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Retro:Cleveland, Ohio Friday, February 18, 1949

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Tim L

WNBK-4 NBC

10AM Test Pattern
4:55 Bulletin Board
5PM To Be Announced
5:15 The Last Frontier
5:30 Howdy Doody
6PM WNBK Presents
6:45 Bob Reed Show
7PM Kukla, Fran and Ollie
7:30 America Song
7:45 Camel News Caravan
8PM Admiral Broadway Revue (NBC and DuMont both showed the Revue)
9PM Show Me This
9:30 Show Time
10PM Cavalcade Of Sports
11PM Chesterfield Supper Club-Perry Como
11:15 Program Previews

WEWS-5 DuMont/CBS/ABC

10AM and 2PM Test Pattern
3:30 Test Pattern-Music
4PM-Distaff-Women's Issues
5PM Film
5:30 Uncle Jake's House-Gene Carroll
6PM Small Fry Club-DuMont
6:30 Lucky Pup-CBS
6:45 Sports Show
7PM News
7:15 Wren's Nest (early sitcom)-ABC
7:30 News-CBS (Douglas Edwards)
7:45 Linn Sheldon Show
8PM Admiral Broadway Revue-DuMont
9PM Break The Bank-ABC
9:30 College Basketball-John Carroll University vs. Xavier (JCU was in Cleveland. As this was shown locally, it may have been at the Cleveland Arena..There would have been no way to televise the game from Cincinnati live)

11PM Coming Attractions

Source:Cleveland Plain Dealer Archives
 
Tim L said:
9:30 College Basketball-John Carroll University vs. Xavier (JCU was in Cleveland. As this was shown locally, it may have been at the Cleveland Arena..There would have been no way to televise the game from Cincinnati live)
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It was at the Arena, and was the nightcap of a doubleheader. Xavier won the game 78-60 before a "sparse" crowd of 2,219. The first game (obviously not shown) was a local matchup: Baldwin Wallace vs. Case (now Case Western Reserve) Tech.
 
Just wondering if this John Carroll - Xavier game may have been the first (or at least one of the first) college basketball games televised in Ohio - at least by a commercial station? Is there anything about who the announcer or announcers were or other related information?
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
Just wondering if this John Carroll - Xavier game may have been the first (or at least one of the first) college basketball games televised in Ohio - at least by a commercial station? Is there anything about who the announcer or announcers were or other related information?
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WEWS had been already on the air over a year at this point. I'll look it up, but there may have been games televised the previous winter. An educated guess at an announcer might be Bob Neal, who later was known for Covering The Browns, Indians and Hockey Barons on either radio or TV.
 
Thanks, Tim.

That's right. WEWS did sign on some time before that. Any information is appreciated.

I wonder if that was the first time that a Xavier basketball team was on TV (even if it was not seen in the Cincinnati area). That 1949 game with John Carroll was the first time the two schools met in basketball.
 
WEWS broadcast some games a few months earlier in December 1948. The only other station on the air at the time was WNBK (now WKYC), which has always been the NBC affiliate.
 
The earliest game televised was Fenn College/John Carroll December 1, 1948 on WEWS. Danny Landau, who was a local sportcaster at stations WSRS-1490, WHK-1420, WCUO-103.3 FM, and WERE-1300 from roughly 1948-58, did play by play with no color man. Landau did local boxing, wrestling and city high school and college sports as well on radio..JCU defeated Fenn 87-47 in a game at the Cleveland Arena..Fenn College was the forerunner of today's Cleveland State University..
 
Tim L said:
WNBK-4 NBC

11PM Chesterfield Supper Club-Perry Como
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Given the era I'm assuming that would have been live? Late night for Perry.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Tim L said:
WNBK-4 NBC

11PM Chesterfield Supper Club-Perry Como
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Given the era I'm assuming that would have been live? Late night for Perry.
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The late night stretch (which began the previous month) only lasted until June. When he returned in the Fall, the show was on for 30 minutes on Sundays beginning at 8 p.m.
 
Tim L said:
The earliest game televised was Fenn College/John Carroll December 1, 1948 on WEWS. Danny Landau, who was a local sportcaster at stations WSRS-1490, WHK-1420, WCUO-103.3 FM, and WERE-1300 from roughly 1948-58, did play by play with no color man. Landau did local boxing, wrestling and city high school and college sports as well on radio..JCU defeated Fenn 87-47 in a game at the Cleveland Arena..Fenn College was the forerunner of today's Cleveland State University.
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Would Danny Landau then have been the announcer for the John Carroll-Xavier game?
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
Tim L said:
The earliest game televised was Fenn College/John Carroll December 1, 1948 on WEWS.  Danny Landau, who was a local sportcaster at stations WSRS-1490, WHK-1420, WCUO-103.3 FM, and WERE-1300 from roughly 1948-58, did play by play with no color man.  Landau did local boxing, wrestling and city high school and college sports as well on radio..JCU defeated Fenn 87-47 in a game at the Cleveland Arena..Fenn College was the forerunner of today's Cleveland State University.
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Would Danny Landau then have been the announcer for the John Carroll-Xavier game?
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Could have been a simualcast with the audio being used for both radio & TV coverage of the game. That was done here as recently as the early 1980's.
 
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