Retro:Cleveland January 28, 1949

[Tim L]

Source:Cleveland Plain Dealer

I thought it would be interesting to compare Cleveland to the New York listings that Bob1370 had yesterday:

WNBK-4 NBC
WEWS-5 CBS/DuMont/ABC

10AM
5 Test Pattern

2PM
5 Test Pattern

5PM
5 Test Pattern-Music

5:25
4 Bulletin Board

5:30
4 Howdy Doody
5 Uncle Jake's House-Gene Carroll

6PM
4-To Be Announced
5 Small Fry Club-DuMont

6:30
5 Lucky Pup-CBS

6:45
4 Bob Reed Show
5 Russ Hodges-DuMont

7PM
4 Kukla, Fran and Ollie
5 Telesports Digest-Syndicated Through WATV-13/MCA-TV (13 had it an hour later)..Interestingly, many episodes of this program survive..

7:30
4 American Songs
5 News-Douglas Edwards-CBS

7:45
5 Tune Time

7:50
4 Newsreel-John Cameron Swayze

8PM
4,5 Admiral Broadway Revue-Premiere (NBC/DuMont-This may have had to to with WDTV Pittsburgh)

9PM
4 Edward Wallace-WNBK News Commentator
5 Break The Bank-ABC

9:30
4 (Your) Show Time-NBC
5 Joe Hasel Sports-ABC

9:45
5 Earl Wrightson-CBS (on delay?)

10PM
4 Cavalcade Of Sports
5 Bowling Tournament

10:45
5 Wrestling

11PM
4 Program Previews

Midnight
5 Sign-Off

 

[bpatrick]

According to Castleman and Podrazik, "Admiral Broadway Revue"
was carried on both NBC and DuMont (to maximize coverage--it was
seen in every city with television, even if on kinescope); it was
supposed to be DuMont's passport to instant credibility among the networks, being
a fairly big-budget variety show (Sid Caesar's first series, BTW).
Instead, the public perceived it as an NBC show, at least in markets
where only one station aired it, so DuMont did not get the credibility it was
looking for. One former DuMont exec, interviewed for Jeff Kiseloff's "The Box,"
felt the real beginning of the end for DuMont came three years later, when
Jackie Gleason moved to CBS.

Earl Wrightson's show aired on ABC Saturdays 7:45-8 PM from September 1948
to January 1949, moving to Mondays 7:15-7:30 from January to April 1949.