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Retro:Early days of WXEL-TV 9 Cleveland (WJW-TV 8) 1949, 1950, 1952

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Tim L

I am doing a 2-part series on my Cleveland Classic Media Blog about WJW's 60th anniversary..Included in these are three program schedules from the very early days of WXEL, which became WJW-TV in April 1956..

Wed/Thurs. December 14-15, 1949 before official sign-on(December 19)-Cleveland Press

December 14
6PM Small Fry-DuMont
6:30 Magic Cottage-DuMont
7PM Captain Video
7:30 At Your Service-Betty Craig

December 15
2PM Shoppers Matinee

Tuesday, December 26, 1950-Canton Repository

12:35 News-Music
12:45 Telenews-DuMont
1PM Village Fair-John FitzGerald
2PM Alice Weston
2:30 Darts For Dollars
3PM Impromptu
3:30 Cover Girl
4PM Homemaker's Exchange
4:30 Vanity Fair
5PM Lucky Pup-CBS
5:15 Chuck Wagon
6PM Small Fry-DuMont
6:30 Evening News
6:45 Who's News?
7PM Captain Video-Probably the longest running DuMont show on WXEL-Till April 2 1955 when WEWS took over for its last few weeks
7:30 Story Theater-DuMont
8PM Football Game of Week
8:30 Johns Hopkins Science Review-DuMont
9PM Cavalcade of Bands-DuMont
10PM Star Time-DuMont
11PM News
11:20 Wrestling-DuMont


Tuesday, April 22, 1952-TV Today Magazine

11AM News-Ted Anthony
11:15 Film Shorts
Noon The Egg And I-CBS
12:15 Love Of Life-CBS
12:30 Search For Tomorrow-CBS
12:45 Film Shorts
1PM Alice Weston
1:30 Midday Movie-Allen (Alan) Freed and Grant Wilson
3:30 Cheerful House
4PM Pause For Pleasure-Randy Carlyle
4:30 Film Shorts
4:45 Comedy Carnival
5PM Gaylord Hauser-Nutrition
5:15 Dinner Winner-Rena/Bob Ledyard
5:30 Desert Deputy
6:30 Sports Desk-Gail Egan/John Fitzgerald
6:45 Evening News-Bob Rowley
7PM Captain Video-DuMont
7:30 Beulah-ABC
8PM Life Is Worth Living-DuMont
8:30 Keep Posted-DuMont
9PM Battle Of The Ages-DuMont
9:30 Quick On The Draw-DuMont
10PM Danger-CBS
10:30 Boston Blackie-Syndicated
11PM Warren Guthrie News
11:10 Today's Top Story-Sanford I. Whitman
11:15 Sports Final
11:20 Nite Owl Theatre

Original Post, including Newspaper articles on The WXEL opening..

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2009/12/wjw-60th-anniversarythe-wxel-years.html
 
In "Watching TV," Castleman and Podrazik say that "Captain
Video" ended April 1, 1955 (a Friday, which I know because my
parents' first anniversary was the following day). So did WEWS
pick up the show early in 1955?

Also, was/is Gail Egan a man or woman? I've heard of one man
who spelled his name that way: Gail Compton, who hosted a
DuMont show called "The Pet Shop." But if Gail Egan was female,
somebody was light-years ahead of the curve re news anchors!
 
bpatrick said:
In "Watching TV," Castleman and Podrazik say that "Captain
Video" ended April 1, 1955 (a Friday, which I know because my
parents' first anniversary was the following day). So did WEWS
pick up the show early in 1955?

Also, was/is Gail Egan a man or woman? I've heard of one man
who spelled his name that way: Gail Compton, who hosted a
DuMont show called "The Pet Shop." But if Gail Egan was female,
somebody was light-years ahead of the curve re news anchors!
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Hello bpatrick:

Actually, there was a mistake in dates on my part..The Channel 5 (to ABC)/8 (To CBS) affiliation switch took place March 2, 1955, rather than April 2..By this time, Captain Video was airing at 5:00 and in fact, was carried Monday, Feb. 28, and Tues. March 1 by both Channels 5 and 8..WEWS likely carried Captain Video to the end of the series..It might have been the only DuMont show they aired, as more DuMont shows were being canceled by this time..

Regarding Gail Egan:

Here's a preview of one of the first WXEL programs in the Cleveland Press, 12-14-49, With an accompanying picture of Mr. Egan:

SPORTS REVUE:
A 15 minute sports coverage feature by Gail Egan. Egan was with the Canadian Broadcasting Company as a sportscaster for 12 years. He once was a scout and publicity director for the Cleveland Barons (AHL) and now handles public relations for the Cleveland Recreation Department..

So Gail Egan was definitely male..
 
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