Retro:Cleveland Sunday, February 5, 1950

[TimL]

From:Cleveland Plain Dealer

WTAM 1100 NBC

8AM News-Music
8:15 Religion in the News
8:30 String Quartet
9AM World News
9:15 Wormwood Forest
9:30 Bach Aria Group
9:45 Cameos In Music
10AM Radio Pulpit
10:30 Family Time
11AM Ranger Joe
11:15 Art Museum (Presumably Cleveland)
11:30 News Highlights
11:45 Solitaire Time
Noon Silver Strings
12:30 Eternal Light
1PM America United
1:30 Chicago Univ. Roundtable
2PM NBC Theater
3PM One Man's Family
3:30 Quiz Kids
4PM Edwin C. Hill
4:15 Facts Unlimited'
4:30 Cleveland Orchestra
5:30 Harvest Of Stars
6PM Catholic Hour
6:30 Henry Morgan
7PM Christopher London
7:30 Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show
8PM Sam Spade
8:30 Theater Guild
9:30 Familiar Music (American Album Of)
10PM Eddie Cantor
10:30 Bob Crosby
11PM News
11:15 Screen Writers Award
11:30 Film Critics Award
Midnight News/Music
12:15 Music You Want
12:55 News

WHK 1420 Mutual

8AM Und. Radio Church
8:30 Gospel Songs
8:45 Radio Altar
9AM Voice Of Prophecy
9:30 Negro Hour
10AM Bible Class (Possibly Radio Bible Class-DeHaan)
10:30 Back To God (Hour)
11AM Guest Star (One of several Celebrity filler programs put out by Government Agencies-Provided Free to stations)
11:15 Your Bible Speaks
11:30 Popular Music
Noon John T. Flynn
12:15 Oberlin Y's Artists
12;30 Lutheran Hour
1PM News-Walton
1:15 Bill Lang
1:30 Theater Of The Air
2:30 Irish Program
3PM Radio Warblers
3:15 Music Masters
3:30 Juvenile Jury
4PM Hopalong Cassidy
4:30 Martin Kane
5PM The Shadow
5;30 True Detective
6PM Roy Rogers
6:30 Nick Carter
7PM The Falcon
7:30 The Saint
8PM Mediation Board
8:30 John Steele
9PM Sylvan Levin
9:15 Rebuttal
9:30 Deems Taylor
10PM Crime Doesn't Pay
10:30 Pentecostal Church
11PM News Final
11:15 To Ne Announced
11:55 News
Midnight Eddy Howard
12:30 Dick Jurgens
12:55 News

WGAR 1220 CBS

8AM Italian Program
8:30 Songs of Prauge
9AM Hour Of Worship
9:30 Slovak Program
10AM Hungarian Program
10:30 Slovene Program
11AM News-Newsmakers
11:15 St. Prancis Hour
11:30 Polish Program
Noon Czech Program
12:30 Fairytale Theater
1PM Rudolph Ringwall
1:30 News
1:45 Karaleers
2PM Western Reserve Roundtable
2:30 Galen Drake
2:45 Jack Sterling
3PM New York Philharmonic
4:30 Record Parade
5PM More Out Life
5:30 Strike It Rich
6PM Family Hour
6:30 Our Miss Brooks
7PM Jack Benny
7:30 Amos N Andy
8PM Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy
8:30 Red Skelton
9PM Meet Corliss Archer
9:30 Horace Heidt
10PM Contented Hour
10:30 Take Your Word
11PM News
11:15 More Out Life
11:30 Words With Music
Midnight News-Sign Off

WJW 850 ABC

8AM News
8:15 Babe Ruth Story
8:30 Musical Gems
9AM Good Neighbors
9:15 Marine Story
9:30 Pulpit Voices
10AM Message Of Israel
10:30 Southernaires
11AM Guest Star
11:15 National Guard
11:30 Hour Of Faith
Noon Wizard Of Music
12:15 News, Weather
12:30 Piano Playhouse
1PM Ask Jim(my) Dudley
1:15 canary Pet Show
1:30 Words And Music
2PM Week Around The World
2:30 Mr. President
3PM Changing World
3:15 Wally's Show Wagon
4PM Voices That Live
4:30 Milton Cross
5PM Think Fast
5:30 Greatest Story (Ever Told)
6PM Drew Pearson
6:15 Today's Events
6:30 With the Girls
7PM Where There's Music
7:30 Mr. Malone
8PM Stop The Music
9PM Walter Winchell
9:15 Louella Parsons
9:30 Chance Of A Lifetime
10PM Cleveland Barons/Providence Reds AHL Hockey
(This May have been the 3rd period live or taped highlights)
10:45 Jimmy Fidler
11PM News
11:15 Books that Live
11:30 Ambassador Hotel Orchestra
Midnight Masterworks
12;45 Sign Off

