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Retro: Detroit/Toledo/Lansing Mon, Aug 13, 1956

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Bluenoser

from TV Guide-Detroit edition

WJBK 2-CBS Detroit
6:50 Meditations
6:55 On the Farm Front
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Cartoon Classroom
8:45 News/Weather
9:00 Of All Things (at the DNC in Chicago)
9:30 Arthur Godfrey Time
10:30 Strike It Rich
11:00 Valiant Lady
11:15 Love of Life
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
noon Democratic National Convention (opening session from Chicago's Imperial Ampitheatre)
2:00 Big Payoff
2:30 Bob Crosby
3:00 Brighter Day
3:15 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 4 O'Clock Theater "Gift of the Devil"
4:30 As the World Turns
5:00 Early Show "Call of the Klondike"
6:00 Linkletter's Kids
6:15 News
6:25 Weather
6:30 Robin Hood "The Sheriff's Boots"
7:00 Burns & Allen
7:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (after this show, Godfrey leaves for summer vacation, with Bob Crosby holding down the fort til September 17th)
8:00 Charlie Farrell
8:30 Democratic National Convention (speakers: Tennessee Gov. Frank Clement, Mrs. FDR, Paul M. Butler, and JFK (who was then a Senator), who narrates a doc on the history of the Party)
10:30 San Francisco Beat "Mike Fielding Case"
11:00 News
11:15 Weather
11:20 Les Paul & Mary Ford
11:25 Nightwatch Theater "The Creeper"
12:50 Weather/Meditations

WWJ 4-NBC Detroit
6:50 Today's Farm Report
7:00 Today (from the DNC, Today in Detroit at :25/:55)
9:00 Romper Room
9:55 Professor Pat
10:00 Home (from the DNC)
11:00 Tic Tac Dough
11:30 It Could Be You
noon Democratic National Convention
2:00 Matinee Theater "Fiddlin' Man"
3:00 Queen for a Day (Ben Alexander pinch-hits for Jack Bailey)
3:45 Modern Romances
4:00 It's Always Jan "Pat's Romance" (series return)
4:30 Cactus Dan
5:30 Western Marshal
6:00 News/Sports
6:15 Weather
6:20 Dolores
6:30 Gordon MacRae
6:45 NBC News (from the DNC)
7:00 Ernie Kovacs (guests Yma Sumac and Boris Karloff)
8:00 Medic "When I Was Young"
8:30 Democratic National Convention
mid. News
12:15 Little Show "A Cowboy's Lament"
12:30 Dark Encounter "The Living Idol"
1:00 News

WJIM 6-NBC/CBS/ABC Lansing
7:00 Today
9:00 Of All Things
9:30 Ding Dong School
10:00 Home
11:00 Copper Kettle
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
noon Democratic National Convention
2:00 Matinee Theater "Fiddlin' Man"
3:00 Queen for a Day
3:45 Modern Romances
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Movie (Western)
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Father Knows Best "Spirit of Youth"
6:30 Gordon MacRae
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Frontier
7:30 Voice of Firestone (soloist Brian Sullivan)
8:00 Medic "When I Was Young"
8:30 Democratic National Convention

WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit
7:30 Northern Michigan
8:00 Little Rascals
8:30 Wixie Wonderland
9:00 Robin & Ricky
9:30 Cartoon Comics
10:00 Movie "All-American Coed"
11:00 Story Studio
11:30 Irwins
noon Democratic National Convention
3:00 Afternoon Film Festival "Here Come the Huggetts"
4:00 My Little Margie
4:30 Cowboy G-Men "Empty Mailbags"
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Top Secret
6:15 ABC News (from the DNC)
6:30 Bold Journey "Tuna Pilot"
7:00 Dotty Mack
7:30 Voice of Firestone
8:00 Jumbo Theater "Brief Affair"
8:30 Democratic National Convention
11:00 Soupy's On
11:15 The Crash "Blackmailed"

CKLW 9-CBC/DuMont Windsor
12:25pm Billboard
12:30 Cartoons
12:45 Myrtle Labbitt
1:00 News
1:05 Shoppers Show "Dr. Christian Meets the Women"/"They Came by Night"
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 Justice Colt "Colorado"
5:00 Dance Party
6:00 Count of Monte Cristo "Portuguese Affair"
6:30 Million Dollar Movie "Adventure in Washington"
8:00 China Smith "Devil in the Godowon"
8:30 Who's the Guest?
9:00 St. Nicholas Boxing: 10-round middleweight action between Willie Troy (DC/33-5-1, 23 KO) and Jerry Luedee (New Haven CT/20-3, 11 KO; Chris Schenkel is ringside with the call)
9:45 Sports Reel
10:00 News/Weather
10:15 Baseball Hall of Fame (Joe Black)
10:30 Times Square Playhouse "Leopards in Lightning"
11:00 Good Neighbor Theater "Foreman Went to France"

