Retro:Cleveland Thursday Daytime December 18, 1952

[TimL]

Source:Cleveland Press
Listings were in an up-down grid format Listings are exactly as printed except where I put parentheses to give the more official show title

WNBK 4 NBC

7AM Dave Garroway (Today)
9AM Feature Film
10AM Home Cooking
10:30 Charming Children
11AM Idea Shop
11:30 Ernie Benedict
Noon NewsNoontime)Comics
12:30 Living Fashion
1PM Feature Film
2:30 Chef Lorenzo
3PM Big Payoff
3:30 Welcome Travelers
4PM Kate Smith
5PM Hawkins Falls
5:15 Gabby Hayes
5:30 Howdy Doody

WEWS 5 CBS

8:30 News:On Wings Of Song
9AM Western Reserve University Telecourse
9:30 Paige Palmer
10AM Arthur Godfrey
11AM (There's) One In Every Family
11:30 Strike It Rich
Noon Bride And Groom
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 News
1PM Women's Window
1:30 Garry Moore
2PM Vanity Fair
2:30 Guiding Light
2:45 Art Linkletter
3:15 Mixing Bowl
3:45 Western Movie
4:45 Time For Beany (Puppets)
5PM Uncle Jake (Gene Carroll)
5:30 Western Movie

WXEL 9 DuMont/ABC

10:45 Film Shorts
11AM Bargain Bar
11:30 Jonathan Story
Noon News
12:15 Lazy Listening
12:30 Film Shorts
1PM Feature Film
2:45 Film:Quiz
3PM Alice Weston
3:45 Paul Weston (Probably related..would be too much of a coincidence not to be)
4PM Handwriting
4:30 King Jack('s) (Toy Box)
5PM Santa Claus
5:15 By Jupiter
5:30 Desert Deputy-Western shorts

This was still early for WXEL-TV..almost three years on the air and everything other than filmed movies, shorts in daytime was all live and local..DuMont and ABC had no network progrsms at this time

 

[KMRichards]

> This was still early for WXEL-TV..almost three years on the
> air and everything other than filmed movies, shorts in
> daytime was all live and local..DuMont and ABC had no
> network progrsms at this time

According to the Castleman & Podrazik book, DuMont did have something resembling a daytime schedule in December 1952:

12:00pm Take The Break (variety)
12:30 Broadway Matinee (variety) M-W-F/Ethel Thorsen Show (fashion) T-Th
12:45 Noontime News
1:00 Ladies Date (game)
1:30 local
3:00 Paul Dixon Show (musical variety), which was the last surviving DuMont daytime program, remaining until the network began crumbling to dust in 1955
4:00 local

Maybe there was no live interconnect to Cleveland for DuMont and these shows weren't kinescoped?

You're right about ABC, though. They had no network daytime programming until the fall of 1953.<P ID="signature">______________


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