...the Chicago station was still WBKB/7; it wouldn't become WLS-TV until the Autumn of 1968...cwf1701 said:
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RETRO: CLEVELAND MARKET, NOVEMBER 22, 1963
- Thread starter BD Sullivan
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Joeybabe, I have the Nov. 23rd Cleveland Plain Dealer. The One O'Clock Club on Channel 5 was being broadcast live, according to the paper, when it was interrupted by a network news bulletin stating that the president had been "cut down" by gunfire in Texas. Live programming returned briefly with Dorothy Fuldheim, according to writer Don Robertson, appearing near tears. A harpist was in the studio that day and she played music briefly before the network took over for good.
brucecuth said:
This makes me wonder (perhaps fodder for a new thread?) about other stations that were in the midst of live local programming when the news broke. (There must have been a few.) WFAA is, of course, the most well-known example, primarily because the abrupt switch from women's fashion show to Jay Watson's breathless first bulletin was preserved on tape.
It's not TV, but for me the most chilling "live" interruption preserved is the audio clip of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Erich Leinsdorf abruptly informing a matinee audience of the assassination, evoking a huge collective gasp, following which he instructs the orchestra to play the Funeral March from Beethoven's third symphony.
Stanislav said:
Something that was tragically repeated when Robert Kennedy announced to an unaware Indianapolis crowd that Martin Luther King had been assassinated.
Stanislav said:
I remember WTVS(56) aired a clip where a school program (World History) was interrupted to make the announcement that JFK was shot (right after ABC radio broke the story). It can also be assumed that many of the stations that now make up PBS was airing live school programs. WGN was transmitting the Bozo show when the news broke.
cwf1701 said:
Just a question on this. Wasn't Bozo a morning show or was it in the early afternoon in November, 1963? The news on the shooting would have broken about 12:35 P.M. Chicago Time, wouldn't it?
...WGN-TV/9's morning cartoon show was Ray Rayner & His Friends, which had debuted in 1962. Rayner also played Oliver O. Oliver on Bozo's Circus, which was the Noon hour program on WGN-TV the day of the assassination...azumanga said:
Stanislav said:
On WGN radio, there was this:
"Orion Samuelson was on the air as host of "Country Fair" (forerunner of "The Noon Show") when he delivered WGN's first bulletin about Kennedy's assassination in Dallas."
As far as TV, it might have been similar to what many cable networks did on 9/11, simulcast a network feed. The situation certainly called for it, and it's not as if the networks were worried about ratings (since there was no advertising).
Joeybabe25 asked: said:
The only reason video (a "news bulletin" slide) still exists of the first CBS News television bulletin of the JFK assassination was that "As The World Turns" was still being broadcast live and was bring simultaneously videotaped for playback to the West Coast two hours later (12:30 P.M. PST, or 3:30 EST).
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