Retro:Cleveland Thursday Night March 1, 1951

[TimL]

Source:Canton Repository

WNBK 4 NBC

5PM NBC Comics
5:15 Panhandle Pete
5:30 Howdy Doody
6PM Cactus Jim
6:30 Bryon Wade
6:45 Today's News
6:50 Around The House
7PM Kukla/Fran/Ollie
7:30 John Conte
7:45 Camel News Caravan-Swayze
8PM You Bet Your Life
8:30 Peter Lind Hayes
9PM Jack Haley-Nat King Cole is a Guest
10PM Martin Kane Private Eye
10:30 NBC Sportsreel
11PM Broadway Open House

WEWS 5 CBS

5PM Uncle Jake-Played by Gene Carroll
5:30 Dinner Platter-Music
6:30 Dorothy Fuldheim
6:45 You Name It
7PM The Stork Club
7:15 Party Time
7:30 CBS News-Edwards
7:45 Faye Emerson
8PM Stop The Music-ABC
9PM Holiday Hotel-ABC-Kitty Carlisle, "Singing Star" Is Guest
9:30 Big Town-CBS
10PM Truth Or Consequences-CBS
10:30 Roller Derby-ABC
11:15 Film Short
11:30 News
11:35 Midnight Movie(The way it was listed-No Mivie titles)

WXEL 9 DuMont/ABC

5PM Lucky Pup (Apparently CBS but moved to ABC later in 1951 as Foodini The Great according to a Google Search)
5:15 Chuck Wagon
6PM Small Fry Club-DuMont
6:30 Sports Desk
6:45 Evening News
7PM Captain Video-DuMont
7:30 Eloise..The Stars
7:45 World Of Yesterday
8PM Burns And Allen-CBS
8:30 Show Goes On-CBS
9PM Ellery Queen-DuMont

Note-I found at a Family Dollar Store a 4 DVD- 32 show set put out under the TV Guide name..Various shows were in the set including some Public Domain Shows that you find anywhere. But there are some real rarities on this set..Including a DuMont Ellery Queen Episode from November 1951 with Kaiser-Frazer car commercials included..Picked it up for $5.00 the other day.

9:30 Blind Date-ABC
10PM Life Begins at 80-ABC
10:30 Theater (Possibly Nash Airflyte-CBS)
11PM Wrestling
12:30 Sign-Off

 

[mjlarochelle]

> WEWS 5 CBS

> 6:30 Dorothy Fuldheim
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Wasn't she a news anchor? Seems hard to believe there was a female news anchor in Cleveland in 1951 if that is the case, considering that across Lake Erie in London there were protests when the station there got its first female anchor 35 years later.

 

[TimL]

> > WEWS 5 CBS
>
> > 6:30 Dorothy Fuldheim
> ----------
> Wasn't she a news anchor? Seems hard to believe there was a
> female news anchor in Cleveland in 1951 if that is the case,
> considering that across Lake Erie in London there were
> protests when the station there got its first female anchor
> 35 years later.
>


Apparently early on, Dorothy mixed anchoring with commentary, eventually doing all commentary. She was with WEWS for about 37 years and retired after having a stroke on the air in late July 1984. A little more at this link to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.

http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=FD<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by TimL on 07/02/05 03:49 AM.</FONT></P>

 

[mjlarochelle]

> Apparently early on, Dorothy mixed anchoring with
> commentary, eventually doing all commentary. She was with
> WEWS for about 37 years and retired after having a stroke
> on the air in late July 1984. A little more at this link to
> the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.
------------
On the air...ouch. That must've traumatized a few viewers.

 

[TimL]

Re: Dorothy Fuldheim

Another link with more career detail:

http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=590

Very detailed analysis of Ms. Fuldheim and her accomplishments and reporting/commentary style..with much more detail on her career by Russell J. Cook of Bethany College.


http://www.bethanycollege.edu/rcook/research/htm/fuldheim.html

(caution: very long and detailed)

In this article it said The day she had the stroke She was interviewing President Reagan..(footnote used in the article below)

58 Dorothy Fuldheim's final broadcast was a taped interview by satellite connection of President Ronald Reagan on July 27, 1984, which she completed while shaking off a stroke. Seifullah and Strassmeyer, "Dorothy Fuldheim" Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 4, 1989, sec. A, p. 2.