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Retro: Dallas-Fort Worth, Saturday, December 3, 1949

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(first day on air for KRLD-TV)
Dallas Morning News

KBTV Channel 8
1:05 PM Football Previews
2:00 PM Notre Dame vs. SMU
5:00 PM Test Pattern
6:15 PM Time for Beanie
6:30 PM Toyland
6:50 PM Film Featurette
6:53 PM Stanford’s Preview
7:00 PM Serial
7:20 PM Newsreel
7:30 PM Armchair Traveler
7:40 PM Western film
8:40 PM Boxing from New York
9:40 PM Newsreel
9:50 PM Sign off

WBAP-TV Channel 5

12:45 PM Test Pattern
1:00 PM Football Classics
1:30 PM Interviews
1:40 PM SMU-Notre Dame game
5:45 PM Junior Theater, films
6:45 PM Texas News
7:00 PM William Barclay Presents
7:30 PM Hollywood Screen Test (ABC)
8:00 PM Hayloft
8:30 PM Western film
9:30 PM News Final
9:35 PM Weather Tele-Facts
9:40 PM Sign off.

KRLD-TV Channel 4
12 Noon Test Patterns
12:30 PM Pays to Be Ignorant (CBS)
1:00 PM South with the Sun
1:20 PM Sonny Kendis (CBS)
1:30 PM Football Previews
1:40 PM SMU-Notre Dame
4:30 PM Football Roundup
4:40 PM Sign off.

SMU football was big even then.
 
...the most interesting of the three schedules is KRLD-TV/4's, with only afternoon hours and two kinescoped CBS shows, one of which was the 10-minute-long Sonny Kendis Show (aired live on the network at 7:45 PM Eastern/6:45 Central on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays). And while KBTV/8 has a boxing program (probably an hour of DuMont's Boxing from Sunnyside Gardens, also kinnied from 9:30 ET/8:30 CT Thursdays), there's no wrestling program in sight on a Saturday in Big D - ever think you'd live to hear that observation? ;D - even though DuMont's Wrestling from Marigold would have been fed live at 10:00 ET/9:00 CT, during KBTV's last hour on the air that day...
 
I don't think there was such a thing as networks "feeding live" to Texas just yet. I don't believe the network lines extended to this area 'til 1952. I'll try to find THAT article soon.
 
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