WSPD 13-NBC/CBS/ABC Toledo
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Of All Things
9:30 Arthur Godfrey Time
10:00 Valiant Lady
10:15 Love of Life
10:30 Strike It Rich
11:00 Home Cooking
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
noon Democratic National Convention
3:00 Brighter Day
3:15 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Linkletter's House Party
4:15 As the World Turns
4:45 Fun Farm
5:15 Cartoon Carnival
5:30 Voice of Labor
5:45 News
6:15 Lloyd Thaxton
6:30 Robin Hood "The Sheriff's Boots"
7:00 Burns & Allen
7:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
8:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
8:30 Democratic National Convention
10:30 Evening Varieties
11:00 News
11:10 Les Paul & Mary Ford
11:15 Featurette
11:30 Navy Log
mid. Midnight Mirror
12:30 News

WTVS 56-Edu Detroit
7pm Notes on Music
7:30 America in the Making
8:00 Hints for the Home
8:30 World of Stamps
9:00 Today's Student
9:30 American History "How There Happened to Be American History"
 
Bluenoser said:
from TV Guide-Detroit edition

noon Democratic National Convention (opening session from Chicago's Imperial Ampitheatre)
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I think that's a typo. Should be the International Ampitheatre.
It was an arena near the stockyards where they used to hold livestock shows.
(I suppose so the politicians wouldn't be the only ones creating a stench in there?)

That was one of my least happy TV memories growing up in the pre-cable era.
Every fourth summer when all the channels would be filled with politicians blathering away
every night.
 
the International Ampitheatre.
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The site of the '68 Democratic convention as well. Weren't the '56 conventions the first time Huntley & Brinkley were together on air? As far as the other 2 networks, I'm guessing Douglas Edwards anchored CBS, and John Daly anchored ABC.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
Weren't the '56 conventions the first time Huntley & Brinkley were together on air?
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Sure was. In fact that was what brought the impetus for NBC, by October, to have them replace John Cameron Swayze in what was originally called NBC News (some distinct title, eh?) before adopting The Huntley-Brinkley Report title around 1958.
 
All told, Chicago's International Ampitheatre hosted five major political conventions over the years: the 1952 Republican & Democratic conventions, the 1956 Democratic Convention (as has been noted), the 1960 Republican Convention and the 1968 Democratic Convention.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Bluenoser said:
from TV Guide-Detroit edition

noon Democratic National Convention (opening session from Chicago's Imperial Ampitheatre)
Click to expand...

I think that's a typo. Should be the International Ampitheatre.
It was an arena near the stockyards where they used to hold livestock shows.
(I suppose so the politicians wouldn't be the only ones creating a stench in there?)

That was one of my least happy TV memories growing up in the pre-cable era.
Every fourth summer when all the channels would be filled with politicians blathering away
every night.
Click to expand...

You're correct...should read International Ampitheatre.
 
The listing for CKLW-TV includes,
"9:00 St. Nicholas Boxing: 10-round middleweight action between Willie Troy (DC/33-5-1, 23 KO) and Jerry Luedee (New Haven CT/20-3, 11 KO; Chris Schenkel is ringside with the call)"t

CKLW-TV had DuMont affiliation from the time it signed on in 1954 but DuMont was already a dying network--it stopped feeding regular entertainment series in the spring of 1955, limiting itself to a few remaining boxing and football feed commitments through the summer of 1956 before totally shutting down. This may have been the last, or nearly the last, program ever fed under the DuMont Network banner, after ten years of effort to build a network to rival CBS and NBC. Why they failed while ABC and later Fox succeeded has been the subject of books, lectures andwebsites and would take too much time and space to discuss here. Pittsburgh broadcast historian Clarke Ingram says the core of DuMont, stations WABD (later WNEW-TV and now WNYW) in New York, WTTG in Washington and KTTV in Los Angeles, later became first the Metromedia company under John Kluge, and later the core of Rupert Murdoch's Fox Network--so in a way DuMont lives as the Fox TV Network and all its O&Os today.
 
True, Chet and David emerged as the new news stars
at the '56 conventions, thanks to their more informal
approach (as opposed to CBS). However, CBS won the
ratings with its team of Cronkite, Murrow, and Sevareid.
ABC had John Daly and radio veteran Quincy Howe.

Interestingly, on the August 12, 1956, broadcast of
"What's My Line?" the Mystery Guests were Cronkite,
Sevareid, Edwards, Robert Trout, and Charles Collingwood,
there to promote CBS's coverage of the Democratic Convention.
Gil Fates has pointed out that CBS refused permission for ABC
to air this spot on the 25th-anniversary "Line" special in 1975;
CBS's explanation was that its newspeople weren't allowed to
appear on entertainment shows (this is before Dan Rather started
showing up on Letterman); also, the '56 conventions were long over,
"What's My Line?" was no longer on CBS, so what was the point?
(Would have been nice, to see one more time, five news legends
together.)
 
True. Murrow and Sevareid provided commentary from
a separate booth. As for Daly and Howe, I've seen a
picture of them side-by-side in Barbara Matusow's history
of network news to the early '80s, "The Evening Stars."

Re the appearance of the CBS News team on "What's My
Line?": I wonder what went through Daly's mind, knowing he'd
be up against them?
 
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