coast replay three hours later).

 

[Bob1370]

WXEL (9) listed;
11:05 Soupy Hines (Later known as Soupy Sales)

Don't know how rushed he was or how long a crosstown drive it was back then...but Soupy was holding down the morning drive show at WJW (AM 850) during those years and he got the TV show as a result of his growing popularity on radio. He had to be on the air on TV just a little over an hour after his radio show ended.

Within a few years, George Storer owned both WJW and WXEL, which moved to channel 8 and became WJW-TV, but by that time Soupy had moved on to WXYZ-TV in Detroit and the start of a long association with the American Broadcasting Co.

 

[wbhist]

In those days WXEL's studios were located in Parma, they weren't in central Cleveland until after Storer assumed control of the station (and then changed the TV station calls to match the radio outlet).

 

[Tim L]

From looking at the radio listings, Soupy had morning (roughly 7-9 AM) on WJW and afternoon radio shows..with the TV shows in between,,WXEL was in Parma and WJW was at 619 Euclid Avenue downtown..He had quite a bit of commuting I am sure..He probably had plenty of time after the morning show, as he didnt have to be at WXEL till say 10:30 or so (station signed on at 11)

 

[bpatrick]

That was the end of the first week of "Search For Tomorrow,"
the first TV soap to hit pay dirt after a few false starts. "Love
Of Life" would be the second, starting September 24, and "Guiding
Light" would add a television version to the one already airing on
radio on June 30, 1952 (and go on to a total of 72 years dating back
to 1937).

"Search" and "Love Of Life" didn't do too badly either. "Love Of Life"
lasted 28+ years, ending on February 1, 1980, while the "Search" came
to an end on December 26, 1986, after a run of 35+ years and a change
of networks from CBS to NBC in 1982. (I still remember the last scene on
"Search": Jo (Mary Stuart) is looking into the evening sky and pal Stu Bergman
(Larry Haines) asks her what she's searching for. "Tomorrow," she answers, "and
I can't wait!".)

 

[Tim L]

Interesting tidbit relating to the soaps..Hawkins Falls, which was earlier in prime time, began in daytime on NBC in April 1951, and would last till July 1, 1955..My latest blog post features this soap..(along with 3 episodes)

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2012/08/hawkins-falls-television-noveltvs-first.html

At the time of its demise, it had been the longest running TV Soap up to that time..