WSRS 1490

8AM Favorite Hymns
8:15 Church Of Christ
8:30 News/Music
8:45 Gospel Light
9AM Croatian Music
9:30 News/Music
9:45 Marine Band
10AM Guest Star
10:15 Chordettes
10:30 News
10:45 Hough Ave. Baptist Church
Noon Here's To Veterans
12:15 Italian Program
12:45 Syrian/Lebanese Music
1PM Friends Of Israel
1:15 Pop Tunes
1:30 News/Music
1:45 Czech Music
2:30 German Aires
3PM Jim Doney-Became much better known for hosting a weekly, then daily travelogue show called "Adventure Road" on WJW-TV 8 from about 1963-75.
4:30 Greek Program
5PM Polish Hour
5:30 Italian Music
6PM Slovenian Music
6:30 Slovenian Program
7PM Italian Music
8PM Music Calvacade
8:30 Rosary Hour
9:30 News
9:35 Revival Hour (Maybe Old Fashioned Revival-Fuller)
10:30 News
10:35 Proudly We Hail
11PM Sunday Varieties
11:30 News-Sunday Varieties
Midnight News
12:05 Sign-Off

WERE 1300

8AM Prayer N Bible
8:15 Bible College
8:30 Christian Science
9AM Polish Hour
10AM Italian Hour
10:30 Bohemian Hour
11AM St. John's Cathedral
Noon News
12:15 Slovak Hour
1PM Catholic News/Views
1:15 Hungarian Hour
2PM Concert Hall
2:30 WERE Pretending
3PM Dental Day
3:30 Salon Serenade
4PM Jack The Bellboy
5PM Croatian Hour
5:45 News
6PM Menu Musicale
6:15 La Traviata
8:30 Music Calvacade
8:55 News
9PM Call For Classics
10PM Past Is Present
10:15 Silver Strings
10:30 Eleanor Healy
10:45 News
11PM Drifting On a Cloud
11:30 Marcane Ballroom
Midnight Sign-Off

WJMO-1540

8AM News/ Music
8:15 Melody Time
9AM News
9:15 UnNamed
9:30 Jewel Singers
10AM News-W. Music
10:15 Polka Tunes
11AM News/Music
11:15 German/American
Noon News/Music W.
12:15 Hungarian Music
12:30 Polish Music
1PM News/Music W (I think weather)
1:15 Italian Music
1:30 St. Clair Avenue
2PM News
2:05 Italian Program
2:30 Czech Music
3PM News
3:05 Slovene Music'
3:30 Guest Star
3:45 Here's To Vets
4PM News/Music
4:15 Top Ten
5PM WJMO Presents
5:45 Sign-Off

The Following FM Stations were listed (Calls and Frequency only)(Current Calls)

WHK-FM 100.7 (WMMS)
WEWS-FM 102.1 (WDOK)
WJW-FM 104.1 (WQAL)
WSRS-FM 95.3 (WFHM-95.5)
WCUO-FM 103.3 (WCRF-Moody Bible)
WERE-FM 98.5 (WNCX)
WTAM-FM 105.7 (WMJI)
WBOE-FM 90.3 (WCPN)

As Cleveland Had many large ethnic communities, Ethnic shows were relevant especially on Sunday..Eventually WXEN 106.5 and WZAK 93.1 would come on the air and program ethnic shows 7 days a week into the 1970's..Ethnic Programs are now limited to a few hours a week on small rimshot AM's and college FM's.

 

[bpatrick]

> From:Cleveland Plain Dealer
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> WHK 1420 Mutual
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> 5PM The Shadow
> 5;30 True Detective
> 6PM Roy Rogers
> 6:30 Nick Carter
> 7PM The Falcon
> 7:30 The Saint
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> A lineup that's probably still
fondly remembered by anyone who
was a kid in 1950.
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> WGAR 1220 CBS
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> 7PM Jack Benny
> 7:30 Amos N Andy
> 8PM Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy
> 8:30 Red Skelton
> 9PM Meet Corliss Archer
> 9:30 Horace Heidt
> 10PM Contented Hour
> 10:30 Take Your Word
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Around 1950 CBS overtook NBC as the number-
one radio network (it wouldn't do so in
television until about 1955). This lineup
is a large part of the reason why: four
shows--Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Edgar
Bergen/Charlie McCarthy, and Red Skelton--
changed networks in Bill Paley's "raid" on
NBC in 1948-49 (George Burns and Gracie Allen
came back to CBS after several years on NBC).
This was definitely "must-hear radio," although
because of the inroads of television, the ratings
weren't what they would have been even five years
earlier.
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> WJW 850 ABC
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> 8PM Stop The Music
> 9PM Walter Winchell

ABC's two biggest hits in that era. Stop The
Music ended Fred Allen's radio career; ABC placed
its high-stakes game show against him and Edgar
Bergen (NBC) in March 1948. By 1949 Bergen had taken
his show off the air temporarily, to resurface on
CBS; Allen ended his show in June 1949.

For those not familiar with Stop The Music, it was
a forerunner of Name That Tune with some differences.
The orchestra would play a tune and host Bert Parks
would call a listener. If that person could identify
the song, he or she would win a small prize and the
chance to identify a much more difficult and obscure
number for a showcase of prizes whose total value might
exceed $30,000 (in 1948 dollars). It came out that the
people whom Parks called were notified on Sunday afternoon:
one of the producers would call each one and tell them to
be sure to be home and listening that night. The FCC tried,
in 1949, to get Stop The Music taken off the air for being
in violation of lottery laws; it argued that the show met
the three elements of a lottery: prize, chance (of being called),
and consideration (the listener had to give up something of
value--time--to listen and obtain information necessary in order
to win). The Supreme Court overruled the FCC in 1954, and Stop
The Music, which had been off radio and television since 1952,
returned for two more years. Little did anyone know that Twenty-
One and The $64,000 Question lay just ahead.

Walter Winchell was the premier gossip columnist of his day,
although he's probably more familiar to baby boomers as narrator
of The Untouchables. People believed anything Winchell said,
and he used his power sometimes recklessly, getting people
blacklisted for alleged Communist leanings (he learned that,
as a joke, Lucille Ball had registered to vote Communist in
1936 and made her life a nightmare for a week in 1953, before
she was able to prove to Congressional investigators that she'd
had no intention of voting Communist then or ever, but had done
what she did to please her eccentric grandfather).
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> WSRS 1490
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> 10:15 Chordettes

Especially popular at the time as regulars on Arthur
Godfrey's morning show and his Wednesday-night Arthur
Godfrey And His Friends. He later replaced them with
the McGuire Sisters.
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> I see a number of shows, such as Silver Strings,
the Southernaires, and the University of Chicago
Roundtable, that were staples of Sunday daytime
as far back as the 1930s. But runs of 20 years
or more were not at all uncommon in radio.
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[JohnnyMorganWXJX]

> The Following FM Stations were listed (Calls and Frequency
> only)(Current Calls)
>
> WHK-FM 100.7 (WMMS)
> WEWS-FM 102.1 (WDOK)
> WJW-FM 104.1 (WQAL)
> WSRS-FM 95.3 (WFHM-95.5)
> WCUO-FM 103.3 (WCRF-Moody Bible)
> WERE-FM 98.5 (WNCX)
> WTAM-FM 105.7 (WMJI)
> WBOE-FM 90.3 (WCPN)

Good work, Tim. One small correction: WSRS-FM 95.3 did NOT become 95.5. That was a new allocation in 1961-2 when WDGO signed on.

WSRS became WCUY 95.3 (still sister to WSRS-WJMO, owned by United Broadcasting and Richard Eaton), and moved to 92.3 in 1961. Probably to make way for (result in?) WDGO's allocation at 95.5.

 

[TimL]

> > The Following FM Stations were listed (Calls and Frequency
>
> > only)(Current Calls)
> >
> > WHK-FM 100.7 (WMMS)
> > WEWS-FM 102.1 (WDOK)
> > WJW-FM 104.1 (WQAL)
> > WSRS-FM 95.3 (WFHM-95.5)
> > WCUO-FM 103.3 (WCRF-Moody Bible)
> > WERE-FM 98.5 (WNCX)
> > WTAM-FM 105.7 (WMJI)
> > WBOE-FM 90.3 (WCPN)
>
> Good work, Tim. One small correction: WSRS-FM 95.3 did NOT
> become 95.5. That was a new allocation in 1961-2 when WDGO
> signed on.
>
> WSRS became WCUY 95.3 (still sister to WSRS-WJMO, owned by
> United Broadcasting and Richard Eaton), and moved to 92.3 in
> 1961. Probably to make way for (result in?) WDGO's
> allocation at 95.5.

Thanks for the kind words Johnny. I was aware of WDGO but did not know it's timeframe..Based on the info I had 95.3 to 95.5 seemed like a fair assumption to make. What I wonder about is the programming on most of these stations. Aside from those with AM sister stations which at least partially simulcast their AM. The One I really wonder about is WCUO-FM..How long did they last and what was their programming?..By November 1958 WCRF was founded so WCUO had to be off quite a while..